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HTML Illiteracy (Part 2 of 2) Styling And Failwind Stupid
Right out of the gate let me show you the finished template that I started in part 1, as I’d like to discuss numbers and methodology before I break down the how/what/why of the CSS.
You can find it here:
https://cutcodedown.com/for_others/medium_articles/failwindUI/shotlight/shotlight.html
As with all my examples the directory is unlocked for easy browsing:
https://cutcodedown.com/for_others/medium_articles/failwindUI/shotlight/
And there’s a .rar of the whole shebang in there so you can play around with it.
And yes, that’s not a perfect 1:1 because I fixed what I consdier to be layout issues, waste of whitespace hampering UX, inaccessible font sizes, the ugly use of those garbage “system font” stacks that result in cross-platform inconsistency, and all the illegible colour contrasts to the point I could barely even see that it had a flipping light/dark toggle. Though that last part I suspect is my astigmatism making me WAY more sensitive about accessibility…