Archive

• Learning About Regular Expressions

  May 4, 2021

  Regular expressions seemed a bit difficult in the past, but I think I have a better handle on them after doing a course on Treehouse about regular expressions in JavaScript. Form validation is the first thing that comes to mind, but there are lots of uses I’m not aware of yet.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 12

  May 3, 2021

  The past week’s posts were mostly tweaks/iterations and practice, but I spent some time learning more about a handy Flexbox solution…

• Quick Post Prototype

  May 3, 2021

  I wanted to give myself a 30 to 45 minute challenge today and see what I could come up with in terms of a layout for a post. It’s not particular good, but it really made me want some ramen. Unfortunately I can’t go out and get the good kind right now, so I’ll have to stick with a instant Cup Noodle style cup of ramen from Seiyu.

• Neat responsive flexbox layout

  May 2, 2021

  If you haven’t heard of Heydon Pickering, I certainly recommending checking out his website heydownworks.com, and learning all about the things he makes regarding web design and development. I watched a video of Heydon’s CSS Day 2019 talk about the Flexbox Holy Albatross and tried it out in this post. I’m still trying to full wrap my head around it (I feel like I could make a flexbox joke there), but it’s definitely going to be handy in the future.

• CSS Grid Fidget Toy

  May 1, 2021

  I started today’s post off trying to find a way to rotate a grid of divs and try to find a way to make some of those divs stand upright within the rotated grid. That was a bit too difficult, and may not possible in the way I was hoping. So I ended up making this. I’m not sure what it is, but I tried using some JavaScript from my lightbox in another way.

• Possible responsive table solution

  April 30, 2021

  The first thing that came to mind yesterday when thinking about how to approach making a table responsive was to provide two versions of the table within the HTML of the page, and then simply show the appropriate version at certain breakpoints. I’m not sure how this might affect the accessibility of the tables if both are included, but I believe this may be a possible solution.

• Table Practice

  April 29, 2021

  It has been quite some time since I worked with tables in HTML, so I thought I’d get some practice in today. I’ve never made use of the caption element and I did not know about the caption-side property in CSS either. It’s always nice to learn new things about older elements and how I can style them via CSS. Note to self: I need to learn more about making responsive tables.

• Additional tweaks to my lightbox

  April 28, 2021

  I wanted to improve the transition for the lightbox and try out using backdrop-filter with it to see how it might look. I think I have a solid starting point to use this within my website for photo gallery pages, but I’ll have to see how things look and feel once I give it a try.

• Tiny tweaks to my Lightbox script

  April 27, 2021

  After yesterday’s small success, I wanted to try and improve the display of the lightbox for smaller screens or mobile devices. The image was not staying within the viewport yesterday, and the page was still scrollable. I wanted to disable scrolling while the lightbox is visible.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 11

  April 27, 2021

  Last week’s code posts were a lot of fun.