Christopher Merle

Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee.

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These are my posts imported from LiveJournal.

More CSS (Actually CSS3)

November 24, 2015 /

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have come along way since I started doing web development. I had to design a simple front page for a client and, boy, howdy, is that hard to do. Trying to be minimalist requires a lot of thought. Also the this front page has to be responsive (look good on all devices and adjust to their parameters) that is the same content has to look good for a mobile device such as an iPhone, a tablet such as an iPad, or a laptop such as a MacBook Pro. Alternately, you could say Android, Android tablet, and Windows 10 laptop.

I finally pulled down The Book of CSS3 off the shelf and started reading it (I purchased it last spring). I learned all about media queries which allows a single page to adjust to the device it’s being viewed on. Each release of CSS standards comes with a number. The first version was CSS then CSS 2 then CSS2.1 and now CSS3. So what is a cascading stylesheet. It tells the browser how to render a web page. It tells it what fonts to show and what size, whether it’s normal, bold, italics, underline, or strikethrough. Or a combination of all of them. It can do much much more.

I’ve got a deadline for this site. I can get it done, but it is mentally exhausting. Still, it beats delivering pizzas.

CSS

November 20, 2015 /

The image overlaying the thumbnail can be translucent which I don’t want. The overlaid image can be solid where it isn’t transparent but then you can’t click on the thumbnail. I’ve tried various rearrangements of the items in the templates for the page. I can have one desirable trait but not both. HTML doesn’t allowed nested links but I removed those.

Of course this was all to solve the problem of even being able to tap on the thumbnail so it would take you to a new page on a mobile device which has a touchscreen. It needs to be a double tap solution. Because on a computer where you have hover with a mouse the text appears over the image. On mobile you tap and no text just goes to the new page. You need to be able to tap once to see the text then tap again to see the page. There are themes that actually do this. I may have to switch to one of them.

Paris

November 13, 2015 /

I won’t let some mass murderers in Paris ruin my little Friday the Thirteenth post. I just won’t. There is nothing inherently unlucky about the date. It is a superstition, and that is what I’m poking fun at. However, the attackers deliberately chose the date. It’s clear this had been planned for sometime given the terrible scale of it. I think it’s more likely they chose they day of the week for maximum casualties rather than the 13th per se.

It’ll take some time to figure out the details of what unfolded, but what I dread more is not the horrific details of what was carried out. It is the people who will use these events to promote whatever horrible agenda they have that have nothing to do with the attacks.

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