Modern Coding Has Made It Easier For Normal People To Build Websites

In a far cry from the web design standards that had existed during the Internet's infancy, it is considered baseline for a website to have interactive elements instilling a sense of vibrancy without forcing the reader's browser to slowly load large files. This standard is universal in part because the latest versions of multiple scripting languages can be easily made to work in unison to produce effects that appear smooth and sophisticated despite being the product of syntax that is not all that complicated.

Through a marriage of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, what would have once taken specialized software and advanced programming concepts can be achieved by non-professional web designers. Websites like codepen.io offer environments where such designers can both demonstrate innovative concepts for web effects and share the code behind them for anybody else to copy and make use of in their own works. An example project uses visibly displayed CSS and JavaScript code to execute a concept for an online photo gallery that is arranged as a grid.

When the window for a given photo is clicked, the dimensions of the window expand both horizontally and vertically to reveal the rest of the photo in a way that does not make the image itself appear to stretch or magnify in size. Each window initially gives the impression that it is only displaying the upper left corner of an image that appears to be "hiding" behind the rest of the dark space and the other photographs' respective windows. Meanwhile, when a window expands, all the rest of the windows dynamically move out of the way without the need for complex code having painstakingly been written to dictate every position and motion.

Perhaps the most impressive facet of the project's design is that the images have not been consciously picked by the author. Each time the project is loaded, an entirely new set of photos is generated by randomly picking a selection of photos uploaded at an off-site resource. There is even a feature that lets the user generate an extra window containing another photograph picked from that same resource. For more information click here https://v.redd.it/om7yphb6xdf61.