On Cookies

Cookies come in two different forms. You’ve got wonderful cookies that you can bake and eat; or you’ve got cookies on your computer, specifically on your web browser. Cookies aren’t something to be afraid of, but they can contain a lot more information than you’d like. These days, you may have heard of scary-sounding third party cookies and tracking cookies, which send information about what you are doing online. It all sounds worrisome, but don’t fret, these cookies won’t bite. Not all cookies are evil though. There are many essential cookies that help make sure that you are logged in,… [Continue Reading]

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Display: Flex

Back when I was little, we made websites using HTML and a bit of CSS, with PHP or ASP or Python to do server-side stuff and Javascript to do client-side stuff. These days, we still use HTML and a bit of CSS, alongside all those other things. But thanks to, well, science, technology and the W3C I guess, we can do soooo much more with just HTML and CSS. Like, for example, rounded corners. In the old days, we had to use images for rounded corners, or weird janky hacks if we wanted rounded corners on anything related to Internet… [Continue Reading]

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The Joys of CSS

No, I’m not talking about Counter-Strike: Source. I’m talking about Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets, better known as CSS, is a language used to make other languages look prettier. More specifically, it tells your web browser what a web page should look like. Even more specifically, CSS tells specific elements in your HTML what they should look like. Using CSS, you can make a background any colour you want, you can make text bigger and smaller, you can make links change colour when you hover and click on them, you can create menus, make pages mobile-friendly,  you can make… [Continue Reading]

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