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You've seen it on lots of websites (including this one!): a little bit of text below a headline telling you the article will take X amount of time to read. How is this done, and how can you add this to your site? The Formula It can be
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In English and other languages based on an alphabet, casing is used to describe the style of text for when upper and lowercase letters should be used. Sometimes these styles are easy to identify and use; some are more complex than they appear at first. Here's a breakdown
Accessibility
It's a HUGE mistake to choose an H3 just because it has the correct style. Using tags to style the page may be hurting your accessibility and SEO all at once. Here's how to fix.
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I found a bug I was really worried I couldn't fix. I had made a feature on a site in which cards could be flipped over to reveal more information when you click on them. It was working great until someone tried it on their iPhone, and it
Django
The foreign key (or many-to-many) gives you a way to access/connect another model. related_name is how you can access the reverse relation: from that other model back to the one you've added the field to. If related_name is not set, the default is the model
Django
This error typically relates to trying to add a field to your search_fields, but the field is not actually text—perhaps it’s a ManyToManyField or a ForeignKey. Given the following, we want to be able to search our tags when we're in the Blog List View
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We can use the colon (:) to get the first n (number) of items in a list, the last n items, and some combo of those in between. This is called "slicing" in python. Say we have a list of four items: >>> my_list = ['a&
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There are two ways to do this: 1) Add a hard-coded admin link in the template or 2) Build a link in the views.py and put it in a context variable so you can use it in multiple apps or models. Bonus: we'll make a modification for
VS Code
You can use ANSI Escape Codes to color or highlight text printed to the command line without installing extra packages. Just like a mark-up language, we can use a colored escape code followed by the text and ending with a reset escape code to tell the terminal to change the
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There's no doubt: images hit your site's load time the hardest 9 times out of 10. If you're struggling with performance due to slow load times, audit your images and I would recommend converting them into .webp images. Here's how you can
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Although I've played very different roles for different companies over the years (designer, social media manager, developer), I've always been a part of the Marketing department. That means I have identified a lot of overlap in quality assurance with my work. We, marketers, love content that
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There is a post here on NDT that can help you get the file extension separated from the filename. One problem: how do we preserve the full filename when there are multiple periods? Let's back up. There are wise Internet people out there who have made the argument