Exciting Development and A Problem Solved
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Exciting Development and A Problem Solved

June 21, 2019 | 

We've got some exciting work on our hands today! Last night, I watched a video tutorial on how to implement a simple parallax scrolling feature in CSS, and it inspired me to try to incorporate one into my site. Since I've already planned to use a carousel feature on my "Project Portfolio" page, I figured the "About Me" page might be a good place to use the parallax. Since I'd like to include some information about my hobbies as well as my technical/professional skills there, I think some pictures and the interactive aspect of the parallax would really add to the page's value. My goal is to have a fully functioning parallax scrolling feature with all of the pictures I'd like to use by the end of the day. Then, over the weekend, I'd like to flesh out the rest of page with text describing everything. That feels manageable, and I'm excited to see the page come to life. In other news, I finally discovered why some of the changes I was making to my custom.css file were not being reflected in my website. Up to this point, I hadn't been aware that previous versions of my site were being cached to reduce loading time. Though this will certainly be a useful feature once my site is near completion, it was proving to be quite inconvenient during development. Thanks once again to the community over at StackExchange, I found a quick band-aid solution to this problem. To prevent my browser from caching previous versions of my website, I simply included the meta tag: "<meta http-equiv="pragma" content='no-cache' />" in my base.html document. Once my site is closer to deployment, I'll likely remove this tag as caching can improve the user's experience significantly. At any rate, that's all I have for now. Hopefully I'll have good news to share about the parallax development in the near future! -Joe

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