Tag: front-end development
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Observations on Squarespace Accessibility
Summary: Squarespace, like other no-code content management systems (CMS), is a common choice for people who want to easily create a website. Choosing Squarespace comes with pros and cons when making a site accessible for people with disabilities. Table of Contents: Disclaimer In this post, I share observations about a Squarespace website’s output and its…
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HTMHell Advent Calendar 2022
Did you know that Manuel Matuzovic’s HTMHell publishes an advent calendar in December? In case you missed the 2022 edition, you can spend your summer leisurely catching up on its 24 days of HTML goodness, as you wait for the next round this winter. Come to think of it, I need to catch up on…
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Exploring the Underrated Output Element
HTML’s output element is pretty amazing. I mean, honestly, HTML is pretty amazing, right? Many elements can just DO things, plus express their own purpose. The output‘s abilities are no less astounding. Think about. You put in some value, and there they are on the screen. To me, it’s like magic. In this post, I…
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Two New Shortcuts Added to My Web Design Toolbox
One perk about the web designer and developer life is that I’m always learning. Always. Today I learned how to… Quickly convert content to code Today I found myself pulling out the headphones, turning up the Moana soundtrack, and tediously beginning the manual process of copying content in between HTML tags. About a quarter of…
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Troubleshooting: Using JSON on IIS
Progressive web apps, also known as PWAs, are hot and happening right now. If you’ve been keeping up on web development in 2018, you’ll likely have heard about them. I’ve been learning about them most of the year through Udacity’s Mobile Web Specialist nanodegree program that I’m about to graduate from. To add icing to…
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A “Day” in the Life of This Web Designer
What I Do on the Daily According to the State of Alaska, I am classified as a Publications Specialist. To skip all boring narrative, I am a web and publications designer for the Alaska State Libraries, Archives, and Museums. To sum it up more, I design and maintain the webpages for my division. Additionally, I…
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From Float to Flexbox
It only took me until 2018 to finally apply flexbox to a project. Long after I’ve played with the new grid syntax, and continued to fall back on floats, I am finally coming around and learning flexbox. Each display value has its own strengths and quirks, but I’ll leave that for another blog post. Challenge…
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Text, SVG, or JPEG?
Web developers have a ton of design and implementation choices these days. And, as the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Recently, I was on a mission to create a custom heading for one of our division pages at work. Goal Replace the default LibGuides h1 for the page…
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Adding Styling to Multiple Elements
The nice thing about not having an actual programmer’s job is that I can experiment and contribute coding at work without the pressure of immediate product. A recent enhancement I got to work on while editing content on a page: changing the style of several form options that did not reference a file. function grayOptions(){…
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The Power of RegEx in Dreamweaver
Thanks to all my time spent this year on learning JavaScript, I’ve come to the conclusion that so many little things can be automated. And powerful programs, like Dreamweaver, are just waiting for its users to take advantage of their automation features. Today, while coding at work, I delete 64 hyperlink references that had been…
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