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How I built a responsive & semantic "Contact Me" page in under 16KB

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A website which looks like a phone homescreen.

Recently, I've become obsessed with the speed and efficiency of my web sites. I'm in the middle of slimming down this blog - but I thought I'd take a first attempt at my contact site - https://edent.tel/ A few weeks ago, the .tel registry released their domain restrictions - users can now host their site anywhere. I'd already experimented with about.me/edent as a contact site - but even that…

Selecting Text In Images - Pure SVG, No JavaScript

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Recently, I wanted to embed an photograph of a book page. I thought it would be nifty if the text from the page could be selected. If you hover your mouse over this image, you should be able to select part of the text. Ideally, it will look something like this... It even works on Android (tried on Chrome, Opera, FireFox) and iOS 7. So, how did I do it? Originally, I was pointed to…

Inkscape - cropping SVG files on the Command Line

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Logo for Inkscape.

A little post as an aide-mémoire. I've found a lovely set of SVG playing cards. The only problem is each image is displayed within a page. This means the relatively small cards have an enormous white margin. Within Inkscape (the vector image editor for Linux) it's possible to crop the margins by going to: "File → Document Properties → Resize Page To Content → Resize page to Drawing or Select…