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This is the repository for One More Voice. One More Voice is a digital humanities recovery project that identifies, documents, and critically engages with the voices of racialized creators in British imperial and colonial archives. The voices take multiple forms and appear in multiple genres. Our project seeks to introduce these rich and diverse materials to broad academic and public audiences. Recourse to the voices promises to transform our understanding of imperial and colonial history and literature while foregrounding perspectives that scholarship in majority has hitherto overlooked or silenced.
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CSS minifiction #14

Closed jduss4 closed 3 years ago

jduss4 commented 3 years ago

You have some CSS which is all minified into one long line. As far as serving to the web is concerned, this is a good thing! But as far as development goes, this is a lot of work for you to edit. This is another check in the "web framework or generator" argument's camp, since most of those will let you work on a "pretty" CSS (or even SCSS!) file and then when you deploy / serve the website, it will crunch it into a minified CSS file for you.

I'm mentioning this because I wanted to make a change to your CSS while I was working on that viewport issue and it was very difficult for me to find what it was I wanted to change. I imagine that you have this problem, also, when you want to edit the website.

awisnicki commented 3 years ago

Thanks for making this point. Duly noted. Right now when I want to edit CSS, I work directly in the browser. (Note: Firefox automatically prettifies the CSS, while Chrome dev tools has a "Format" button that does the same thing, so the minification isn't an issue). Once I've sorted out the code I need, I move it into a dev/unminified version of the given CSS file, then I minify that using a basic online minifier and use the minified version of the file online. The workflow here therefore is a touch clunky, but isn't that bad and works well enough for me. That said, I of course wouldn't mind an easier workflow and, per our discussion in email and your suggestion in one of the other issues, am definitely ready to look into a static site generator and other such options.

Please feel free to close this issue once you've seen my response.

jduss4 commented 3 years ago

Makes sense! Sounds like it is working fine for you now! :)