How to fix sticky headers
You all know these websites with a sticky header, right? They have a horizontal navigation at the top, often with the site logo on the left – which is also often way too big, so not too many navigation items … Read more →
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Fun with numbers in JavaScript
No, I’m not going to start a video channel on this topic. But I want to show you some things about numbers, you might not have known before. The answer, however, as we all know, is 42. Types of numbers … Read more →
Getting started with JavaScript debugging
It’s that time of the year again. Some of you just celebrated Thanksgiving, while the rest of the world only “celebrated” Black Friday. But I’m speaking about the 24 days before Christmas. Starting in 2015, I’ve set myself the goal … Read more →
The HTML lang attribute and how to overwrite it
Since I have stopped my current project with the new theme, I am now allowing myself to blog about other topics again. This week, I want to write about an important global HTML attribute: the lang attribute. Maybe some of … Read more →
Too much custom CSS: I have to stop!
My last blog post was back in July. I was not able to keep my usual rate of a new blog post every two weeks. This had many different reasons, some personal and some regarding people I care about. But … Read more →
Goal missed: I had to add some CSS to the theme
When I’ve started this project, I had the goal to only use the Site Editor to rebuild the theme. I wanted to see how far I can come without using custom CSS. My final opponent was the header. Just using … Read more →
A fifteen-year-old teen who doesn’t know what to wear
Readers of my German blog know this tradition of “blog birthday blog posts”. Another year has passed, and I’ve been blogging on this site for 15 years now. In that time, 401 posts have come together, but I only translated … Read more →
Building and styling the new header
The header was always the part of the theme, I wasn’t sure I can easily replicate. But with every new Core or Gutenberg version, there have been more options to accomplish what I want to have as an end result. … Read more →
Moving the sidebar into a theme pattern
I initially planned to continue with the header, as mentioned in the last blog post, in which we’ve created a sidebar for our theme in the Site Editor using a “Synced Pattern”. But since this has some downsides I wanted … Read more →
Bringing some structure into the theme: The Sidebar
Now that we have fonts and colors, we can start with the structure of the theme. Giving a page a clear structure is fundamental to enable it to be responsive later on. Waipoua structure The Waipoua theme is roughly structured … Read more →