Getting Started on Prosser Firewise

Tachyons for Style

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Tachyons is a design system that allows you to design gorgeous interfaces in the browser with little effort.

Because Speed

Building this static site generator theme was the first time I used an Atomic (or Functional) CSS system like Tachyons. It’s a design system that provides very small (which means fast) CSS modules that you can use in your HTML. So, rather than writing every line of CSS, you apply the style you need as you write your HTML with easy to understand shorthand class names. This makes for a very powerful way to style, in the browser, or while building a static site like this one – since you can see every change with every save. It’s a joy to use.

CSS Grid Scaffold

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

“Grid is the very first CSS module created specifically to solve the layout problems we’ve all been hacking our way around for as long as we’ve been making websites.”

— Chris House, A Complete Guide to CSS Grid Layout ¹

Since I began building websites in Y2K, I’ve lost count how many times the phrase “…there’s got to be a better way to do this” has passed my lips. Most times, while fighting with floats and widths of content and sidebars or just basically trying to get something beside something else without using a stupid TABLE.

Built-in Contact Form

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Formspree makes it easy to receive submissions from HTML forms on your static website.

Functional Form

This theme has a form-to-email feature built in, thanks to the simple Formspree integration. All you need to activate the form is a valid recipient email address saved in the front matter of the form (/content/forms/contact.md). Of course, the example shown below (your@email.here) must not be used. Please use your actual email address.