‘Net Neutrality is the idea that all data is treated equal, regardless of where it comes from, or what type of data it is. Over the past few years, certain providers have been fighting to create a tiered system, where they can charge more for different services from different people. There is an in inherent…
“The Loop” is where most of your work is done. However, it isn’t a single file. Rather, it is the part of the file which WordPress send your content to. Here you will have your different files, archive.php, category.php, single.php, etc. These different files will all have their own loop. But these files will not…
Most all themes will have a sidebar file. This will provide the sidebar that usually controls where the widgets will go. Most themes have a single sidebar. Depending upon your theme, you may find your side bar to the left or the right of the main content. However, some themes have additional columns. These themes…
Recently a story has been circulating of 14-year-old student Suvir Mirchandani, who claimed that if the US Government could save as much as $400 million by switching from Times New Roman to Garamond on printed documents. The basic reasoning behind this is that Garamond is approximately 25% lighter than Times New Roman. But is that…
Wells can be used within Bootstrap to create an inset look to a pseudo panel. They appear kind of like panels, but without the chance to color them. Instead, you have text that is inset from a box when you use the well class to a div. This can be used as a overly simple panel…
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…
