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Eps 38: CSS Positioning

Norm — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:22:49 +0000

The position property specifies the type of positioning method used for an element.

There are five different position values: Static, Relative, Fixed, Absolute, Sticky

Properties: top, bottom, left, right, z-index, clip (Clips an absolutely positioned element)

Static

HTML elements are positioned static by default. Static positioned elements are not affected by the top, bottom, left, and right properties. An element with position: static; is not positioned in any special way; it is always positioned according to the normal flow of the page:

Relative

positioned relative to its normal position. Setting the top, right, bottom, and left properties of a relatively-positioned element will cause it to be adjusted away from its normal position. Other content will not be adjusted to fit into any gap left by the element.

Fixed

positioned relative to the viewport, which means it always stays in the same place even if the page is scrolled. The top, right, bottom, and left properties are used to position the element. A fixed element does not leave a gap in the page where it would normally have been located.

Absolute

positioned relative to the nearest positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the viewport, like fixed). However; if an absolute positioned element has no positioned ancestors, it uses the document body, and moves along with page scrolling.

Sticky

positioned based on the user’s scroll position. A sticky element toggles between relative and fixed, depending on the scroll position. It is positioned relative until a given offset position is met in the viewport – then it “sticks” in place (like position:fixed).

Overlapping Elements

When elements are positioned, they can overlap other elements. The z-index property specifies the stack order of an element (which element should be placed in front of, or behind, the others). An element can have a positive or negative stack order. An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a lower stack order.

Note: If two positioned elements overlap without a z-index specified, the element positioned last in the HTML code will be shown on top.

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/* CSS RESET https://dev.to/hankchizljaw/a-modern-css-reset-6p3 */
/* Box sizing rules */
*,*::before,*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

/* Remove default padding */
ul[class],ol[class] {
  padding: 0;
}

/* Remove default margin */
body,h1,h2,h3,h4,p,ul[class],ol[class],li,figure,figcaption,blockquote,dl,dd {
  margin: 0;
}

/* Reset default font size */
h1,h2,h3,h4,p,li,figcaption,blockquote,dl,dd {
	font-size: 10px;
}


/* Set core body defaults */
body {
  min-height: 100vh;
  scroll-behavior: smooth;
  text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
  line-height: 1.5;
}

/* Remove list styles on ul, ol elements with a class attribute */
ul[class],ol[class] {
  list-style: none;
}

/* A elements that don't have a class get default styles */
a:not([class]) {
  text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;
}

/* Make images easier to work with */
img {
  max-width: 100%;
  display: block;
}

/* Natural flow and rhythm in articles by default */
article > * + * {
  margin-top: 1em;
}

/* Inherit fonts for inputs and buttons */
input,button,textarea,select {
  font: inherit;
}

/* Remove all animations and transitions for people that prefer not to see them */
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  * {
    animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
    scroll-behavior: auto !important;
  }
}

/* END CSS RESET */


#box-1 {
	display:block;
	border:1px solid #000;
	background: black;
	height: 500px;
	width:500px;
	margin: 10% 0 0 10%;
}
#box-1 h2 {
	font-size: 3em;
	color: white;
}
#box-2 {
	display:block;
	border:1px solid #000;
	background: white;
	height: 350px;
	width:350px;
}
#box-2 h2 {
	font-size: 3em;
	Color: black;
}
#box-3 {
	display:block;
	border:1px solid #000;
	background: purple;
	height: 175px;
	width:175px;
}
#box-3 h2 {
	font-size: 2.5em;
	color: white;
}

#box-4 {
	display:block;
	border:1px solid #000;
	background: orange;
	height: 1500px;
	width:500px;
	margin: 10% 0 0 10%;
}

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Eps 37: Welcome and WordPress Tutorial

Norm — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:19:44 +0000

The first episode in quite a long time. The first 10 minutes or so are a general welcome statement and update while the last 35 mins are a tutorial on how to edit and update WordPress posts and pages. I’m a bit rusty so hopefully it’s not too hard on your ears.

Look for more shows coming soon.

WordPress and Gutenberg Tutorial by Packerland Websites: https://youtu.be/dKOgg7ULPB4
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p5masyrFaW
Patreon Support: Coming Soon
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Website: SchaffenCreative.com
Packerland Websites: PackerlandWebsites.com

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Eps 36: Document Object Model (DOM)

Norm — Wed, 09 May 2018 00:52:50 +0000

Document Object Model (DOM)

Taken from w3schools.com – The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document.”

The W3C DOM standard is separated into 3 different parts:

Core DOM – standard model for all document types
XML DOM – standard model for XML documents
HTML DOM – standard model for HTML documents

The HTML DOM is a standard object model and programming interface for HTML. It defines:

The HTML elements as objects
The properties of all HTML elements
The methods to access all HTML elements
The events for all HTML elements

In other words: The HTML DOM is a standard for how to get, change, add, or delete HTML elements.

Viewed as a hierarchical tree – image is in the w3schools link attached above

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Eps 35: Fixed Position Footer

Norm — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:39:38 +0000

What is a fixed position footer?

The concept of taking a footer that more than likely doesn’t sit at the bottom of a screen comfortably and forcing it to stay put at the bottom of the screen.
This is ideal if you have information there that you would like people to have a constant view on. Ie, social links, navigation links, contact information

#footer {
  position:fixed;
  left:0px;
  bottom:0px;
  Height:30px;
  width:100%;
}

Flexbox – via CSS Tricks by Chris Coyier

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Eps 34: Website SEO in 2018

Norm — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:40:24 +0000

Website SEO

Write your code correctly
- H1, h2, h3, p, table, use alt tag on images – 2 for 1 also impacts adaptability standards (screen readers and assistance devices
Mobile first
- Biggest push and newest standards are trending towards (or in most cases already implemented) creating a mobile friendly and responsive website
- Tougher to do using wordpress vs frameworks like Bootstrap, but always test your mobile views before clicking publish
- DO NOT USE m. for your mobile site, make your site responsive (scalable)
Link building
- Find ways to get other websites to link to your site. If you are building websites for others the easiest way would be to add a “Designed and developed by” statement in the bottom corner of the site with a link back to you
- Write guest blog posts for other sites
Have good content
- Put enough on your page to get your point across.
  - A few sentences isn’t going to cut it
- Make sure the content is worthwhile
  - Images, videos, graphs etc
Use a security certificate
- Google emphasizing that now
- Get one from your hosting service
- Could be free like dreamhost or 30$ like ipage for a basic certificate.
  - If you do any type of money collection on your page ie taking credit card numbers etc then splurge on the appropriate version. More expensive but gives peace of mind
  - Not necessary if you are being a portal to services like PayPal
Bounce Rate
- Make people want to stay on your site
- The faster someone clicks off your site the more it will affect your SEO
Resources

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Eps 33: Testing Sites

Norm — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:16:37 +0000

Importance of a testing site

You never want to put your code out on an active website if it hasn’t been tested first.
1. Most importantly – Can break any or all aspects of what is already out
2. May not show up
3. Content may not be ready to go live, but you still want to see what it’s going to look like or stage it for release
A couple different ways
1. Use a subdomain as your testing site ideal for hand-coded websites as well as wordpress sites (hand-coded sites is easier to transfer via ftp vs redoing the work for wordpress sites)
  1. Schaffencreative.com would have a subdomain of testing.schaffencreative.com
  2. Do everything on the testing site while using a “coming soon” page or plugin on the real domain
2. Use GitHub to manage hand-coded work (useful links below)
  1. Using GIT to Manage a Live Website
  2. What is GITHub And Why Should Your Digital Team Use It.
3. Use a WordPress Plugin
  1. I’ve never explored this option
4. Use your local machine (computer) to create and test your site
  1. Should be for more experienced developers only
  2. Labor intensive to set up and get running
  3. Resources;
    1. Set up a local server
    2. How to create a local WordPress site using XAMPP

Other excellent resource: How to Create a WordPress Staging Site for All Your WordPress Testing Needs
To sum up: ALWAYS TEST YOUR CODE FIRST

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Eps 32: Custom WordPress Homepage

Norm — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:23:27 +0000

Steps:
1.)    Login via FTP
2.)    Find the main index page of your theme
3.)    Download via FTP

SAVE THE ORIGINAL COPY AS A SEPARATE FILE SO YOU CAN EASILY REPLACE ANY CHANGES/ERRORS

4.) Edit page accordingly. For example:

Remove sidebar code
Remove main page code
Add new sections using html – basic HTML, Bootstrap or any other framework compatible with WordPress
Test your changes, experiment with removing different sections
Search online for tutorials on how to utilize WordPress code to its fullest extent

5.) Save document as front-page.php

Wordpress looks for front-page.php if it exists and uses that as home

6.)    Upload new front-page document to the root of your wordpress site where index.php lives
7.)    Login to wordpress
8.)    Go to pages

Create a new page
Call it whatever you want

9.) Go to your settings section.

In settings there is an option to select a specific home page and a specific blog page.

10.) Select whatever page you created as your specific home page
11.) DON’T FORGET TO SAVE YOUR SETTINGS
12.) You are now ready to go to your created page and add content.
Next week I’ll discuss how to add multiple editable sections to your page editor so you can work around custom content, or simply just have separate chunks of content/code.

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Podcast Update

Norm — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:18:15 +0000

This is a brief update on the future of the podcast, my brand (TNPW Design) and projects coming down the road.

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Eps 31: SASS MixIn – Talking HTML

Norm — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:46:48 +0000

A mixin allows developers to create reusable CSS blocks. This helps avoiding writing repetitive code. Also allows to make quick changes without searching code for every instance.

@mixin image-rotate { margin: 20px auto 0 auto; -moz-transition: all 0.8s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.8s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all 0.8s ease-in-out; -ms-transition: all 0.8s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.8s ease-in-out; }
@mixin image-rotate-hover { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg); -o-transform: rotate(360deg); -ms-transform: rotate(360deg); transform: rotate(360deg); }
img#norm { @include image-rotate; }
img#norm:hover{ @include image-rotate-hover; }

Sitepoint example

A mixin can take Sass data values as arguments. These values are specified when you define the mixin and given when you @include the mixin. The arguments are then passed to the mixin as variables. Arguments are included in a comma separated list enclosed in parentheses after the mixin name.
@mixin headline ($color, $size) { color: $color; font-size: $size; }
h1 { @include headline(green, 12px); }
h1 { color: green; font-size: 12px; }
h2 { @include headline(red, 10px); }
h2 { color: red; font-size: 10px; }
@mixin border-radius($radius) { -webkit-border-radius: $radius; -moz-border-radius: $radius; -ms-border-radius: $radius; border-radius: $radius; }

Compiling program & link (Koala)

Where to learn about SASS – http://sass-lang.com/

Codeacademy has a SASS class

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Eps 30: SASS Basics – Talking HTML

Norm — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:45:09 +0000

What is SASS?

Considered an extension of CSS. I consider it a streamlined version of CSS.

How it works

Set up on your personal system – I use Koala to compile my code
- Done locally then uploaded to the server via Filezilla
Create a .SCSS file
Write ANY CSS code as you normally would
Add the SASS styling code as you see fit
- variables
- mixins
- Code Nesting
  - Putting code inside of code
- imports
  - Get into it in a future eps
Save file
Compile code
- may do so automatically once SCSS file is saved.
- Compiling transforms your SCSS file into a CSS file

Benefits

Streamline CSS writing – The one change will be distributed accross to all the corresponding instances of whatever it is you changed.

Negatives

You have to learn how to use SASS
You have to figure out how to get it to work on your computer, which can be a feat if you aren’t Computer savvy

Variables

Not usable in standard CSS
SASS integrates a way to create variables which then translates to regular CSS when compiled

$primary-color: #113e6d; /* BREWER BLUE */ $secondary-color: #c1c4c4; /* COWBOY GRAY */ $tertiary-color: #ffbf00; /* PACKER GOLD */ $quaternary-color: #294239; /* PACKER GREEN */ $quinary-color: #b70101; /* BADGER RED */ $font-stack1: 'Merienda One', cursive; $font-stack2: 'Kite One', sans-serif; $font-stack3: 'Sintony', sans-serif;

body {
background-color: $primary-color;
font-family: $font-stack3;
font-size: 62.5%;
}

#center {
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: $secondary-color;
width: 800px;
}

Compiling program & link (Koala)

Where to learn about SASS – http://sass-lang.com/

Codeacademy has a class

talking html Archives ⋆ Schaffen Creative

Eps 38: CSS Positioning

Static

Relative

Fixed

Absolute

Sticky

Overlapping Elements

BOX 1

BOX 2

BOX 3

Eps 37: Welcome and WordPress Tutorial

Eps 36: Document Object Model (DOM)

Document Object Model (DOM)

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Eps 35: Fixed Position Footer

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Eps 34: Website SEO in 2018

Website SEO

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Website: https://www.schaffencreative.com

Eps 33: Testing Sites

Importance of a testing site

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Eps 32: Custom WordPress Homepage

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Website: https://www.schaffencreative.com

Podcast Update

Eps 31: SASS MixIn – Talking HTML

Eps 30: SASS Basics – Talking HTML

What is SASS?

How it works

Benefits

Negatives

Variables

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