An Incomplete List of Tonight's HTML/CSS Adventures:

[wobblegong]

Remembered I can manually set font size in em units and decided that baking big letters into a particular paragraph was more satisfying than using a header.

Got annoyed this resulted in less extra space after than using a header, so kludged that in with an aggressively improper use of margin:bottom.

Kludged an entire paragraph into italics with font-style:italic.

Got confused and look up what the difference between italic and oblique is. Answer: kinda nothing but sometimes something, depending.

Didn't understand why font-style:bold didn't do anything. Found out that font-weight is its own thing.

Chose violence. Pranced over to Cohost Markdown Plus to see if I could figure out how to make text spin in a circle.

Pasted the results into the Circlejourney editor to discover they didn't move. Made one bad attempt at troubleshooting. Admitted this was so many tiers beyond me to troubleshoot that I should just give up and gave up.

Had a new bad idea and backtracked to the Mozilla helpdoc for transform: rotate.

Unlocked upside-down text.

:)

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Footnotes:

1. The context was working on a toyhou.se character profile as a non-premium user. On toyhou.se you're only entitled to CSS sheets if you give them money; free users have access to regular HTML options (not unlike Dreamwidth's post editor). However, baking CSS into your HTML is, while a crime against happiness and good coding practices, very legible to web browsers, so with sufficient cussedness an unsupervised creatura can achieve more than basic paragraphs, headers and lists.
2. With that context, and despite my post, my real win for the session was realizing/remembering that I could save an HTML template in Notepad++... as a file... so that next time I want to use the template... I could make a copy of the file....
• ("What were you doing before??" Hunting down the page that used the template I wanted, copying it into Notepad++, then spending 5 minutes trying to clean the contents out so just the template formatting was left without accidentally blowing the template up with a wayward >. And then closing the window, unsaved, when I was done.)
• (If it wasn't already clear from this post, I am not a programmer and should not be trusted let alone imitated.)
3. Anyways I don't plan on making the upside-down text a regular thing, but after my studious prioritization of accessibility considerations (I will sooner fall on my keyboard than hardcode background colors!) I'm going to say that I may use a little every once in awhile on fluff/unimportant text. As a treat.

Comments

Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Pranced over to Cohost Markdown Plus to see if I could figure out how to make text spin in a circle.<<

If you're new here from Cohost, then you might like newcomers which is covering the shutdown and providing resources about Dreamwidth. You can introduce yourself in the Friending Meme or find your Cohost friends if you wish. These are also resources you can share with other folks riding the wave from Cohost.

Re: Hello!

[wobblegong]

Thank you for checking in on me! I'm actually in the mildly strange position of having been here on Dreamwidth for years predating cohost's existence, if admittedly more as a lurker than poster. But the networking resources are always handy! Looks like you've put more than a little elbow grease into running some of them, too, so thank you for that. 🥚🐜💕

Re: Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Thank you for checking in on me! I'm actually in the mildly strange position of having been here on Dreamwidth for years predating cohost's existence, if admittedly more as a lurker than poster.<<

People familiar with both Dreamwidth and Cohost are especially valuable now in helping the new users get started. If you've been here more than a few months, you're ahead of the wave who just joined in September or October. If you feel like posting about your experiences or tips for new users, you're welcome on newcomers.

>> But the networking resources are always handy! <<

Yay! I've found a few new tools myself, and I've been here for years.

>> Looks like you've put more than a little elbow grease into running some of them, too, so thank you for that. <<

Yeah, I saw twitter_refugees and the good it did, so later on I launched reddit_refugees. This time around, I wanted a community that would stay put, where I could just ramp it up for each new wave of folks coming from whatever platform had just pissed off its users or died the final death.

I like blogging, and want it to succeed. I've written a LOT of how-to materials for cyberspace -- like, my community parameters date back to the early 1990s, updated over time as venues have evolved. So currently I'm reaching out to Cohost refugees, trying to help them get the hang of Dreamwidth in hopes they'll stick around.