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Component better than expected

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Sunday June 2 2024

One of the components I am working on is a "read more" link (or button) that can display an arrow to the right, eased in and out on hover. I got it working very nicely. When you hover over the Show Quickpanel button, a really nice arrow (unicode object) is eased into position over a 1s transition...

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Working on components for My CSS Framework

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Saturday June 1 2024

Everytime I look at the code for some Bulma stuff, I come away with raised eyebrows. While working on a Help Screen panel (similar to Bulma's Quickview), I decided to have a look at the Bulma Quickview Javascript that I downloaded some time back. The file is nicely named as "bulma-quickview.css" and...

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Replacement for FontAwesome

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Friday May 31 2024

I have used FontAwesome for years now, many many years. When FontAwesome upgraded v4.7.0 to v5, I stayed with 4.7.0 for two reasons. The first is that the license for v5.0 was restrictive and introduced a pay model. The second is that the icons I needed were in 4.7.0 for free. Any additional icons I...

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CSS Blade update - GZIP info

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Friday May 31 2024

My CSS Framework, CSS Blade, is in its final days of development. The code is fairly complete. I have divided it into three sections:  Initialize section is a total of four files: Font Awesome loader ... I am fixing this to a local load of Font Awesome v4.7 with only one font (the WOTF2...

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UI Dark and Light mode

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Wednesday May 29 2024

Hehehehe ... sorry, starting this article with a hearty laugh. I'm not the only one making the switch away from bloated Bulma. Have a look at the Bulma "Expo" page on their website. They feature SaaSHub as a user? SaaSHub uses Bootstrap. Check it out, then make the switch yourself – find a slimmer...

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Oh the things we forget

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Tuesday May 28 2024

In designing all new components for my CSS Framework, I have an opportunity to test extensively. And, that's a good thing because I forgot a few things. Important things. My CSS Framework is a second or third design of my roll-your-own efforts. The first one was essentially a re-working of Bulma. I...

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Focusing on components

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Monday May 27 2024

My CSS Framework is pretty much done. All that remains is testing. For the testing, I decided to build some components. As I build these components, I am mindful that components should be made with multi-use in mind. For example, my first component is a horizontal mega-menu. That means that a drop...

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Offsets

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Thursday May 23 2024

I've been trying to think through a small issue for some time now ... not coding, just sitting and thinking through the issue. Let's define the issue. We already have ways of offsetting columns. In both Bootstrap and Bulma, you add a class name for the column size, and then add another class to...

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Follow the logic here

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Wednesday May 22 2024

Looking at all the component CSS frameworks, I see so much wasted code. Curated ... hogwash. I'm sure a lot of this junk started out in the infancy of responsive grids. Add a bit of space to a container. Add a bit of space to a row. Add a bit of space to a column. Whoops, first item ... remove some...

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Something satisfying

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Tuesday May 21 2024

A bit over one year ago, I was contacted by a friend with a problem on his business website. The problem was that far too many of the emails he received were junk mail – originating from the forms on his website. One form was a general Contact Us page, the other form was similar but included a...

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