Over the years, I’ve built many websites. The most successful projects always started with a good plan. Who was the audience, is there special things that they will be looking for, what are they going to need to do. I’ve mentioned user personas as a great way to start to get a feel for what…
Over the years, I’ve built many websites. The most successful projects always started with a good plan. Who was the audience, is there special things that they will be looking for, what are they going to need to do. With one recent website I worked on a large number of their clients were older, wore…
Google has put together a “Basics of a mobile website for SMBs”. This is a four part series, listed below, for you to look at and see about creating mobile websites. Lesson 1 Learn the tools: PageSpeed Insights, Mobile-Friendly Test and Mobile-Usability Lesson 2 Bring it in: Viewports, zoom and plugins”>Bring it in: Viewports, zoom…
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…
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….
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….
Widgets are small sections of a website which allows you to add special content, or features, to different parts of your website. Traditionally, these were found in the website’s sidebar, however, you can place a widget anywhere you want. Usually Widgets are stand alone, meaning they don’t interact with one another, however, this is not…
What is a Theme A theme in WordPress helps us define how our website looks. It consists of a CSS style sheet named styles.css. (This file name must be used.) At the top of the stylesheet, there will be a CSS comment. WordPress looks at this comment to learn about the theme. It will look…
