I’m not sure that this concept is universally understood. I figured that it is time to take a swing at it. According to w3schools, a block-level element always starts on a new line and takes up the full width available (stretches out to the left and right as far as it can). See the Pen …
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Back in 2012, I posted How to store JavaScript values persistently, locally (a post that is apparently a bit broken). I figured that it might be time to revisit the topic. Let’s start by looking at how to create and read cookies, first. See the Pen How to use cookies! by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on …
Continue reading "Cookies vs localStorage vs sessionStorage in JavaScript"I genuinely thought that I had covered this topic already. It appears that the closest that I came was “PHP: Fun with strings” (back in 2014), so let’s do it now? See the Pen String concatenation in JavaScript by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. The three methods that I’m using about are concat(), “[string 1] …
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One of the goals for JWS.app was for it to pull in activity from a bunch of sources and update itself. That is the reason why I created the “superfeed”. Let’s start by looking at its current state. See the Pen JWS.app – Superfeed (Before) by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. Getting the content from …
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I have never been fond of the footer on JWS.app but I’ve been unsure what to use, there. After addressing the elements at the top of the page, it makes sense to turn our attention to the very bottom of the page. Considering how much we have leveraged Bulma so far, it also makes sense …
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Previously, we have looked at the navigation bar, the hero image, and the combination of the two. I figured that next natural step is to look at how to style the content on the page. I want to add some sort of visually pleasing container and Bulma‘s box class seems to be a good option. …
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Previously, we looked at using Bulma to improve the nav bar and we looked at ways we could improve the hero image. I figured that this week, we would combine the two. See the Pen JWS.app – Hero with Nav by Joe Steinbring (@steinbring) on CodePen. I kind of like this look but the nav …
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Last week, we looked at more ways to tweak the nav bar on JWS.app. This week, I figured that we would move down to the hero image. The current hero image is dynamically generated based upon a subset of images on photos.jws.app. It doesn’t look great, though. See the Pen JWS.app – Hero (Before) by Joe Steinbring …
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Last week, we looked at two ways to fix the nav on JWS.app. For the first option, we simply added an additional header that displays when the screen width gets narrow enough. For the second option, we introduced a hamburger menu. This week, let’s look at two new options. The first of this week’s options …
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Back in April, I posted about creating JWS.app and I knew at the time that there were issues with it. This new “Fixing JWS.app” series is all about addressing those issues. The first thing that we are fixing is the nav bar. Let’s look at what we are dealing with.
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