DarkLinkage
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Just some feedback here: When zoomed in, the text overlaps the links in the contact section.
Edit: This only occurred at 110% and 125%. I'm using chrome.
Why do you feel like a complete beginner? What websites have you built?
Haha, I feel completely out of my depth here. In a good way
I've been learning web development for about 2 years now. I have a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery despite not going to university. However I still feel like a complete beginner haha.
Will the courses on code academy help me get rid of had habits I may have/help me wire "cleaner code"?
Love this community already.
Hey guys, wonder if you could give me a bit of help here. I'm currently doing Codecademy's intro website building course on the CSS section. It's step 9/10 i'm stuck on and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I've posted a topic on their forums but thought might as well do it here as well.
Basically, I need to insert a #footer and a text size value for it. One of the steps was inserting the #footer and I got that right, the next was the size of 0.75rem, so my code looks like...
#footer {font-size: 0.75rem}
And it just won't let me continue. So what am i doing wrong? The error message i'm getting is 'Did you give the #footer selector a font-size property of 0.75rem?'
Hmm, maybe the semicolon after the font statement?
Edit: I misread you post and yup, you were right! I'd left off the semicolon after 0.75rem, d'oh! Thanks a lot!
Leaving the semicolon out of the last statement of a block is perfectly valid CSS though ¯_(ツ_/¯
Not that it's a good practice in anyway though
As an aside, this should feel overwhelming as fuck at first right?
Could you not just create a password protected page and set up your custom fields? Or are the documents intended to be individualized for each user?Question....
What is an easy to use Customer Area plugin for Wordpress that I can customize with Advanced Custom Fields and also allow documents to be added to the clients page?
So basically what I am looking for is client will enter their username and password and that would take them to a single page that contained basic information and at the bottom of said page there would be link(s) to documents for them. The client will not be uploading anything, just viewing.
Let me know if what I am explaining is confusing and I will try to simplify/explain.
Possibly, but then don't you have to provide the url instead of just having a static login page that would take the clients to their pages?Could you not just create a password protected page and set up your custom fields? Or are the documents intended to be individualized for each user?
Possibly, but then don't you have to provide the url instead of just having a static login page that would take the clients to their pages?
I think I may have found a plugin that could be work but I need to mess with it more, it is called Client Portal.
More suggestions are always welcome though. Also tutorial links are really helpful.
Leaving the semicolon out of the last statement of a block is perfectly valid CSS though ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Not that it's a good practice in anyway though
Decided to pick up Javascript a little over a month and a half ago and made a Chrome weather extension. It's not public at the moment as I want to clean up the source code a bit and I need to hide my api key for my weather source. You learn quite a bit when you actually create something. I used plain JS (no jQuery) but I'm picking up Angular at the moment.
Things I picked up/did when creating the extension:
Manipulated the DOM
Executed XHR requests (tested the jQuery version as well just to see how much less code I need). Since I received back as a response a JSON object it was good to see how to manipulate the data that I needed.
Got a better handle on CSS as I created my own design elements (sizing was important when it came to sections for the hourly and daily forecast). I was initially just going to use Twitter Bootstrap but decided there's no reason to use that when I can write my own CSS and have a much smaller file.
Used loops to iterate through arrays in the JSON object. This is simple enough but it was good to use a loop in practice versus just writing a loop because a tutorial went through one. Each iteration would add the design elements and data for the hourly and daily forecasts.
Wrote some of my own functions based on the data that was received to convert to data I want to show the user (date and time, wind direction, heat index temperature, etc). The location is retrieved from the browser as latitude and longitude coordinates.
I can use what I wrote and put it into a demo website as well so it doesn't need to be just a Chrome extension. I might as well turn it into an Android app while I'm at it. (haven't done Java in 10+ years since using it in my first CS class)
I feel have a good grasp of Javascript now so time to look at Angular and maybe other frameworks. I did all the development locally on my pc but I also have an Amazon cloud EC2 that's set up with a LAMP stack for a demo website, and I also put Node and Express on their as well. I figure I can use Express to write my own API (another learning experience) which will retrieve the api key for my weather source (as I don't want to leave the api key in my source code). It looks like Angular 2 will be a big departure from Angular 1.xx and Facebook's React is picking up steam as well.
Here's a screenshot of my extension (it's been clicked so it's expanded for viewing): http://imgur.com/O8p7Xww
If youre working in a professional service firm in 21st century, you should hire a designer and of course spend some money on hosting. How is that even a question. 1&1 should be good enough for that. We have much bigger clients hosted on 1&1.Hey there, I've been hired in a small consulting firm as "web strategist" and general errand boy, and one of the things I am tasked to do is improving the firm's website to make it more visible, more useful and generally better.
This is the website in question: https://www.centrofinanzagevolata.it/ . It's not great, but it's not so bad considering my boss made it himself with little to no knowledge. The problem is that it's a technical mess, and it doesn't let me do anything with it's code in terms of SEO, analytics, layout etc.
How could it be, you ask? Freaking 1&1 and its website editor, that's why. I would make a whole new site, but 1&1 wants to get paid to host a second site, and I don't want to delete this one just to "make space" just yet.
How do I act in this sort of situations? Do we just cough up the money? Would it be worth the hassle to migrate hosts?
How do I act in this sort of situations? Do we just cough up the money? Would it be worth the hassle to migrate hosts?
I figure I can use Express to write my own API (another learning experience) which will retrieve the api key for my weather source (as I don't want to leave the api key in my source code).
That won't really work; you'll either need to pick one of two:
1. Supply the API key from the user (for example when installing the extension)
or
2. Supply the API key to your own backend, which fetches (and preprocesses if needed) the data for your extension.
Number 2 won't really scale if you want to serve your extension to other users though.
How do I act in this sort of situations? Do we just cough up the money? Would it be worth the hassle to migrate hosts?
It's not coughing up money, it's spending the measly few dollars a month on real hosting, and then putting a budget into your website.
If the website is not important to the business at all, then FreeWebz 1&1 is fine, but if your boss says that he wants to drive sales through the website, then he has to budget for that.
Does anybody have good books/resources I can read about web UI/UX and good design etc?
Picked up some web hosting the other day to try and get an art portfolio up. I maintained a website for fun throughout highschool but it's been awhile. I don't know any javascript at all so this should be interesting .
You don't need js to build a website, so you are fine
Picked up some web hosting the other day to try and get an art portfolio up. I maintained a website for fun throughout highschool but it's been awhile. I don't know any javascript at all so this should be interesting .
Does anybody have good books/resources I can read about web UI/UX and good design etc?
QA (not game QA, software QA) or data analysis are good ways to get in.I'm looking at trying to get into web development (front end). How did you all end up breaking into the industry and getting employed? Jobs in bioscience are increasingly difficult to get so I am looking to get into something which my degree isn't in.
On the job hunt and so far I've had 3 companies contact me saying they're interested and asking for my resume or asking follow up questions. Yet now I've yet to get a response email after sending them my response/resume. Now I'm starting to think they see my resume and background and choose not to move forward without saying a word .
I'm looking at trying to get into web development (front end). How did you all end up breaking into the industry and getting employed? Jobs in bioscience are increasingly difficult to get so I am looking to get into something which my degree isn't in.
I am in desperate need of assistance getting a website up and running. This all seems so overly complicated I'm pulling my hair out.
I'm an artist looking to set up a URL. I have registered a URL, and I have ordered hosting from a separate company. I need to know, how do I build my site, and how does the URL know to look to my hosting company to know what to display?
I'm very frustrated at this point, I want to get something up but even the help support at the companies aren't being much help. Where do I start?
Your hosting company should give you directions on how to edit the dns, which is what you'll need to do at your registrar (company you registered your domain with). You will 'point' the domain name at the hosting company.
Here's some more info on dns from Hostgator's website so it should give you an idea: https://support.hostgator.com/artic...ervers/how-do-i-change-my-dns-or-name-servers