If your images are not displaying in Homebrewery, usually it’s because you are not using an URL to an actual image file. Especially if you are using Imgur. Imgur would prefer to serve up an link to a page on Imgur than just the image itself, because then you navigate to their site (where they … Images Not Working
How do I best write articles that help readers use the Homebrewery? Well, up until now that meant opening up a new Homebrewery document, writing out some markdown and CSS, copying that into WordPress (the CodePro plugin) and uploading a screenshot of the preview pane to paste into the article to show the result. That’s … New Year, New Editor
Someone asked how I would go about creating three columns in the Table of Contents with the 5ePHB theme. Well, if you are just using the default ToC snippet and you don’t have lots (or any) custom styling that interferes, this is what I would do: Just a note: This is basically a test post … Three Column Table of Contents
The Edit Page is where most of the action happens on the Homebrewery; the page has the heaviest UI with more buttons, forms, menus and other elements than any other page. Most of them today are all treated as unique items. When I started this redesign I wanted to see what components could be combined … HB Redesign: Editor
Taking a look now at the pages that you hope to not see, the Error page and it’s various errors. Hopefully I can make the pages a little less of a bummer to see by steering away from “errors as brew documents” and maybe even adding some additional info to the error message to make … HB Redesign: Error Pages
In this other post I talked about how I am doing a redesign of the front-end of the Homebrewery. There was a lot of preamble in that post, and I’m just going to link to it here. Vault The last post was about the smaller single unit of the Vault page, the ‘card’ that displays … HB Redesign: Vault
I’ve been working on a redesign of the Homebrewery UI for a few months now. I have sort of kept the open Pull Request on Github up to date with where I am at, but I realizing that I have a website related to the Homebrewery where I can talk through it. A few things … HB Redesign: BrewItem
While searching for something else, I came across this post on hedonic.ink about font choices for TTRPGs (May 2021). It’s actually a series of four posts, and I haven’t combed through each yet since I’m not pining for a new font at this particular moment, but I wanted to share it so that maybe more … Font Talk on Hedonic.ink
I just discovered a desktop program, FotoSketcher, that runs images through an automated process to add a paint-like effect to them. The result is similar to Photoshop filters (at least as I remember them existing probably a couple decades ago when I last used PS), but FotoSketcher is free, even for commercial use. It works … Paint Filters with FotoSketcher
Occasionally this question pops up on the /r/homebrewery subreddit or in Discord: “I don’t want my first sentence to have all caps, how do I remove it?”. The default D&D 5e theme for any new Homebrewery document includes this styling for the first line of the first paragraph after a top level “H1” header, which … Why is the first line all small caps?
Are you trying to create a PDF from your Homebrewery document, and finding a ~1 inch blank white space at the bottom of the page? Likely it is because your Print settings are set to output an A4 size page, and the Homebrewery is set to default to a U.S. Letter page size. You have … How to Fix Blank White Space at the Bottom
Quick housekeeping note: I turned off comments on the blog because it was 100% spam. Likely if you are here, you have received the link actually from me through discord or similar…comment there.
In this post I would like to talk about Tables in the Homebrewery because not only are they useful in homebrews but also because of how the Homebrewery takes a few steps outside of conventional Markdown with a custom extension of the table syntax. I’ll start with the most basic of tables using standard Markdown … Markdown, Homebrewery, and Tables
Recently someone on Discord was asking about how CSS Variables work which seemed like a good topic to cover on the blog. CSS Variables are a way to carry a defined property value to other properties across your style sheet. You define your variable with a value, and then you can use that variable elsewhere. … CSS Variables in the Homebrewery
In the last week I have read about and tried two new color palette tools: Poline and oklch.com. Both offer alternative methods of thinking about colors and easy to use tools for exploring those methods.