#stylesheets

Lesson Three of Joe Hills Says You Can Code is now live at:

There's also a text version of this lesson, which may have as many jokes as the video, but could be helpful for folks like me who learn better while reading:

This lesson was sponsored by NameHero, and if you need hosting or a domain name, you can find my affiliate link with them at: https://namehero.com/joe

This video is the third in my Joe Hills Says You Can Code series, which aims to inspire and encourage folks to make the leap into self-publishing on the web. You can find the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7On8E0_x1tqQijSWg9_nO6tEmXuGgoxM

CSS-Tricks

Curious to what designs you can create with CSS? One can learn the amazing tricks and methods that go along with these code s through CSS-Tricks.com. One of the sweet tricks does involve the use of code instead of adding graphics to the page. CSS has grown to be able to add gradients, add neat filters to text, help make pages responsive, and other brilliant effects.

Looking cool…

Using stylesheets to enhance the translators experience when working with XML files can be very helpful and sometimes essential.  It allows you to pull details from the XML and display them in a preview pane so that the translator has more context around the translatable text.  It can also provide a mechanism for displaying text that you don’t want extracted from the XML for translation at all. …

Translate with style…

Quite often people ask me how to handle XML files where the author has written guidance notes as a tag in the XML.  These guidance notes should not be translated so you don’t really want to see them presented as a translatable segment as you work, but you would like them to be clearly visible as a reference for the translator to help clarify meaning or give guidance on the maximum number of…

Remove Unused CSS to Reduce the Size of your Stylesheets

The CSS files of your website may have several redundant rules that are no longer used by any element on the web pages. For instance, you may have added a site search box on your website and associated styles went into the stylesheet. Later, if you decide to remove that search box, the styles may continue to exist in your CSS though they aren’t being used anywhere.

These unused entries in your…