Archive of: March, 2021

• First attempt at a scroll indicator

  March 31, 2021

  I’ve seen a couple of websites that had a nifty progress bar that changed/updated as I read more of the page. I wondered how tough it might be to build something like that for my site using just CSS, and it turns out to be a little tricky. However, the talented web developer and writer, Preethi Sam, had a handy pen on CodePen that showed one way to build a CSS-only scroll progress bar. I hit a snag on making the markers change from black to essentially transparent until they hit the primary bar, and then I realized I hadn’t assigned a background-color to the parent element.

• Post listing mockup using a three column grid

  March 30, 2021

  Planning a site redesign can be a bit stressful, but it's a good time to review what you've previously made and improve the areas you know you can do better. Today I worked on a potential way of displaying posts on my index pages. I'm not sure if I like it, but I'll revisit it at a later time.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 7

  March 30, 2021

  I’m almost halfway through the 100 Days of Code challenge! I’ve learned a great deal through these posts and the material I’ve been studying.

• Counting the days

  March 29, 2021

  For today's post I wanted to figure out how to count the number of days between when I started the 100 Days of Code challenge and the current day. It was a bit tricky at first, but MDN and StackOverflow had some good info that I was able to wrap my head around. I'm almost half way there!

• Getting the hang of emoji

  March 28, 2021

  There is no way I will ever run out of things to learn about web development. I can't recall ever using emoji on a website, so I thought I'd learn how to do so today. It turns out to be quite easy and I'm looking forward to using it more in the future.

• Styling a newsletter signup

  March 27, 2021

  I have a grand vision for a newsletter signup that subtley or audaciously animates as the user fills out their email form and then clicks on the sign up button that becomes enabled once their email is validated. Today's test build is a decent starting point.

• Swiping Cards

  March 26, 2021

  I didn't quite get to the point I wanted to with today's post. I'll have to tackle this another day, but I like the concept of swiping through a stack of cards. Though it may have few uses, I think it might be a fun way to display information on certain types of webpages, or it may even be useful in a game.

• No Frills Card

  March 25, 2021

  Kept it simple with today's post after spending a few hours working throught my current track on Treehouse. I don't work much with cards, so I thought I'd get some practice in.

• Working more with loading JSON

  March 24, 2021

  I wanted to try building another layout for the data that I loaded in my Final Fetch post I did on the seventh day of this challenge. I learned how to reverse order list elements and tried out flex box's reversing as well.

• CSS Only Tooltip

  March 23, 2021

  Tooltips can be pretty handy and I've never given making my own a try. I tend to stick with the title attribute on elements and have never tried to build my own tooltips. I still need to tweak and improve the fade-out animation.