Devlog 4

• used NASA’s APOD API to fetch the image of the day to use as bg
• added featture to let user add custom shortcuts to the page
• added a special font for the time

Devlog 3

• This session was all about improving the UI
• added animations to serachbar, shortcuts and time display
• the searchbar has greadient border and a blur effect when focused and its width also extends
• the shortcuts section also fade in with some animation delay
• time slides up, like its comming from below the searchbar

up next

• bg image
• let user change shortcuts
• maybe fetch some news and display it

Devlog 2

• added time display
• now the selected search engine is saved in local storage and reloaded on page refresh
• also chagned the placeholder text according to the selected serach engine
• dynamically poopulated the shortcuts from an array of objects instead of hardcoding them in HTML
• imporved the responsiveness of shortcuts seciton

I found an amazing URL that is basically a servies of google which i can use to get the favicon of any site i used that to get the icons for nay website user want to add as shortcuts

Devlog 1

• created a simple page with a search bar and option to select a serach engine

• also added a few dummy shortcut links

• this project is my 2nd try at “Give your website a pulse” mission, last time i used react to make a project of similar kinds, but i got flagged as AI, i tried to update the ui still reviewer says AI, so i just abandoned it, i tried conta ting the support on slack but no replies

• so i picket it up this time in plain html css and js not react , this is exciting i am like going to write html csss js the old way after writing in react for last 2 years