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KPCKevin Powell - Community
•Created by McMarty on 12/13/2024 in #front-end
Managing images on an image-intensive website
I am replacing an old website and making a new one which is responsive, mobile-first. It is an online newspaper, and as such, will have a lot of images.
It sounds like you have to be really mindful of webpage sizes and bandwidth to give a good user experience.
So I am looking for advice of how to AVOID having images choke my website and thus frustrate end-users...
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KPCKevin Powell - Community
•Created by McMarty on 12/7/2024 in #front-end
Questions about CSS landscape
Hello. Before I dive into CSS, I have questions about - not sure what to call this - the "landscape" of CSS.
For example, JavaScript has "libraries" and "frameworks".
Guess this will be an evolving conversation....
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KPCKevin Powell - Community
•Created by McMarty on 12/3/2024 in #front-end
Getting started with Javascript
I am currently learning responsive web design and "mobile-first" development, and it looks like I need to finally break down and learn Javascript.
My approach to learning new languages is to learn the pure language before getting off into the weeds learning frameworks and so on.
Is it possible to learn just Javascript?
And is there a certain version of Javascript I should learn? (Many years ago I recall there being a fork maybe between JavaScrpt II and JavaScript 6 or something like that and all I remember is that it mattered which path you took.
Right now I just need to learn enough JavaScript to help with mobile issues like hamburger menus, menus coming in from off screen, and other mobile "metaphors" that can't be done with just HTML and CSS.
P.S. I am new to Discord and not really familiar with how it works - I am an old dog used to online user forums and BBCode - so sorry if I'm not doing this correctly!
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