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[Gmail] Gradient Labels! & Other Add-Ons

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:23:52 GMT

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[3] Tutorial: How to Make a Gradient (Advanced Edition? Kinda?)

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:30:11 GMT

Posted by: lina_trinch

Gradients are those different colors or rainbows or whatever that all blend together, like so:

And now we're going to learn how to do them. But before we get started, you should know that they won't work everywhere. Like you can't use a gradient as a font color or something. They do work in places you can make css work, though, like journal entries or layouts.

Anyway, let's go ahead and get started. There's a surprising amount to it.

However! This guide at w3schools will cover all of the basics. You'll learn about how to make them, how angles work, repeating patterns, transparency, and linear/radial shapes.

In here, we're going to cover a few other things.

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[2] Tutorial: RGBA Color Codes

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:49:23 GMT

Posted by: lina_trinch

So we all know what COLORS are and most of us know what hex codes are. As a refresher, they're those color codes that look like #f70202 or #2f00ff.

But RGBA codes are something that are still relatively new to me. I explained how they worked in a post for an old code of mine but I'm going to repeat that here.

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[1] Tutorial: How to Make Your Sticky Entry Stand Out

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:26:29 GMT

Posted by: lina_trinch

So you've probably noticed on this comm, that I have a message pinned at the top about coding requests. It looks all fancy and is there to catch the eye. In fact, you've probably noticed similar things on other comms and journals.

All of those messages are sticky entries with a little css help involved. I'm going to tell you how to make your own, but you might need to know a little bit about css to customize your entry however you prefer. All I know is that it took me forever to figure out, so I thought I might as well tell you guys about it, too.

For some extra css help, check out w3schools.
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