>>7112458>Not sure what this means, I'm beginning with this, is there a better alternative?I can't speak for that person, but there's a whole clusterfuck of strong opinions people have about the right way to do web development. Generally arguments against jQuery in particular are one or more of: it used to be useful but has been eclipsed by developments in the JS standard, it teaches bad habits and abstracts away too much, it bogs down your project by requiring the user to load an unnecessary external lib.
Personally I don't use jQuery but that's mostly just my personal taste with respect to minimalism.
>Still having a fair bit of trouble with centering everything, and getting everything on the same grid-lines, its so fucking frustrating.What kind of centering are you looking for? Does this example help at all?
https://jsfiddle.net/hw8rekv1/ If you're trying to manage a grid, you may want to look into css-grid (display: grid;) which is purpose made for grid layout (pic related).
>>7112462>First, for a static page this would not "save" after the page is closed right?He's using localstorage to save the user's settings, this is persistent as long as the user doesn't clear their browser history (since users generally clear more than just history when doing so).
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage 