Posted 6 years ago
Webmaker tutorial tip: Run an animation when user opens a specific slide
Run an animation when the user opens a specific slide in your Thimble tutorial.
Posted 6 years ago
Seting Up Multiple Flask Apps
"How do I set up a website that runs mainly on Python and the Flask framework and consists of several unrelated Flask apps?"
Posted 6 years ago
Apply for a Webmaker Badge
Webmaker is releasing more web litteracy badges and I applied for a few.
Posted 6 years ago
SiteSummary: An API for social media data
The 2.2 update of Simple Sharing Buttons Generator, a tool that lets you add sharing buttons to your website without loading tons of unnecessary code, introduced a nice little feature: After filling out the URL, clicking the “magic wand” icon would automatically fetch the basic information about the website – title, description, associated Twitter handle and...
Posted 6 years ago
Webmaker Blog: Community Literacies #1
A nice write up about me in the first issue of Mozilla's Community Literacies.
Posted 6 years ago
Make your own social media sharing buttons
So you just finished your very first web app and you’d like to let other people share it on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or any other social network they use. This is really easy to do — most social media websites provide a code you can put on your website that takes care of everything for you. But you might be concerned about performance — typically...
Posted 6 years ago
Make your own “About Me” page, part I: Introduction to web fonts
Did you know that the <font> tag — a HTML tag that lets you change the style and color of the fonts on your page (and that is no longer supported in HTML5) — was introduced into HTML in 1995? That’s two years after the first version of HTML was standardized. And it wasn’t until 1996 that you could customize fonts with CSS. Follow tutorial...
Posted 6 years ago
Make your own web mashup
There are two major ways of consuming content on the web: you either use your browser to visit a website or you can directly “talk” to the site and ask for specific information using something called API (application programming interfaces). The second method lets you create websites that talk to other websites and combine the information they receive to create a mashup. Follow tutorial with Thimble
