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Dave on Buttons
This article was my first article to prove a toggle on display/hide. You can see the widget below/overleaf. … Read More
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Dave on Using modals on this site.
I found the modals a fab way of keeping pages tidy and when writing about DnD games they allow me to hide the hints. i found some examples, and created a page with three modals, which now seem to only display the 3rd. I would like to fix that as I think I will/might use the technique to hide the motions in “Energy, Climate Change and Just Transition”. Anyway, here are my notes and links Read More
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Dave on Dynamic Styles in HTML
I was working with Stylish and came across and article that <DIV> tags should be avoided. Stylish uses IDs and CLASSes to change the look & feel Why avoid these elements? A second thought is how can one use buttons to change the look and feel of a page by applying different styles? Do you still need javascript? Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on RSS Autodiscovery
I needed to check my notes on RSS autodiscovery; I wrote about it in passing in my article on Venus, and on returning found this article by Pete Freitag. The key idiom is to add a <link> tag in the <head> section of your html page. Here are more notes … Read More
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Dave on Responsive web sites using CSS
I decided to simplify my site at davelevy.cc and make it look like a linktr.ee page. This is best done using CSS and so I used some very simple HTML, and a bit more complicated CSS. I used the viewport declarations and @media queries. (It’s not perfect yet and needs some more work). Here are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on NEC blogs, an aggregator
I made an aggregation of the NEC blogs I could find, it’s not finished as I need to install some margins, make it responsive and possibly reposition the meta panels. I looked at my snip, Planet (Venus) themes (CSS) and revised it slightly, otherwise here are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on Scroll bars in HTML Boxes
I am exploring text scrollbar. Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Static page web sites
I came across a video that suggested using google drive as a web hosting solution. This seemed quite a neat idea. I need to examine if I lose anything by not having a web server in-front of it, probably not; there is one which is run and configured by Google. It would however require a static page site. Another reason for having a look at these. Here are my notes. Read More
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Dave on Donating with Gocardless
A British payment processor for managing direct debits accessible it seems to charities and maybe political parties. Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Flash
It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes. Read More
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Dave on HUGO
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Unicode in Python
It’s a very long time since I have had to deal with binary code translations, but when dealing with HTML and JSON with Python, I need to get to grips with it. The € symbol for instance requires the extended character set support and rss should be written in utf-8. This page collects the notes I made in learning about Python’s support for unicode/ascii translations. Read More
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Dave on Rendering New Age Video
While winding myself up to play NWN2, I started experimenting with image morphing software, to see if I could make a video of a Druid Shifter polymorphing into their werebear shape. Sadly I think I lost the pictures from the 1st attempt and so as I started the game I had another go. Anyway once created, there is the question of how to serve it on the web. This article documents the tools I used to create the video and the tools I used to host it on this page. Read More
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Dave on Pop Up Meerkats
For various reasons I wanted to make a pop-up on hover using a picture. I have implemented a pop up meerkat in the blog. This broke at some point and I returned to the problem in 2019 and found a new guide, and again in 2020 where I fixed some theme/wordpress bugs. This is now working, here are my notes in which I document the CSS and HTML … Read More
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Dave on Code Tag
A note on dealing with the code tag. It shows how it looks today and posses the alternatives of a blockquote class and a code rule. It was written while using the zbench theme. Read More