Small Web September Check-In 2: Halfway House/Troubleshooting!

[enchantedsleeper]

Somehow, we’re already (nearly) halfway through the month of September 😱 Where has the time gone?!

How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!

It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!

Here are some question prompts for this check-in:

• How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
• What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
• What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?

As a reminder, this is the second of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on them, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide; all discussion is welcome.

For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!

Comments

[le_gaosaure]

Hmm, I'm not sure "rem" would solve that specific problem... From what I understand (and apologies if I don't make sense, I'm slightly feverish aha ^^"""): pixels are pixels, so far so good. Em are a multiplier on the default size and "stack" based on the parent element; currently most web browsers display text at 16px if you don't give any size so this is the base default: 1em = 16px, but if you size elements inside other elements you will get the multiplicative effect. Rem are also a multiplier on the default size, and use the same size as reference so 1rem = 16px, but they don't "stack" because the R in rem is for "root" so it's always compared to the root element's default, not to the current element's default. So if something looks "normal sized" on computer and tiny on mobile with em, there's no obvious reason for rem to act differently. I'd be more suspicious of a size in pixels or % having sneaked in (and I can't remember how % work for size right now and I'm too tired to look it up aha ^^""").