I set this site up on GitHub pages and the address http://www.davepotts.software was working just fine. The other day I noticed that if you tried to load the site without the "www." you ended up at a domain parking page of my DNS provider.
The fix so ...
read moreI'm working to get this blog site to pass the Google mobile friendly site test. In the last post I fixed the viewport. In this post I'm going to fix the "Content wider than screen" warning.
Switching Chrome into developer tools mode (press F12 on Windows), and choosing ...
read moreThis blog site didn't pass the Google mobile friendly site test. I'm going to publish some posts describing how I updated the blog site to make it pass.
Step one is this post: fixing the viewport.
The viewport is a HTML meta tag that tells small screen devices ...
read moreI've been experimenting with Google Optimize and have tripped up a couple of times. First I made the assumption that Google Tag Manager would be the best way to implement the experiments. Second I didn't appreciate the linkages needed through to Google Analytics required to make Optimize work ...
read moreIn order to learn how to write chrome extensions I wanted to write an extension that would display the title from the current page in a popup like this:
The first thing to work out about Chrome extensions is the context within which they run. There are two cases. First ...
read moreYesterday I got my invite through to Google Optimize, Google's new A/B testing tool. I'm going to experiment to see how it works.
I'd like to see how this works with a quick A/B test. I'm going to make a Matrix inspired page ...
read moreAfter spending a couple of hours sweating to get python to send email using Gmail, application passwords etc. I found the Mailgun email service which makes programmatically sending emails so much easier.
read moreI'm working with the kids to have a web-based system for who is allowed in the bathroom next. Hence 'PQ', the queue for a pee. The plan is to have a simple idea to work on a web project and try out some new tools in the process.
The ...
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