Monthly Archives: February 2017

Different Options for Empty Web Links

Posted on February 28, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

While working on yesterday’s post I noticed, apparently after far too long, that the Intro link on my site’s main page failed to run the animation when clicked. More accurately, it would run a frame or two of it and … Continue reading →

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A Bit About Website Navigation in JavaScript

Posted on February 27, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I had the idea that I wanted to suppress the introductory animation on my site’s main page when navigating back to it from other pages within the site (i.e., if coming from another page in the rpchurchill.com domain). This is … Continue reading →

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Website Update Complete

Posted on February 23, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

The static pages are finally complete and QCed. That’s all I have energy for. Have a great weekend!

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Data Collection: Minimum Sample Size

Posted on February 22, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

While searching my hard drive for images representative of data collection I stumbled upon something I’ve also had in mind to look for, which is guidance on how to determine the minimum required sample size. The formulas are usually variations … Continue reading →

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GitHub — Ya Gotta Start Somewhere

Posted on February 21, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I’ve had brief encounters with GitHub over time but not enough to gain any muscle memory. As I’m finalizing the last bits of static content for my website, learning how to work with GitHub makes a good side project. https://github.com/rpchurchill … Continue reading →

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Website Update Update

Posted on February 20, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I continued to tweak the meta tag settings on some of the pages to get them to look right on mobile devices. I got to test things on several different phones yesterday, which helped a lot. What I came up … Continue reading →

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Website Update Mostly Complete

Posted on February 16, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I slogged through and got the hard part done. Migrating the WordPress installation down one directory was blissfully easy and the rest of it was just applying elbow grease and being thorough. It’s nice having a true landing page. That … Continue reading →

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Website Update In Progress

Posted on February 15, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I’m in the process of hand-editing all of the static webpages and I think it’s coming together reasonably. Doing these pages over and over again makes it clear that I should be doing at least the simplest level of automation, … Continue reading →

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Responsive Design: One Observation

Posted on February 14, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

I try to keep digging until I understand things from first principles if it’s at all practical. I won’t claim I’m above settling for a temporary fix if there’s a deadline or so I can move on for a while, … Continue reading →

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Random Explorations

Posted on February 13, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

Over the past few weeks I met two nice people who have both built websites based on Jekyll (the newer one was actually based on OctoPress). As I’m redoing my website I’m trying to find a good way to make … Continue reading →

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