Mandaris

I stopped by the European chapter of the IndieWeb group during my lunch and I feel that I got a lot of out it. We went over a lot of different things but here are some of my favorite highlights.

4 oh 4 pages

I joined the meeting late and caught the tail end of discussions about what other people do when someone tries to go to a URL that doesn’t exist under their domain. I remember seeing some sites redirecting the user to the home page after a minute or two or showing links to other pages that match some kind of pattern within the url.

IndieWeb Movie Club

Mark Sutherland will be spearheading this month’s movie club. The topic will be any version of Romeo & Juliet. I originally planned on the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet because that’s the one that has my favorite version of Tybalt, but I might just go with Gnomeo & Juliet instead.

Mad as a Hatter

Just a moment where we took some time to get a hat from around where we live and put it on.

Serious stuff.

Validating my Feelings/Website

We had a very nice discussion on what makes a page valid. We started with what colors someone should use when putting together and what considerations to make. I tooted my own horn about how my webpage is valid only to find that it has a lot of things that some validators might not like.

It further emphasized the point that you should continually test your site. Things do change over time and it gives you a chance to rethink things. In my case, I got a chance to question whether my choice of having meta tags containing the trailing slash like the following:

<meta itemprop="wordCount" content="23" />

For me, it’s a reminder of the connection between HTML and XML. At some point, I have to make the decision on when is enough enough.

I also think I found what was causing the issue with my header.

I was using text-wrap: balance for all headers and it was causing some unforeseen problems when it comes to having an image in the header. I removed it and haven’t seen the issue since.