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Skyarb posted:Any ideas? You could add a wrapper element around your padding-aspect-ratio-ed element with a max-height/max-width. Or maybe you could add the max-dimension styles to the element itself and move the padding into a ::before pseudo-element? Ima Computer fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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If you’re using the padding trick for a 1:1 aspect ratio, max-width is the same as max-height and should do the trick.
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kedo posted:If you’re using the padding trick for a 1:1 aspect ratio, max-width is the same as max-height and should do the trick.
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OK, I've been bashing my head against this for way too long and I need help. I've got a WordPress website with AMP AdSense ad blocks inserted into the posts. Example post here: https://www.thirtyonewhiskey.com/whiskey-review-blantons-single-barrel-bourbon-whiskey/ When viewing this in a mobile form factor, the AMP ads are too wide for the page and breaks the formatting. I've tried messing with the CSS for the specific ad blocks, but I'm out of my depth here. Any suggestions?
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Apr 17, 2021 15:16
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foghorn posted:OK, I've been bashing my head against this for way too long and I need help. Have you tried max-width? That's waht I would try
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Apr 17, 2021 19:12
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Empress Brosephine posted:Have you tried max-width? That's waht I would try I am a goddamn idiot. I swapped from "100vw" to "100em" and it worked. AMP looks to be a bit strange here -- give it any value other than 100% for that relative element and it freaks out. But if you change the relative value you're using that seems to work. EDIT: Appreciate the help, Empress Brosephine. Your suggestion sent me down the correct rabbit hole after literal days of bashing my head against this. foghorn fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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Apr 17, 2021 21:00
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The Merkinman posted:unless you did something different from what I tired, it didn't work for me. The "height" remained the same. The height of the container that is. So the image had a max-height, but then there was all this whitespace. Can you post a JS fiddle or something of the issue? I'm not sure I follow. e: This is what I'm talking about : https://jsfiddle.net/457wj6by/ kedo fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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been working on a redesign for my neocities site for a while now it's almost done but i cant seem to get myself to finish it for whatever reason, even though itd be less than 20 minutes of work bleh i'd link my site once it's done but i feel like that's a bad idea on SA lmao
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Apr 18, 2021 13:07
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So I have a site where its layout is pretty much entirely made with desktop in mind. So much so that if I were to design it for mobile, lots of things about hte layout is going to change, and some elements will just straight up have to be altered or hidden. What is a good practice for this? I really don't ever do design for anything other than desktop but want to better understand making something responsive to both.
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Apr 20, 2021 06:44
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Skyarb posted:So I have a site where its layout is pretty much entirely made with desktop in mind. So much so that if I were to design it for mobile, lots of things about hte layout is going to change, and some elements will just straight up have to be altered or hidden. What is a good practice for this? I really don't ever do design for anything other than desktop but want to better understand making something responsive to both. If you’re designing something new: design it for mobile first, and expand the design for larger screens as needed. If you’re trying to retrofit an existing site for mobile: haaaa good luck. If you have analytics on your current or target users you can figure how how many people are visiting on mobile vs desktop. Spoiler alert: the results may shock you. The product I work on is 75% mobile between web and the app, desktop is a distant 2nd. All our designs are built for mobile first. Generally this means: single column vertical layout, hierarchy is very important, make text nice and large and readable, and put complex actions in menus if possible. Anony Mouse fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 08:23
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Yeah it’s hard to be super generic but it helps to know if any content could be shifted to a modal, slide out panel, or a horizontally scolling/swiping carousel.
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Apr 20, 2021 12:27
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You might want to look into Media Queries to control how parts are displayed on different devices. And if you're not already aware, definitely look into Flexbox and Grids.
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I think i've said this before but I hate having to migrate e-mail as a contracted web developer. I always tell them "Have your IT people do it!" to which they say "Why cant you do it, its all website!" :/
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Yeah, I just plain stopped doing it years ago. It's not anywhere near my expertise and once you touch a client's email you become Email Tech Support forever. There's so much that can go wrong with a migration and email is so critical to a business that it's dangerous to touch. \/\/\/\/\/\/ This \/\/\/\/\/\/ kedo fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 20:31
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i refuse to touch email of any kind for any small business. if its a friend and i like them i tell them to sign up for gsuite or fastmail it's 100% guaranteed to result in some kind of bs where all the email from the people they want to talk to and ancient vendors go straight to spam or trashed completely because the other end is probably trying to send from one of the following: - ancient vendor with no spf, dkim, ptr, etc - onprem dynamic cable internet that has all mail ports blocked - people that use the same email to shill pyramid scheme terminal illness essential oil cures and are banned from every mail system known to humans, and several known to aliens - 1tb bmp attachments - malware and now it's your fault that they aren't getting it and also why did you uninstall my smiley toolbar
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Yes, gently caress email in every way possible. Unfortunately I happen to be the resident "email expert" at the place I work, so every single time one of our clients has an email issue it gets thrown on me. Today I got the gem of gems. Customer can't get Thunderbird to send emails, it just hangs at 58% (specifically this percentage), I know that because I got this very helpful image from the customer.  Apparently they've hit reply and tried to send it 10+ times, as witnessed by the clusterfuck in the taskbar. They can't or won't disconnect or reboot the PC because it's somehow integrated with their POS system and if disconnected orders won't come through. They can't or won't upgrade this ancient windows 7 PC because if they change it their POS system will stop working. At this point I am hellbent on convincing these To add to this mess, I am in EST and they are located nowhere other than... Hawaii, so if I want to actually troubleshoot this other than by email, I will need to do it at some bizarre late afternoon time when I really don't feel like doing this poo poo (not that I feel like doing it anyways). I'm not even sure why we're doing this, we don't host their site or email. We're a web development company, why are we even getting involved in desktop support? gently caress My Life.  tldr: Don't ever let anyone you work with know you're competent at dkim, spf, dns, etc. etc. or ALL the email problems become your problem. ModeSix fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 05:50
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ModeSix posted:Yes, gently caress email in every way possible. i thought all the people who still used thick email clients were dead or in nursing homes? i feel like i last used one in the 1990's.
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Speaking of email, any suggestions for frameworks to make developing them easier? I'm looking at: https://mjml.io https://maizzle.com Maizzle seems interesting because it uses tailwind, which I've recently fallen in love with. I hate making HTML emails for sites, so I'm looking something to ease it.
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Violator posted:Speaking of email, any suggestions for frameworks to make developing them easier? I'm looking at: Maizzle looks really good (I also love tailwind) but this quote:Maizzle doesn't include markup abstractions that expand to table-based structures, such as <row> or <column> in other frameworks. I've been using mjml lately and it works great.
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lunar detritus posted:
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lunar detritus posted:Maizzle looks really good (I also love tailwind) but this Ah, good catch. Mjml it is!
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Email is terrible, why do you all keep touching it?! I swear, whenever one of my projects wraps up, the design/dev shop I'm working with inevitably says, "it was good working with you on that project, but do you code HTML emails and if so can you code these 30 we have waiting in our backlog?" Yes I can, but I won't. Because it's miserable and I hate it! And so does everyone else, that's why you can't get anyone to code them for you! In unrelated news, I have a client whose favorite thing to do is to send me an extremely cropped image of some random error on their site (like, one glyph in a sentence is replaced with a ▯, but the screenshot shows ONLY the glyph and nothing else), no URL where I can find the error, no browser information, nothing. Just the image as an attachment on an email with an empty body and the subject line, "Thoughts?" I get at least one of these emails per week. 99% of the bugs have been user error.
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I'm looking to help a company streamline their website production. My problem is that since I've been a solo freelancer for about 15 years, I have no experience with corporate web shop stuff, and I'm the most experienced developer this company has worked with. Can anyone share some tips? Things such as:
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LifeLynx posted:I'm looking to help a company streamline their website production. My problem is that since I've been a solo freelancer for about 15 years, I have no experience with corporate web shop stuff, and I'm the most experienced developer this company has worked with. Can anyone share some tips? Things such as: From past experience, freelanced, solo, non-corporate shop for non-technical very large content creators: - If they have nothing at all, like totally brand new, I usually recommend Google's: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html and for JS, defaults https://eslint.org/, if you are a high impact target that will be subject to many compromise attempts, skip WP completely and use a static site gen - In theory, teach them to commit markdown files or send you markdown. In practice, you will get a message at 4:20 am from them on Discord while their status says "playing VALORANT for 8 hours" stating that [badly formatted, typoed blob of text obviously written on their phone] needs to be up today. This varies too. If it's a small business and they are only competent in MS Word just have them attach a file or pdf or paste into an email. If it's a gamer or really anyone under 30 you can probably get away with "just write markdown like you're on reddit or discord" and they will understand and give you a perfectly formatted document - This varies wildly and will be subject to you. I lived in a place where a studio is $5k/m and can't charge $10 a month for a template builder - "If you do not refuse, this will automatically be posted x date and you will be invoiced" with contract requirements and fines - Depending on size or professional-ness (I was dealing with 10-20m subscriber youtubers), don't be surprised if they ask you where to pirate windows on a sunday in the middle of the night Impotence fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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LifeLynx posted:
For JS and CSS, replace the fiddly how-to-format-code bits of a style guide with just using Prettier instead. Set up dev pipelines so that it automatically runs everywhere, and make everyone set up their editors with Prettier plugins that auto-run on save. It'll get you "good enough" code formatting that's generally readable by everybody, and now nobody ever has to think about the fine details of laying out their code again.
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:i thought all the people who still used thick email clients were dead or in nursing homes? i feel like i last used one in the 1990's. I am still using Thunderbird for my personal email, even if it is a gmail account and I could use it in the browser. But why would I bother? Thunderbird, at least for me, (obviously not that guy from Hawaii) works just fine. I see no reason to change. What would the browser version provide that Thunderbird doesn't? I probably should be heading to a nursing home ...
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Volguus posted:I am still using Thunderbird for my personal email, even if it is a gmail account and I could use it in the browser. But why would I bother? Thunderbird, at least for me, (obviously not that guy from Hawaii) works just fine. I see no reason to change. What would the browser version provide that Thunderbird doesn't? I probably should be heading to a nursing home ... I imagine there are certain features that thunderbird does that I couldn't get by just opening a browser window. I don't use any of those features - I can do everything in the browser that I would want to do (and hell, stuff like searching my email etc. is a ton faster than I remember it being when I used thick email clients.) The whole having to install a third party app and launch it seems like much more work than a bookmark. I don't think every app should be in the browser, but email is fine as a browser app.
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Volguus posted:I am still using Thunderbird for my personal email, even if it is a gmail account and I could use it in the browser. But why would I bother? Thunderbird, at least for me, (obviously not that guy from Hawaii) works just fine. I see no reason to change. What would the browser version provide that Thunderbird doesn't? I probably should be heading to a nursing home ... Well in the case of this particular client, the one feature they could get by using their browser is their emails would actually send. Other than that I see no issue in using whatever email client you want to.
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:I imagine there are certain features that thunderbird does that I couldn't get by just opening a browser window. I'm the exact opposite: I wouldn't use the browser version of an app, even if it would have more features, if there is a desktop version which has the features that I need. Electron apps are a bummer for sure, but ... oh well, that's the new way.
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Volguus posted:I'm the exact opposite: I wouldn't use the browser version of an app, even if it would have more features, if there is a desktop version which has the features that I need. Electron apps are a bummer for sure, but ... oh well, that's the new way. For whatever reason, email seems to be the one difference. Fastmail or GSuite's search in webmail is orders of magnitude faster than anything I've ever used on a desktop client
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ModeSix posted:I'm not even sure why we're doing this, we don't host their site or email. We're a web development company, why are we even getting involved in desktop support? I say this literally every day! I'm not sure why email has never caught on as a business critical separate service like websites. Having working email is way more important than most websites. It's the same reason web developers generally don't setup point of sale systems. kedo posted:Email is terrible, why do you all keep touching it?! I swear, whenever one of my projects wraps up, the design/dev shop I'm working with inevitably says, "it was good working with you on that project, but do you code HTML emails and if so can you code these 30 we have waiting in our backlog?" Yes I can, but I won't. Because it's miserable and I hate it! And so does everyone else, that's why you can't get anyone to code them for you! From my experience this usually happens because sales/someone higher up than me says "this client spends X elsewhere and we want to keep them happy so can you help them out with this email thing?".
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I think it used to be always included with sites back in the days but I get asked to do it all the time. Like I said earlier I tell them to talk to their IT people, but technology is still in that area were people don't want to pay for it unless essential :/
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I mean I'm not about to volunteer to do DNS for them either.
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Data Graham posted:I mean I'm not about to volunteer to do DNS for them either. Ugh, I always end up making the DNS changes for our clients. I'd say 50% don't even know who their domain registrar is, I always have to walk them through the whole 'who have you been paying?' process.
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Yeah same , but I don't mind dns most of the time. I rather not though lol.
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Biowarfare posted:From past experience, freelanced, solo, non-corporate shop for non-technical very large content creators: They rely on and trained all their employees on Wordpress's suite of SEO plugins, there's no turning back now. Most of the clients are plumbers, contractors, etc. so they won't know what markdown was. But the content is sent to a coordinator and then organized and sent to developers, so markdown might be worth looking into for them. frogbs posted:Ugh, I always end up making the DNS changes for our clients. I'd say 50% don't even know who their domain registrar is, I always have to walk them through the whole 'who have you been paying?' process. "I don't know, my last designer set that up for me. Did I mention I hired you because it was some college kid and he stopped responding to any emails?"
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LifeLynx posted:They rely on and trained all their employees on Wordpress's suite of SEO plugins, words cannot describe how much i loving despise the commercial wordpress plugin/theme industry, from backdoors, hidden curl_open crap to phone home to the mass of self-serving spam they add to your install
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Biowarfare posted:words cannot describe how much i loving despise the commercial wordpress plugin/theme industry, from backdoors, hidden curl_open crap to phone home to the mass of self-serving spam they add to your install I would love to abandon PHP and Wordpress and code in React, those sites are lightning fast. I don't know my way around the whole ecosystem there to find, like, a replacement for Woocommerce, a way to do forms, etc. Since they're an SEO company firstly they wouldn't know what to do if someone couldn't go in and update meta tags and whatever SEO stuff they do after I've finished design and code.
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LifeLynx posted:I would love to abandon PHP and Wordpress and code in React, those sites are lightning fast.
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