Author Topic: RAWK Web Development Circle (Read 59655 times)

Lfsea · « **Reply #640 on:** March 18, 2019, 02:08:44 PM »

Quote from: Sangria on March 18, 2019, 01:43:15 PM

Question about applying a style from a stylesheet. I would like to define a number of styles in an external stylesheet with unique names, then call them in html. The idea is to have a base style with defined colours, and then define other details after that. Css tutorials on the web do something like this but with tags like p, h1 or a, restricting this to basic html functions. Can I do it with a tag like stig1?

Are you familiar with classes and IDs within CSS?

Sangria · « **Reply #641 on:** March 18, 2019, 02:25:55 PM »

Quote from: Lfsea on March 18, 2019, 02:08:44 PM

Are you familiar with classes and IDs within CSS?

Not within CSS, but I'm familiar with it in VB. If I have an example to work from, then I should understand the concept to make it work. What I would like is something like this:

CSS
stig1 {color
background color}
dump1 {font style
font size}
stig2
dump2, etc.

HTML
<stig1> // define colour
<dump1> // define font

Craig 🤔 · « **Reply #642 on:** March 18, 2019, 02:33:38 PM »

You'd either name (class/ID) the font element within the HTML and then define its styling in the CSS. Or name (class/ID) the div the font element is in within the HTML and then define its styling in the CSS.

Sangria · « **Reply #643 on:** March 18, 2019, 03:01:39 PM »

Quote from: CraigDS on March 18, 2019, 02:33:38 PM

You'd either name (class/ID) the font element within the HTML and then define its styling in the CSS. Or name (class/ID) the div the font element is in within the HTML and then define its styling in the CSS.

Thanks. Class does the trick.

Claire. · « **Reply #644 on:** March 19, 2019, 07:57:02 AM »

What you've suggested will work with custom elements, but for Edge or IE (or probably both!) you'll need to set their display property or they won't play ball.

Lfsea · « **Reply #645 on:** March 19, 2019, 02:07:16 PM »

Quote from: Claire. on March 19, 2019, 07:57:02 AM

What you've suggested will work with custom elements, but for Edge or IE (or probably both!) you'll need to set their display property or they won't play ball.

Related to that, at what point (when making a website with a small scope) do you stop optimising for niche browsers? I seem to recall that Edge & IE have a combined market share of 4-5%, so say you have a week's development time (random figure plucked from my backside) do you assign to making browsers like Samsung Internet and Edge look crispy?

Claire. · « **Reply #646 on:** March 19, 2019, 02:46:41 PM »

Quote from: Lfsea on March 19, 2019, 02:07:16 PM

Related to that, at what point (when making a website with a small scope) do you stop optimising for niche browsers? I seem to recall that Edge & IE have a combined market share of 4-5%, so say you have a week's development time (random figure plucked from my backside) do you assign to making browsers like Samsung Internet and Edge look crispy?

If they're low market share, I wouldn't spend time on them. This is probably one of the biggest changes I made in my current job - when I joined they supported _everything_ and it's pointless, you develop in your core browser and then give you attention to what is sensible - in our case, it's a desktop web app so we ignore mobile and then we support chrome as core, last 2 versions, then we organise the rest into priorities based on users usage and judge what is and isn't appropriate to spend time on based on that usage. If no-one using it, then you're just wasting your own time.

If you're not using data from that product you can always go for a set from caniuse and then reassess when you have data.

Kashinoda · « **Reply #647 on:** May 18, 2019, 01:38:49 AM »

Is there any out of the box / open source 'web app' solution? Just need some basic forms and the ability to return queries.

I need to build something basic to help my mother manage her business, I have a web server with MySQL but I don't have a great deal of time to learn how to do it from scratch

I use PowerApps to do this at work but that's out of the question due to Office 365 licensing, and I have tried her on MS Access to no avail!

Peabee · « **Reply #648 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:12:13 AM »

Quote from: Kashinoda on May 18, 2019, 01:38:49 AM

Is there any out of the box / open source 'web app' solution? Just need some basic forms and the ability to return queries.

I need to build something basic to help my mother manage her business, I have a web server with MySQL but I don't have a great deal of time to learn how to do it from scratch I use PowerApps to do this at work but that's out of the question due to Office 365 licensing, and I have tried her on MS Access to no avail!

I’d start by googling/searching for open source alternatives to powerapps if that does the job you want it to do.

hixxstar · « **Reply #649 on:** October 17, 2019, 10:55:17 PM »

just a quick question... cheap all in one website build,hosting.. really just an info site for a mate..not loads of pages or traffic..
he does window cleaning, comercial cleanig etc.. wants a site with email link for customers etc.. maybe app links later (facebook, whatsapp)
was looking at ipage, godaddy etc.. but lots of bull till you get to pay.. .... ipage about £40 for 2 yrs with domaine name,privacy, free web builder for 6 pages..

any thoughts... thanks.. Hixx

Craig 🤔 · « **Reply #650 on:** October 18, 2019, 07:10:24 AM »

Never heard of ipage to be honest.

GoDaddy and Wix seem the two most popular services like this.

hixxstar · « **Reply #651 on:** October 18, 2019, 04:29:01 PM »

Quote from: Craig 🤔 on October 18, 2019, 07:10:24 AM

Never heard of ipage to be honest.

GoDaddy and Wix seem the two most popular services like this.

yeah, thought so.. i'll take a look ..

Claire. · « **Reply #652 on:** October 23, 2019, 12:26:58 PM »

if you can build a site then just buy a domain and use netlify to host. plenty of frameworks and that to knock something up in a few hours.

Kashinoda · « **Reply #653 on:** October 28, 2019, 06:03:23 PM »

So when is RAWK going to be made responsive Claire

?

Claire. · « **Reply #654 on:** October 29, 2019, 08:08:07 AM »

When I feel like getting loads of shit for giving up my free time for a few months.

I wonder when that will be... 🤔

John C · « **Reply #655 on:** October 31, 2019, 11:04:13 AM »

I’d also appreciate tips for free website creating for my daughter to sell small quantities of clothes please 😁

Claire. · « **Reply #656 on:** October 31, 2019, 02:30:22 PM »

doubt you'd get anything e-commerce totally free.

Shopify is probably the simplest as that's what it's made for but you can also do wordpress e-commerce.

Craig 🤔 · « **Reply #657 on:** October 31, 2019, 07:43:15 PM »

If it's only small quantities you may be best looking at something like an Etsy store. They'll take fees, but then most services will for payment processing, etc even if a free store. Plus you get the added benefit of an instant audience on those sorts of stores.

John C · « **Reply #658 on:** November 1, 2019, 12:24:12 AM »

Thanks Claire and Craig

Craig 🤔 · « **Reply #659 on:** November 1, 2019, 08:30:12 AM »

Not sure what the clothing is, etc but ASOS do (or used to, haven’t checked for a while) a marketplace section where people could set up their own mini stores.