Web design and development

In code, choosing spaces over tabs creates accessibility barriers. The developer ‘Holy Wars’ ignore this.

Besides removing all the cover images on the site, you may have noticed the change in logos, colours, and various other details. Here’s what that is all about.

“… each of my posts has usually sported a big ol’ hero image as the background for the post’s title, description, and date-of-issuance info. That, too, has been limiting and even delaying, even if only as a lame excuse on my part. After all, it’s not always possible to find a freebie stock photo that has even a tangential connection to a post’s subject(s).” (Bryce Wray in a post about CTCAJW mode)

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!”

With browsers having built-in “Open link in new tab” functionality, it doesn’t make sense to break a basic web idiom (the back button) on a whim. Auto-opening link in a new tab/window breaks the back button and is unnecessary (because users have the ability to make that choice for themselves).

It seems I’m doing more front-end web work than is ideal these days. I say that because I tend to prefer technical aspects of web development…

I’ve ended up doing some frontend web design after all, and have also enjoyed working with the Hugo static website generator.

So far the upshot of this is to not expect a simple Export/Import process with WordPress, especially when it comes to the Media Library, if one wants to rebuild a site at the same domain, rather than a domain move, with the previous domain still active.