mybigadventures.com

So I thought it was about time mybigadventures became a bit more mobile. When I recently re-designed the site I didn't think much about making everything work on smaller devices and having checked the website on my mobile this was pretty clear. The site looks great on my laptop where it has mostly been viewed but on smaller devices the text is too small and thtere's just too much going on. I didn't really want to start from scratch and make a mobile site so I went for a much faster and simpler solution using CSS media queries.

If you haven't used CSS queries before they're essentially a set of rules that you can add to the CSS to control when certain CSS styles should be applied. What this means in practice is that you can add media queries to test the width of the browser used to view your site and change the size of your content accordingly. In my case, to make the site more mobile friendly, at certain page widths I hide some of the content and increase the font size. The code looks a bit like this:

@media (max-width: 1199px) {
     p {
         font-size:140%;
     }
}

All this will do is if the browser width is less than 1200 pixels, it will increase the font size by an additional 40%. Simple! You can see this in practice if you're viewing the site using a destop or laptop computer. Just resize the browser window to make it smaller and watch the layout change. The downside of course is that because some of the content is simply hidden, it doesn't stop the device you're using from downloading it (so you're downloading content you'll never see). It also currently means that some of the content that enables you to interact with the website is currently unavailable (viewing anything other than the most current blog, logging in, adding comments). 

It's certainly far from perfect but it'll do the job for now.    

I'm up in Sheffield for mums birthday weekend and today we headed over to Shireoaks for their armed forces day fair. There were some army trucks and fighter jet cockpits to look at in addition to a drumming band and army assault course. The weather has been great, very sunny and warm with just a bit of a breeze. It's also the Steam Fair weekend so might try and see that tomorrow. I've added a few photos to the album linked below.

I awoke this morning to the news that the vote was in and Britain were out. I have to say it hasn't quite sunk in. I placed my vote on Thursday evening fully expecting to remain in the EU. The thought that a campaign to leave, riddled with rhetoric about closing borders and fronted by amongst others, UKIP's very own Nigel Farage, seemed like such a remote possibility that it hadn't even entered my mind that Leave was a possibility.

The outcome was a shock! It would seem over time I have surrounded myself with likeminded people. My facebook feed is full of people expressing similar disbelief. It simply never crossed my mind that this would happen, and that clearly 52% of people hold a very different outlook. I worry about what the future may hold.

Right now the pound has slid to a 30 year low, the government is squabbling for power on all sides and the primeminster has resigned. There seems to be a rise in racist outbursts all over the country and Britain feels like a very divided place. It remains to be seen what will happen, over the coming months and years but right now I feel that Britain has lost something, something that we may now never get back.