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flexbox-blog

This is a simple blog layout that I created in 2018 to dip my toes into flexbox layouts. I recently re-visited the project and felt it still had some potential, but running it through Lighthouse made it clear that some work needed to be done before I could even consider this as a potential layout template.

Initial Lighthouse scores

After seeing these scores I spent a Sunday afternoon making improvements wherever possible and the project is now looking much better.

Updated Lighthouse scores

To get this project up to speed (ahem) I did the following:

re-linked some missing resources
removed Font Awesome and replaced those icons with .svgs
Removed Google Fonts and replaced with system fonts
Replaced SoundCloud embeds with YouTube Embeds and a facade
Addressed some accessibility issues (contrast, heading order, etc.)
Fixed some small markup issues

The project could still use some adjustments to make it truly template ready. I don't love that it uses jQuery for the dropdown menus, and the stylesheet can definitely be greatly reduced in size.

I've also opened an issue to verify the semantics of the markup

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remove jQuery

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Consider removing jQuery from the project. We're using a couple of dropdown menus that rely on jQuery, but these can be replaced or converted to vanilla js

verify semantics of markup

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I think it's pretty close already, but the initial version had some issues that suggest a low priority audit might be worthwhile

clean up style sheet

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This project is originally from 2018 and the .scss files are kind of all over the place. The result is a stylesheet that is probably more than 3 times what should actually be needed.

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