The Ithaca Weather page is the first one I chose to modernize from its antiquated 1990s format. It is one of the least viewed pages on the site and half the links were broken, so little harm could be done if it went wrong. After separating all the styling out into its own CSS file, I tweaked a few things.
The image at the top now has rounded corners. The link to my main page has been moved into a “footer” div that is in a fixed location against the bottom of the screen. This required lengthening the page content so that none of it is hidden behind the footer when the window is not tall enough. Also, an “About this page” link has been added to the footer that will show all blog posts that include the “Weather” tag. I hope to use footers like this on all the pages that I update.
I developed the page on Chrome, then tested in on Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Are developers still obligated to test it on Internet Explorer? I am not going to try Opera and Safari as their usage is too low. I looked at it on my Android phone and all was well, though that may just have been lucky due to the narrow content. I’ll study that problem more when I update some of the other pages.
I would like to come back to this page sometime and make it show something interesting based on calls to a weather API.