Articles, tutorials and other ramblings
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Dave's Blog
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New Site Structure Plans
I’m currently in the process of shifting things over from old to new with regards to my personal site. As many others, I also suffer from “leaving personal work until last”. In my last article related to this I said I’d be switching my WordPress content over from it to this site. Currently I’ve only transferred the articles and they are sitting in drafts. This is mainly because I’ve yet to style some elements on this site, such as images in articles. Plus I’m avoiding the dreaded domain transfer process, which shouldn’t be hard now I’ve documented it.
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GitHub Pages & Custom Domains
I love GitHub Pages. So much so that I’ve created several websites using it. This site runs on it, and a few others. What I don’t love is setting up domain records. It’s up there with setting up email accounts and doing the dishes.
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Add a Formspree Form to Your Static Sites
In this tutorial we’re going to look at a hassle-free way of adding dynamic, flexible forms to your static websites.
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I Listen To Too Many Podcasts
I’ve had to take a break from listening to podcasts as all I’ve been doing in playing catch up with every single episode of them, rather than listening to episodes I actually want to hear.
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Experiment & Project Updates
I’ve been working on a few of my personal projects and experiments this weekend and thought it might be worth rounding them up in a short-ish article. That way I can show new features or changes, plus give you a chance to check out some of my older stuff.
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Oi, GitHub.io
I’ve decided to follow the cool kids and start up a proper github.io site. For the time being I’ll be leaving it at daviddarnes.github.io. However I’d like to slowly transfer the articles from my current WordPress site to this one, with the plan to eventually move entirely over to this system and archive the WordPress site. The switch to this was inevitable really. I dabbled with the idea, thinking it was pretty cool that I could not only have my whole site open source, but also be able to host it from the same place as well.
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How to Implement Cross-Browser SVG Sprites
In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate a basic implementation of some SVG icons, how to provide a fallback, and how to turn them into an SVG sprite.
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5 ways to be a better front-end web developer
Frontend web development can be a confusing area to work in. With new techniques, tools and technologies appearing daily, it can be difficult to maintain your skills and understanding of the latest best practices.