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BEM notation and SCSS

Gordon Ansell 4th September 2020, 12:25 Tech, Web Development, CSS, How-To 1030 words.

A look at how BEM notation might work with SCSS. I also present my opinions about BEM in general.
Coverage issues in Google Search Console

Gordon Ansell 17th March 2020, 14:15 Tech, Web Development, Google, How-To 1088 words.

How to find and fix coverage problems in Google Search Console and ensure your site is indexed properly.
How to create a dark mode in CSS for your website

Gordon Ansell 6th February 2020, 07:35 Tech, Web Development, CSS, How-To 880 words.

How to create a dark mode in CSS and how to allow the user to change modes using some Javascript.
Safari inspect element CSS problem

Gordon Ansell 22nd May 2019, 19:30 Tech, Web Development, CSS, How-To 441 words.

How to fix a problem with Safari's 'Inspect Element' where the DOM tree seems to bounce all over the place.
How to use the PHP built-in web server

Gordon Ansell 10th May 2019, 04:40 Tech, PHP, Web Development, How-To 372 words.

A brief example of how to use the PHP built-in web server for testing and development purposes.
Schema markup for a blog (Part 2)

Gordon Ansell 23rd April 2019, 18:10 Tech, Web Development, Blogging, How-To 1040 words.

My (revised) version of how to markup a blog with schema so that the relevant properties and relationships are properly defined.
Using schema @IDs

Gordon Ansell 23rd April 2019, 10:50 Tech, Web Development, How-To 333 words.

How to use schema @ids to avoid repeating yourself when you want to define complex schemas. It's easier than you might think.
Panic to release Coda replacement

Gordon Ansell 15th March 2019, 10:00 Tech, Software, Web Development, Apple, macOS, iOS, News 322 words.

Panic have announced that they intend to replace Coda, their web development software, with something entirely new.
Schema.org for a blog

Gordon Ansell 17th October 2018, 07:15 Tech, Web Development, Blogging, How-To 1144 words.

How I use schema.org markup on a blog. A combination of WebSite, Blog, Article and BlogPosting, and things like Product and Review to generate rich snippets.
Coda review - nearly the perfect code editor

Gordon Ansell 13th October 2018, 08:45 Tech, Software, Apple, iOS, Web Development, Review 871 words.

A review of Panic's Coda, which is a code editor, FTP and terminal app for macOS and iOS. It's basically very good but suffers from one or two drawbacks.
PHP 7 sessions timing out too soon

Gordon Ansell 3rd October 2018, 09:30 Tech, PHP, Web Development, How-To 147 words.

Fixing PHP sessions, which seem to be timing out too soon since PHP 7. The problem lies with where the sessions are saved.
How I use Jekyll on both macOS and iOS

Gordon Ansell 10th September 2018, 07:00 Tech, Jekyll, macOS, iOS, Linux, Web Development, How-To 456 words.

Whereas Jekyll will run on macOS, it won't run on iOS, so I had to install it on my Linux server. This is the cross-platform process I use to publish articles via Jekyll.
Controlling your own creative content and IndieWeb

Gordon Ansell 2nd August 2018, 10:20 Tech, Blogging, Social Media, Web Development, Opinion 584 words.

Why you should maintain control of your creative content on the internet via your own website and the blueprint provided by IndieWeb.
Reconfiguring Jekyll processes for iOS

Gordon Ansell 23rd March 2018, 07:30 Tech, Jekyll, Apple, iPad, iOS, Web Development, How-To 664 words.

This article describes how I went about changing the way I used Jekyll to support moving from a MacOS MacBook Pro as main computer to using an iOS iPad Pro instead.
Why use Jekyll as a blogging platform?

Gordon Ansell 7th March 2018, 07:20 Tech, Blogging, Jekyll, Web Development, Opinion 606 words.

Why I chose to use Jekyll, a static blog generation app, to power this site rather than something like Wordpress.
Installing Jekyll on macOS (OSX) 10.11+

Gordon Ansell 1st March 2018, 09:55 Tech, Jekyll, macOS, Web Development, How-To 547 words.

A description of how I installed Jekyll on MacOS 10.11+, including how to get past some of the errors I encountered.