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Dustin Usey is a Developer and Treehouse Technical Evangelist with a specialty in all things Frontend. Based in the southern United States.
September 19, 2022 in Learn
Hamburger menus are great for toggling a mobile navigation. Adding slick animations to show the open or closed state can be tricky but I will explain how this can be done pretty easily. Let’s get started. 😎 If video tutorials…
August 23, 2022 in Learn
Being able to search and/or filter through your website’s data is a great feature to implement for your users and setting it up isn’t as hard as you may think. It just requires a little bit of JavaScript. Today, I…
August 17, 2022 in Learn
Ever wondered how to shorten text with an ellipsis? It’s quite easy to do and only requires a few lines of CSS. Follow along as I take you through setting this up! Also, if you’re interested in checking out the…
August 15, 2022 in Learn
Accordions are all over the web and mobile apps. They are a great way to show and hide content based on user interaction and aren’t very hard to build but usually require a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Did…
August 3, 2022 in Learn
Today, we’ll go over how we can transform a regular checkbox input element to a responsive toggle switch. It’s not as hard as you may think and only involves CSS. No JavaScript. So let’s get into it! If you get…
July 28, 2022 in Learn
What is a favicon? When creating a website, you may overlook something small like the favicon. The favicon, which is short for ‘favorite icon’, is a small, 16×16 image used on browsers to give your space visual representation. Many popular…
July 26, 2022 in Learn
How often do you find yourself on a website or app looking for a toggle for dark mode? Most apps now-a-days, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & Snapchat just to name a few, use some sort of dark mode feature. Implementing…
June 7, 2022 in Learn
Setting up gulp using gulp.js Introduction to gulp.js What is gulp? According to their homepage (gulpjs.com), it’s a toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow. What exactly does that mean? Well, for medium to large-sized projects you may want to have a…
May 17, 2022 in Community
Ever found yourself at a restaurant wishing you could figure out how to split the bill with your friends or family? Building a calculator that can handle that isn’t as hard as you think! I am going to take you…