Understanding JavaScript operators is how you transition from merely keeping data to making some form of use out of it. If variables are the nouns of your code, operators are the verbs, they’re what make things happen. Think about it. You have numbers stored in variables. Good. Now how do you add them up? You […]
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Variables and Data Types in JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide JavaScript provides a lot of power in working with data. Every program you develop whether it is a basic counter or a sophisticated web app, is based upon a sequence of operations performed upon data. To begin doing anything useful, you must know how to store
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A basic overview of JavaScript will allow you to develop interactive web sites that will engage the end user. You have probably experienced a site that reacts to some event without reloading the page. A drop down menu shows up, a form validates your input, a modal dialog box appears. That is JavaScript at work.
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CSS frameworks are numerous, which can be intimidating to anyone starting to develop a website. As you sit looking at a blank stylesheet and thinking about how much work needs to go into creating all the parts of a site (grid, buttons, forms), it can seem like a better option to write everything from scratch.
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Writing CSS that scales and is maintainable, is based upon a foundation of core CSS best practices. Do you remember how easy writing CSS used to feel? You would create a few rules, things looked pretty good, and you were moving on. However, months later, you wanted to change one color and half of your
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Building solid navigation menus is a skill that separates a novice interface from a pro. You’ve probably found yourself in this spot before where you’re developing a new website and now it’s time to build the navigation. At first, it might seem straightforward, a handful of links along the top of the screen. However, after
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I’m going to be straight with you here. For years, forms were my least favorite part of any project. Give me a crazy dashboard layout or some fancy hover animation and I’m happy. But forms? I’d put them off until the very end every single time. You know the drill. You spend an afternoon getting
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You know that phase where every website looked like it was built with a ruler and a single shade of gray? The flat design era. Clean? Sure. But man, I can’t tell you how many times I’d squint at a screen full of boxes, my cursor hovering, thinking… “Is that a button, or just a
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The key to moving from static, brittle stylesheets to dynamic, maintainable ones is a deep understanding of CSS Variables. You know that sinking feeling. You’re tweaking a design, you change a main color in your CSS, and then you realize you have to find and update that same color in twenty other places. Maybe you miss
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Learning to keep your HTML clean and semantic is a core skill, and mastering CSS Pseudo elements is one of the best ways to do it. You know that feeling when you’re looking at your HTML, and it’s just… messy? You’ve got empty <div>s floating around just to hold a little decorative line, or extra <span> tags for icons that
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