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Chenghiz posted:Your post body is valid JSON so yeah the issue is the content-type header not being set correctly. it should be application/json, not application-json (assuming you didn't typo that) Break break... Released an updated version of a Rust frontend framework. Looking for features to prioritize, and shortcomings to fix. Ie: What do you want out of a frontend framework? What friction have you run into setting up, or learning from the quickstart / guide?
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Dumb bug I have not seen anywhere: if you sent a wrong content-length on https on chrome, it downloads but shows a white page. It kind of make sense, I guess, has may look to the browser like a tampered page.
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As the freelancer section isnt ready yet in the op does anyone have any good resources for figuring out pricing / estimation? I'd like to start doing a few side gigs but its a tricky area to start in while trying to avoid making elementary mistakes
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NtotheTC posted:As the freelancer section isnt ready yet in the op does anyone have any good resources for figuring out pricing / estimation? I'd like to start doing a few side gigs but its a tricky area to start in while trying to avoid making elementary mistakes Never do a fixed-price contract, and avoid being too "certain" about anything. You can work with averages, but inevitably someone will have an idea for a "very simple" must-have component for the website that of course takes hours and hours to do properly, and blows the whole estimate out of the water. Ask if they have a budget for the project, then tweak the project proposal to work within that budget, and have frequent conversations about the progress of the project against the amount of money you expected it would take to get that far; adjust the specifics of the project as necessary to remain within budget.
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PT6A posted:Never do a fixed-price contract, and avoid being too "certain" about anything. You can work with averages, but inevitably someone will have an idea for a "very simple" must-have component for the website that of course takes hours and hours to do properly, and blows the whole estimate out of the water. I disagree with this unless the work is less than 20 hours. Anything lower than 20 is impossible to estimate. However for larger projects if you tightly define a scope of work and base your price on a reasonable hourly rate multiplied by an estimated number of hours, things work out nicely assuming you are good at estimating and you include a clause in your contract about scope expansions. Probably 95% of my work is fixed-price and I think I've gone over budget on maybe one project in the last four years? The rest I've been either at or under budget, and ever hour I come in under means free money in my pocket. That all being said, I've also been estimating projects for over a decade so I'm usually pretty spot on. For big projects I spend about 4-6 hours having calls with the client to define the scope of work before I have any sort of contract. It's a lot of time to invest, but it's the main reason why I don't go over budget and that time is accounted for in my hourly rate. If a client seems flakey and they can't figure out what they want or need, I'll usually do a "discovery" project first which is basically where I charge them for 10-20 hours worth of meetings/me thinking about the site/app/whatever so I can actually help them define what the hell they're trying to do before I write a full proposal. I agree with your second paragraph. Constant communication with a client about progress vs. budget is absolutely vital and your clients will thank you for it. Novice freelancers are notoriously squeamish when it comes to talking about hours and dollars, but clients are used to it. We're just another vendor, and they're used to vendors being matter of fact about money. I've probably written a half dozen posts about pricing freelance work over the years, I've listed a few out below. The short version is: 1) Never do a project, no matter how small, no matter who with, without a contract. No, really! 2) Track your hours on every project, this helps you accurately estimate projects in the future. Break things out in whatever format is helpful for you (I track hours individually for UX, visual design, development and project management in Harvest, which is also my invoicing platform). 3) Get a deposit up front, 50% is standard but most clients take 30 days to pay (this is also standard, net 30 is The Thing) so don't expect it to hit your account immediately. Set billing milestones based on deliverables if you're doing fixed price (eg. 50% nonrefundable deposit, 25% on approval of X, 25% on delivery). Stop work immediately if a client isn't paying their bills. 4) Consider incorporating to protect yourself legally and financially Here are my old posts... On whether you should use freelance gig websites, and generally a good method for finding work On whether or not to incorporate, and what sort of corporations work well for freelance work A long post with info about how to figure out an hourly rate and other such nonsense A tryhard OP I wrote in BFC about freelancing which got exactly one reply with a lot of the same information This is of course more than what you asked for, NtotheTC, but whatever! Let me know if you have any other questions, I can answer them here if folks are interested or in PMs. I've been freelancing full time for about four and a half years, and before that I worked for a couple companies that operated more or less as freelancers do, so I have quite a bit of experience to draw on. Happy to share whatever might be helpful! kedo fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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That's absolutely brilliant- thanks for the info! Ive been salaried for my entire dev career but i really want to position myself to be more flexible going forward, the ability to be able to pick up the occasional side gig and/or do contracting work seems like useful knowledge to have. The project im looking at is for an acquaintances' business and is simple enough technically- im just aware how little i know about jobbing. Ive picked up bits and pieces like not doing any work without a contract but didn't know where to start getting a contract drawn up etc so your info is ideal
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Once you’ve estimated a project, double it. Then you’ll only get screwed a little instead of a whole lot. Developers tend to be awful at estimating and clients are really good at changing things. Oh, also always bill hourly for meetings.
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I have two questions. Whats the difference between this thread and the front end development thread? I'm trying to create a landing page that is diagonally divided into 3 sections. They are clickable by using clip-path in CSS. I am trying to create it so that mouse over hover expands the section to the full screen (of the window). My code is set up so that I have an 'a href' in HTML and nth child in CSS (so I can have the diagonal sections as links). But hover is not working when I say a: nth-child(3):hover While fiddling to make hover work I realised that the clip path does create sections, but the canvas isn't limited to the shape I made. I assumed it would. So I can enter text into the section of the bottom diagonal, but the text appears at the top of the page. Is there a way to make it so that the things I do are limited to the shape I made with clip path? Im jumping head first into web development. I have experience with HTMl and CSS but not a ton. Pretty much no knowledge of javascript. I do program in Ruby so i have a solid foundation of programming but web development feels very different.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:I have two questions. Effectively, none. People post the same stuff between this thread, that thread, and often the JS thread. Edgar Allan Pwned posted:I'm trying to create a landing page that is diagonally divided into 3 sections. They are clickable by using clip-path in CSS. I am trying to create it so that mouse over hover expands the section to the full screen (of the window). My code is set up so that I have an 'a href' in HTML and nth child in CSS (so I can have the diagonal sections as links). But hover is not working when I say a: nth-child(3):hover I'm not following exactly, and it seems like there are a bunch of questions here....
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Here is the codepen for what I'm working on. https://codepen.io/june-y/pen/XoMrVP I guess the main question is, why doesnt hover work with the current HTML/CSS setup. I can find examples of hover working for nth-child, like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14203823/hover-with-a-nth-child or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14203823/hover-with-a-nth-child Ive looked at a few jsfiddles and the only difference I have really noticed is how people divide classes.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:Here is the codepen for what I'm working on. You haven't set any `:hover` attribute.
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Can anyone point me towards a css/js framework like Bootstrap, but mimics how iOS looks natively?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can anyone point me towards a css/js framework like Bootstrap, but mimics how iOS looks natively? Bootstrapple
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can anyone point me towards a css/js framework like Bootstrap, but mimics how iOS looks natively? iStrap
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I feel like I’m being trolled so let me be more specific: I’m looking for native iOS looking buttons and menus, basically. I have basically zero experience with web development but I’m just trying to embed some static html pages in an app, with buttons and stuff.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I feel like I’m being trolled so let me be more specific: I’m looking for native iOS looking buttons and menus, basically. I have basically zero experience with web development but I’m just trying to embed some static html pages in an app, with buttons and stuff. But... you should stop tryiing to search a UI that mimick exactly Apple, and try to find one that is just a good UI framework for phones. Is a completelly different thing. A good UI would be easy to find, good and solid. It may not render the buttons exactly like apple do. ~versus~ A UI framework tryiing to trick the users that they are using a native application when is a lie, is going to be (by design) deceptive, broken by every Apple update, fragile, poorly documented, ... the buttons may looks exactly like apple ones, but the price is too high. And is going to be hard to find, I don't know of any Tei fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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I was a big fan of skeleton for a while, but it has been ages since I've used any kind of css framework so I dunno if it has kept up
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Onsen might be what you have in mind. It’s close-ish to the iOS (and Android if you want it) design. Came across it when researching PWAs.
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Tei posted:broken by every Apple update Listen to this. I learned years ago that adopting current visual trends and playing nice with UIKit just lead to pain when Apple would just change colors, corners, insets, etc. year after year.
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It's also bad design. Native controls use gestures in different ways than the browser. For example, if you make a website with cells that are styled like iOS cells, there's an expectation that you can swipe the cell to reveal actions like delete. That'd be a bug-riddled pain in the rear end to faithfully recreate on the web.
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It would be nice to know a little of the intention and context around the page.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I feel like I’m being trolled so let me be more specific: I’m looking for native iOS looking buttons and menus, basically. I have basically zero experience with web development but I’m just trying to embed some static html pages in an app, with buttons and stuff. I'm not gonna tell you your idea is poo poo and instead point you at http://photonkit.com/. You can basically ignore all the 'for Electron' crap because it's just a CSS framework in the end. edit: now that I think about it this might be more apple desktop UI than mobile iPhone stuff, but I don't use Apple products and can't tell. porksmash fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Kobayashi posted:It's also bad design. Native controls use gestures in different ways than the browser. For example, if you make a website with cells that are styled like iOS cells, there's an expectation that you can swipe the cell to reveal actions like delete. That'd be a bug-riddled pain in the rear end to faithfully recreate on the web. Yea, is a pain in the rear end when you build something that create the wrong expectations. Even more when is software in continuos development and even people in the development team have things mixed up and the app is a battlefield for two oposite expectations. Ben there, done that. I am the software architect in my company, and I try to predict these problems and avoid them. Is a hopeless job because you fight a battle nobody understands why you are fighting it. 
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Just before the whole serve-everything-as-json-and-build-the-dom thing took off there was a bit of time where people were getting HTML fragments downloaded from the server and swapping them out on the page on link clicking. I seem to remember there was a library or two aimed at making this better or easier, but I can't for the life of me come up with any good search keywords to find this. Anyone have any ideas what I'm looking for? I feel like Github had a JS library they open sourced...
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Thermopyle posted:Just before the whole serve-everything-as-json-and-build-the-dom thing took off there was a bit of time where people were getting HTML fragments downloaded from the server and swapping them out on the page on link clicking. Turbolinks?
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gmq posted:Turbolinks? Well, gently caress, yes of course. Thanks! I had a total mental blockage on that. Now that I can google that, the other one I was trying to remember is called PJAX.
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I haven't updated my portfolio website in quite some time. Trouble is, for the past 5+ years I've worked at an e-commerce, not a design firm. How do I present a variety of work and skill sets without it looking monotonous or redundant since it'll all be from the same website?
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Blog about tips and tricks you've learned along the way, without divulging any of the code as you're likely held under NDA.
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You should be telling stories about how you worked within a team, challenges you overcame, how you reacted when things went wrong, what sort of successes you had. The actual look and feel of what you made really isn't as important. And you can present that however you want.
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Yeah as a person who reads resumes; it's more about what you learned and how you helped improve things while you were there
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At my current job designers get rejected all the time because while they had gorgeous projects they worked on their storytelling and presentation of it was poo poo.
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The Dave posted:At my current job designers get rejected all the time because while they had gorgeous projects they worked on their storytelling and presentation of it was poo poo. This is good to know. I wish I had good stories for my sites; I really don't know what to say about them. Most of my challenges involve telling clients they're requesting something that will actively hinder people using their website or looking professional, such as not making a badly pixelated cellphone photo of their van as the focus of their site or not making a box around each line of text of a sentence as it line-breaks on their screen. And the way I overcome those challenges is to do those things anyway because I get tired of arguing and just want the site launched. But now I'm trying to think of ways I can spin those.
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LifeLynx posted:This is good to know. I wish I had good stories for my sites; I really don't know what to say about them. Most of my challenges involve telling clients they're requesting something that will actively hinder people using their website or looking professional, such as not making a badly pixelated cellphone photo of their van as the focus of their site or not making a box around each line of text of a sentence as it line-breaks on their screen. And the way I overcome those challenges is to do those things anyway because I get tired of arguing and just want the site launched. But now I'm trying to think of ways I can spin those. If they're being handed an order from on high, though, and lack the ability to push back on it themselves, you're often just SOL: "The CEO made this company out of nothing. Surely we can't refuse him when he decides to micromanage the the tiniest detail or remove whole swathes of what we'd planned and already paid for!" Real answer for if it's something more than just low-res images—try to get at the underlying reasoning driving their demand and offer them alternatives. Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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LifeLynx posted:This is good to know. I wish I had good stories for my sites; I really don't know what to say about them. Most of my challenges involve telling clients they're requesting something that will actively hinder people using their website or looking professional, such as not making a badly pixelated cellphone photo of their van as the focus of their site or not making a box around each line of text of a sentence as it line-breaks on their screen. And the way I overcome those challenges is to do those things anyway because I get tired of arguing and just want the site launched. But now I'm trying to think of ways I can spin those. Talk about how you balanced stakeholder requirements and delivered on time/within budget, yadda yadda. "Storytelling" really just means, can you give me the tl;dr: of what this project was, what your specific responsibilities were, and in a format that indicates you know the process works. Draw attention to the things you're proud of (or, failing that, not completely ashamed of), avoid the problem areas, and when in doubt, less is more.
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Throw data at clients who won’t listen to you. “The data from X suggests we’ll see lower conversions if we show this lovely cell phone photo on the homepage,” works every time. If you can’t find a reliable source to provide you with this info, you can probably find something to point to in your own/a past project’s analytics. The more you can tie your work and (correct) opinions to their bottom line the better, even if that tie is tenuous at best. I also plant the seed that “good UX = happier visitors = more conversions” at the very beginning of a relationship with a client and let them know it’s my job to be the user’s advocate and shoot down their crappier ideas. As long as you establish this early on it makes these types of conversations a thousand times easier. In terms of how you spin it for an interview: “delivered the project on time and within scope while managing the needs and requirements from a variety of stakeholders,” is code for “this was a difficult client, but I managed them the best I could.”
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Here's a tough one, I think. iOS blocks delayed popup windows / ones not immediate to user interaction. So something like so:JavaScript code:In my case, a user will click one of several "Log in with [ Social Media Service ]" buttons and I need to grab a token from my backend before firing off the pop-up window to allow them to log in using whatever social media service they chose. The brute force solution is to fire off my calls for each button on each login view load, but since best case I won't use most of the results, that seems inelegant*. So is there a way to do this without then making them tap another button that I am not able to Google? * yes, I know... if it works, who cares. EDIT: I think the correct answer is to use redirects instead of popups, which is crap-tacular for adding / linking additional accounts once you've logged in. Lumpy fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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Lumpy posted:Here's a tough one, I think. iOS blocks delayed popup windows / ones not immediate to user interaction. So something like so: Instead of a new window or page navigation, put up a modal containing an iframe with that URL?
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Munkeymon posted:Instead of a new window or page navigation, put up a modal containing an iframe with that URL? The downside of that is users can't see if they are *really* on Facebook or wherever. I imagine they generally don't care, but some might. However, I think that is what I'm going with since it's minimal changes. Thanks for the suggestion!
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today I learned that you can use window.name to store up to 2MB of data, and that data survive page transitions, so is even more powerful than a cookie. I wonder if the european parlament will create a new law so a new set of popups is added to pages with the message "This page uses Window.Name" and these "We respect your privacy" horse poo poo.
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