Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2016
Sliders and carousels were a really hot design trend a few years ago. You would’ve been hard-pressed to find a website that didn’t have some sort of rotating element on the homepage – especially above the fold. But then something changed. Designers and developers started to abandon sliders for static imagery. As the interest in minimalistic designs and longer scrolling …
Are you thinking about using the REST API for your WordPress site? Maybe you’ve been reading all about it, are intrigued but are put off by some of the disadvantages of working with JavaScript that you may have heard about. When it comes to getting to grips with JavaScript and the REST API, it’s not unusual to be a bit …
Jobs come and go. But your personal brand stays. Consider your brand your life raft for when life’s seas turn rough. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Back when I was starting out as a web designer and developer, my biggest problem was getting stuff to work the way I wanted it to. I was concerned more about getting things (mostly) working as I expected them to be. Getting things to look snazzy was usually one of my primary goals when finishing a website. WordPress security was …
Once upon a time, we lived in a world where websites had screaming neon colors and an overabundance of text to entertain and educate us. The Internet (think Geocities…) was a bright and shiny new place for us to play and, as web developers, we did the best we could, considering the circumstances: HTML, low screen resolution, limited color sets, …
photo credit: Maciej Korsan WordPress professionals have demonstrated a decent appetite when it comes to listening to and supporting podcasts on a wide variety of topics, including industry news, development, e-commerce, marketing, and startups. Cory Miller, founder of iThemes, and Matt Danner, the company’s COO, are adding a new business podcast to the mix with the launch of Leader.team. The …
Objects are one of the most important and most powerful features of JavaScript and many built-in features use objects natively. Essentially, an object is a collection of properties, and a property consists of a key and a value. In this sense, objects in JavaScript are akin to associative arrays in PHP but the similarities end there. This is the second post …
WordPress strikes a good balance by offering users the ability to publish dynamic content via posts and static content via pages. However, if you’d like to use WordPress primarily as a static content management system without the features related to blogging, check out a new plugin developed by Fact Maven Corp. and Ethan Jinks O’Sullivan called Disable Blogging. Disable Blogging hides a number …
If you haven’t updated your theme this past year – or in even in recent years, gasp! – it’s probably about time you reviewed your site, checked out the current trends, and thought about how your design could be better. Because great designs aren’t just about flashy animations. With a well-thought out design, you not only grab your visitors’ attention, …
There are a few ways to get it right and a million ways to get it wrong. View original post at Entrepreneur…
