events/2024-09-30-hwc-edinburgh
Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh was an IndieWeb meetup held on 2024-09-30.
- Archived from: https://indiewebforum.eu/d/20-hwc-edinburgh-30-sept
Notes
How do you sell a web side project? Alistair wrote an article: - https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/selling-web-project/
RSS feeds can include items in the future, James had to *un-break* his feed reader to support them.
James's website has a new design and internal search engine π - https://jamesg.blog
Website navigation: a list of link at the bottom of a page, or in a separate page, can go a long way.
Tall pages are fine: devices are good at showing long pages, and `scroll-snap` can help with 'aiming'. (Documentation on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll_snap)
Reading long articles: top bars that disappear and reappear if you scroll back up can be annoying. Reading page-by-page, scrolling with the keyboard (`Space` or `Page Up/Down`) can be less distracting.
Accessibility: make targets big!
Diagonal borders between sections of a page, Greyson uses `clip-path` on his website. (Documentation on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/clip-path) - https://greyson.scot
``` clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 calc(100% - var(--diagonal))); ```
Small devices for working on your website when not at home? So many options, but results vary. - phone that attach to screens and keyboards - Linux phones! - tablets of various kinds, with keyboard covers - odd Rasperry Pi contraptions
Learning to play a bagpipe can be painful. For others. Can you play Taylor Swift songs on a bagpipe? (this is HWC *Edinburgh* after all)
Persistent coffee stains coming soon on James' website.
Add-ons/extensions for prescription glasses are the future: wipers, QR code projectors, colour filters.