Archive of: html

• CSS Triangles and the Details Element

  March 19, 2021

  I cannot remember if I've ever made triangles or arrows with CSS before, so I thought I'd give that a shot today. I saw them mentioned in an article on CSS Tricks that talked about animating the arrow in the summary element. I took a shot at that as well.

• Variable Font Refresher

  March 18, 2021

  It has been a bit since I worked with a variable font, so I wanted to work with it again today to help myself remember how to make use of them. Jason Pamental's resources over on his website (rwt.io) are always helpful, so take a look!

• Full-bleeds in CSS Grid

  March 17, 2021

  A couple weeks or months ago I saw and briefly read over Josh Comeau's post about how to do a full-bleed using CSS grid. The layout features a full-bleed class to pop elements out of the grid and drawing more attention to them. I'd like to see how I could put something like that into place on my site, so I tried out the CSS Josh shared in his article.

• Fun link styling

  March 16, 2021

  While checking out the Field Notes website to see if the 50th edition had gone on sale yet, I noticed a fun bit of styling they did on a link within their dispatches page. Their version made use of an SVG, but I went with an HTML entity within my version. It's a nice little effect. Their team did a great job.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 5

  March 16, 2021

  

  This past week was full of new challenges. I got stumped a couple of times and had to decide to call it good on a few posts, but I think I learned quite a bit.

• Making Faces - SVG and JavaScript

  March 15, 2021

  After spending some time away from the code I wrote yesterday and reading a very useful article, I was able to finish this silly prototype. I noticed I had some pretty gnarly typos in my JavaScript yesterday that I'm embarassed to point out, but I am know going to make sure I double check my namespace URIs.

• Playing with an SVG of my old logo

  March 14, 2021

  How hard is it to add an SVG element that makes use of the USE element to place another instance of an SVG symbol into a document using JavaScript? Turns out, it's tough. At least for me at this time. So instead I made my old logo animate when hovered over. This probably won't work on mobile, but at this moment that's ok.

• Tricky times with CSS Grid

  March 13, 2021

  Moo Mini Cards are a great way to get some of your photos printed. They used to make a nifty frame, that fit about 20 or so cards, that allowed you to place mini cards inside in landscape or portrait orientation. I tried to recreate the style of the frame using CSS grid, and I am scratching my head at the moment. I don't think I'll get it working right today, so I'll give it a try some other time.

• Trying out a glitch animation

  March 12, 2021

  I wanted to try to make a glitch animation using CSS animation. It didn't turn out looking too good and my approach probably isn't the best way to do it. I'll give it another shot some other day.

• Animating with audio playback

  March 11, 2021

  Today I wanted to try animating text based on the time elapsed within an audio element. I was wondering if animating a transcript for a podcast could be an entertaining way to provide a more visual presentation for readers of a podcast's transcripts. Making animation an option and not a default would be how I would approach it. Adding in some animations could help add the podcasters' personalities to the transcripts. Now I just need to figure out how to load in a transcript to help with the animation process. What I did today was far too tedious and not ideal for a 30-plus minute podcast.