For this May’s jam, we want you to #TeachAThing or two 🍓

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Happy May! This month signals that the end of the school year is upon us, so why not procrastinate from our papers, assignments and grading by making a Glitch app that…teaches a thing . Whether it’s a tutorial, guides, or fan art about your favorite fun fact, this month we’re building apps that will make others say “today I learned!”

Head to glitch.com/jams right now to learn more about what jams are, how to submit your projects, and see what the community made for past jams. And a huge shouts out goes to all of you who participated in last month’s #coolbugs jam!

We can’t wait to learn, as well as see and share what creative projects you come up with!

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I am so going to create a website version of my CSS Animations tutorial!

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Here is my example :smiling_face:

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I initially thought of making a simple “fun facts” website, but I then stumbled upon a UFO sightings dataset, so I decided to make a simple website around reading random UFO sightings.

Link: htxtps://ufo-o-matic.glitch.me/

EDIT: I have now added a bigfoot sightings list, so the link is now https://sight-o-matic.glitch.me/

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Here’s my example: How to factory reset various network devices ensuring data is securely destroyed for things like change of ownership and reselling.

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Technically, anything you see in the sky that you do not have information about is, by definition, a UFO as UFO stands for “Unidentified Flying Object.” I love the website!

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Thanks! I decided to go with a simple, minimalistic design, I think it fits pretty nicely :slight_smile:

Also for the UFO thing, I went with it because the database I got everything from specifically mentioned UFOs. Idk if I should change the name

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I feel inspired to compile a massive linux tips and tricks cheatsheet for friends now =P

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This website is my codejam submission and it is called “NO MORE UGLY WEBSITES.” It has a nice guide (which I will expand) and some Tools and Inspiration to go along with it.

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A little tip to improve your website on how to improve websites: recommend some fonts and please make the text animations not be so long :slight_smile:

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Okay! I was defiantly going to add on to the Guide and I was considering making the animations shorter. Thanks for the suggestions!

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great work! I’d make the animations even shorter (my rule of thumb is < 500 ms unless it’s used for storytelling). also I would use max-width to say 768 or 1024px on the container div and use margin: 0 auto to center it so that the text would be easier to read on a large screen.

suggestions on resources

https://coolors.co/

https://flexbox.help/

and obviously mdn

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Here I am teaching how to use Wikidata (thing one) and Mapbox (thing two!), together.

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Yep! Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying to add on @wh0 onto the project (it is not working) but when/if it does he can help with that sort of thing.

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Other than mentioning bright on bright and dark on dark is unattractive, you could add that it’s an accessibility issue for people with vision problems and add a link to this accessibility validator showing them as “contrast errors”:
https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://nomoreuglywebsites.glitch.me/howto.html

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