Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Full page background images CSS

If you want to cover the background of your web page, I suggest you do 2 things:
Reduce the file size of the image using the technique shown at https://orbitingweb.com/blog/optimizing-jpeg-images/. You should make sure you are using the correct image format. Here is a guide https://www.diffen.com/difference/JPEG_vs_PNG.
Use the following CSS code in your stylesheet:
html {
  background: url(img/bg.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  -moz-background-size: cover;
  -o-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='img/bg.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='.img/bg.jpg', sizingMethod='scale');
}

Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Thumbnail images for Vivaldi browser Speed Dial page

I've been using the Vivaldi browser a lot lately. If you don't want screen dumps as the thumbnails for websites on the Speed Dial page, use these as a starting point.
https://github.com/guitarbeerchocolate/vivaldi-thumbnails

Thursday, 8 March 2018

Adding node.js applications to an existing LAMP installation

So you've already been developing lots of LAMP applications on your local server. You've moved into creating node.js applications. You want to continue, as before, with your LAMP applications, but add node.js applications in the same directories i.e /var/www/html/ and so on.
In that case you need to add a little to your Apache setup to help in this process.

Prepare Apache

In your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file:
Make sure these 2 lines are uncommented (or even exist)
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
Now add the following (it can be at the end if you like)
ProxyPass /mynodesite http://localhost:8000

Restart Apache

systemctl reload apache2

Create the application file

Create a file in /var/www/html/mynodesite called app.js and insert the following:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World!\n');
}).listen(8000, '127.0.0.1');

Run the app

node app.js

Now the browser

Open the browser with the address http://localhost/mynodesite
Hey presto!