675: Building Hot Page with Tim Farnam
Tim Farnam stops by to talk with Chris and Dave about his new project, Hot Page, and why and how he started building it after working in print and web news.
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Time Jump Links
- 00:55 Introducing Tim
- 02:01 What is Hot Page?
- 04:17 How did you get started in web dev?
- 10:08 Writing for print vs for the web
- 13:49 Sponsor: Design Tokens Course
- 14:33 Where did you get the idea for Hot Pages?
- 18:08 How did you decide on the design style for Hot Pages?
- 21:32 Walking through editing a page with Hot Pages
- 26:57 The benefit of utility classes instead of inline styles
- 28:59 Sponsor: Design Tokens Course
- 29:22 Editing JavaScript and style
- 32:31 Are we talking web components?
- 35:03 This isn't technically a CMS
- 38:55 How are changes saved?
- 41:10 Making pages and repeating elements
- 46:04 Come to Chris and Dave for all your marketing advice
- 51:21 Sponsor: Design Tokens Course
- 51:40 Getting prototyping vibes
- 57:13 It's beta but it's out
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