👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
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My parents went to Teekay office to officially file for Papa’s resignation. He served there for 25 years already. He resigned to get the remaining cash to invest into the car wash business. I am very proud of my father for sacrificing his time and strength to put us in good schools. And undoubtedly, my mother, who was physically there to guide us while growing up. I will always be grateful for my parents.
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After building the Content Structure (HTML) of your website, the next step in the process is building its Visuals (CSS).
To be able to ease the process of writing the style sheets, we must segment it into levels:
- Level 1: Default (browser level)
- Level 2: Normalize (boilerplate level)
- Level 3: Modify (visibility and sizes level)
- Level 4: Template (functionality level)
- Level 5: Theme (custom level)
Ideally, each level must be buildt on top of the previous one yet still independent. For example, leaving the style sheet at browser level must present usable information. The same principle applies as one builds the style sheet level per level.
Level 3: Modify
Related Activities
- hide accessible names
- hide components
- set default state of components thru class names
- active element padding
- spacings (margins between components and paddings around components)
- dimensions are set at 100% for Mobile-First
Level 4: Template
Related Activities
- set the functionality of utilities such as Search and Navigation
Level 4: Theme
Related Activities
- colors
- background colors/images
- icons
- visual elements (badges, logos, lines/borders, shadows, corner radius)
- borders
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In time for the celebration of International Women’s Day today – we celebrate women’s achievements, we call for greater equality. #MakeItHappen
It is good news that Philippines ranks number 9 out of 142 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2014. This means that the gap between genders in many aspects of our economy is getting slimmer.
And what is it to us as a country?
People and their talents are two of the core drivers of sustainable, long-term economic growth. If half of these talents are underdeveloped or underutilized, the economy will never grow as it could. Multiple studies have shown that healthy and educated women are more likely to have healthier and more educated children, creating a positive, virtuous cycle for the broader population. Research also shows the benefits of gender equality in politics: when women are more involved in decision-making, they make different decisions—not necessarily better or worse—but decisions that reflect the needs of more members of society.
~ Klaus Scheab – Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
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I’m currently working on HopScotch 3 and it involves a lot of revising the HTML markup of content structure plus a lot of structural class names.
In relation to this HTML refactoring, I’d like to share with you some notes on writing the HTML markup of web sites:
- Text. Begin by writing in plain text all the important content your web site has. For example, you might have a web site logo – translate it into words; if you web site has a tagline or description, write that too.
- Tag. Follow it up by wrapping each text content in its semantic HTML tag. Avoid using
divorspanjust yet. For example, your web site name should be wrapped in a heading tag likeh1since it is the title of your HTML document; your tagline could be wrapped in aptag. At this point, all heading tags could be inh1since we have not put these objects in context yet. Eventually, we would be arranging the hierarchy of these tags – fromh1toh6. - Group. This is where div and span will come into play. You will have to group and segment the objects based on semantics and not on visual appearance. For example, you could wrap both the web site name and tagline in one
div. - Classify. Put the class names into the grouped structure of the objects. For example, theÂ
divthat contains the web site name and tagline could be classified as “web-product-name”. The test for its semantics is if the name is true to the objects’ nature – something that isn’t tied up to visual appearance or layout. - Format. To add another level of semantics and structure to the objects, we could use Microformats. It uses a vocabulary of class names that give structure to common content such as a person’s information, a movie’s information, an organization’s information and much more.
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Similar to UI State (which only has active or inactive), UI Condition can be anything to describe the condition of an object.
Example
To denote that an article entry does not have content, we add the class ui-cond__entry--blank which translates to “the UI condition of entry is blank”.
<div class="ui-cond__entry–blank"> … </div>
Structural Classes are classes that denote hierarchy in HTML tags particularly in div tags.
Example: Structure of a Component
[html]
<div class="comp">
<div class="cr">
<h class="accessible-name"></h>
<div class="ct">
Content
</div>
</div>
</div>
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Please note that h denotes a heading tag that varies from 1 to 6 depending on the HTML 4 outline.
The Structural Classes in this example are the following:
comp(component)cr(container)accessible-name(heading or official name)ct(content).
Maximum Number of Classes
While building the structure, we will put generic and specific class names into each area. The suggested maximum number of classes to add into a single div is two (2).
The first class to be added is the generic class – which is basically, what the component is. The second class – if available – is the category it belongs to – which will become the specific class – this is usually inherited from its parent.
Example of Generic Class
In this example, we’ll use the Author Component.
The Author Component is part of an article byline wherein the name of the author is indicated (along with the date the article was published).
Name of component (generic class): Author
Category of component (specific class): Article Entry
Using this information, we can plot the classes into the structure.
[html]
<div class="comp author_comp article-entry-author_comp">
<div class="cr author_cr article-entry-author_cr">
<h class="accessible-name"></h>
<div class="ct author_ct article-entry-author_ct">
Content
</div>
</div>
</div><!– article-entry-author_comp –>
[/html]
This structure now features the following:
- a generic class (author_comp) which will be used in any instance of author in the HTML document
- specific class (article-entry-author_comp) which could be used to directly select the component (e.g., for use in CSS)
Other Guidelines
The objects inside ct (content) could simply have their generic classes – just like with the heading tag which only has accessible-name as its class.
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