beeps’ blog

Today marks 60 years since the official premiere of Star Trek, the cult classic television programme about an, at the time, unusually diverse cast of folks exploring space in the not-so-distant future. Since then, the franchise has seen an additional 11 television series, four miniseries, 14 movies, and an uncountable quantity of spin-off media. Something in the Star Trek canon has been in production for virtually the entirety of those six decades. I’ve banged on a lot about being a furry on…

For a long time now, the primary logo of my websites has been a kind of animal head with a gear inside of it. Originally, this was a nod to, well, being a furry obviously, but also to my online handle ‘querkmachine’. It’s like some sorta quirky machine furry, geddit? The ‘robat icon’. It became even more relevant when my fursona changed to become a robot bat (or ‘robat’, because I’m fun like that), and the logo was adapted slightly to match the silhouette of that character. It henceforth took…

The somewhat belated third (and probably final part) in my mini series about web form design. See part one, which focused on the kinds of questions you ask and part two, about visual design if you haven’t already. This post is going to cover technical implementation details from the frontend perspective. Inputs, labels, IDs Every single one of your <input>, <select> and <textarea> elements should have a <label> element associated with it. Always. Well… actually there are a lot of exceptions…