Today I Learned – Page 3 – HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP

scroll-margin-top

September 22, 2020February 25, 2020

What: CSS-Tricks just posted about this last Friday and since I could have used this that day (!) but didn’t find it until now, I’m adding a note here for myself:

You have a page with a table of contents (with links), or you have a one page website with in-page navigation and you have a fixed header — when you click a link the content scrolls up too far and is hidden by the fixed header. This is not a good user experience, and you can improve it with scroll-margin-top in Firefox and Chrome-based browsers…

Hosting Assets: Do It Yourself?

February 14, 2020February 12, 2020

I have started hosting more and more of the assets for sites, like web-fonts and JavaScripts libraries, stats, with the sites themselves instead of using a CDN / third-party service, largely because I was starting to feel squeamish about my role in helping tech giants follow you across the internet.

Always Include Widows and Orphans

November 6, 2020February 11, 2020

What: Widows and orphans in CSS refer to leftover lines at the beginning or ending of a page, when you’re printing a website, or to the leftover lines at the beginning or ending of a column when you’re creating a multi-column layout.

Joy

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020

I recently updated the links page on my personal website, something I hadn’t done in years, and there were some broken links there but I also stumbled again across entropy8.com.

Auto Sizing Font-sizes

February 11, 2020January 27, 2020

What: Changing the font-size and the line-height based on the width of the viewport but without using media queries, to create a smoother experience (with less work).

More on Color Tools

January 22, 2020

I recently wrote about the disappearance of 0to255 and what to replace it with and today I found another very versatile tool for color: calcolor.

Writing less.

February 11, 2020January 20, 2020

A nice old (2016) video of a talk by Heydon Pickering about writing less code. It’s smart, funny, and I agree.

0to255.com has disappeared

January 29, 2021January 17, 2020

EDIT: A full year after this post. I was still missing 0to255.com so much, I typed in the address in nostalgia and fain hope only to find the site back up and running. I am so happy! It’s still my favorite color tool, right along with coolors.co.

My favorite color tool for years and years, the one I’ve used most consistently of any of the tools I’ve used, has been offline now for three weeks and my best guess is that it’s gone for good. One day I used it, all was normal, no notices, nothing, and the next day, it was gone. It left me a little stunned.

More Flat-File CMSs to Choose From

November 14, 2024December 23, 2019

There is a first post with a list of flat-file CMSs and this is the second one. Of this list, I haven’t yet installed any, or tried to built a site, I’ve just tried a few of the demos. A quick list of flat-file content management systems with relevant notes and impressions added.

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