When developing a theme for WordPress, we talked about the importance of a good theme header, the header.php file. This includes not just the mast head of the HTML document that you see, but also the head tag, which includes the doctype, title, CSS links, and more. Likewise, it is important to close with a…
Breadcrumbs have been used since the time of Hansel and Gretal so people can find their way back from whence they came. Luckily, web bread crumbs work better than the ones that Hansel laid down. Basically, it is a way for users to see how deep in the web site’s navigation they’ve gone, and how…
Bootstrap provides a way to easily display an “alert” message. Essentially it is a background color, and foreground color which work together to make a message standout. An alert is generally going to be a simple block of text, and doesn’t have a lot of extra markups text. This works similarly to if you had…
Bootstrap provides numerous classes to help provide hints as to what content you should/shouldn’t show to users, based upon the size of their device. Using a prefix of visible- or hidden-, you can define if an element should be shown to a user or not the based upon the size of the user’s display device….
Bootstrap provides several helper classes to “help” you display information to your viewers. As you would assume, you can apply these helpers by adding the class(es) to your given tags. Colors You can apply different colors to your text, based upon the colors defined for primary, success, info, etc. This is via a class with…
There are a number of files that you can work on while you are building a theme. All of your Themes will involve the style.css file, and one or more PHP files. PHP, as you may remember, is a server side language. It will allow us to access the database, include external files, and more….
Menus are used to provide a way for end users to navigate through your website. You could require users to use the search widget, however, that would not be the easiest way to use your website, in most cases. To access your menus, go to Appearance > Menus. You theme will have one or more…
Creating a navigation is extremely important for any website. How you define and use your navigation will often define how well your site will perform. The navbar is the set of classes that Bootstrap uses to help you work on defining, building, and displaying your site navigation. It is also responsive, and if the browser…
