Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 2
Last week we started work on my new design and finished up the header. This week we’ll focus on the homepage. Other Posts In This Series Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 The Crazy Slider Background While I originally thought about coding this completely in CSS3 so it can resize with our browser,...
Read more…Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 1
I’ve been dying to try out a real responsive design for awhile now on my site, but didn’t feel like recoding the whole thing. Thankfully, I was able to beg bribe get the fantastic Paul Maloney to redesign my site for me, which gives me the perfect excuse to try out all the new bells and...
Read more…Super Hijinksified – A Developer’s WP Theme
A combination of my Hijinks and HTML5 Boilerplate, all the goodness of a blank WordPress theme with the helpings of HTML5 Boilerplate. Basic Hijinks explained: A lot of people have been asking if I use a framework for WordPress. I use my own custom blankish framework that allows me to quickly get started on projects....
Read more…Best Practices For Coding WordPress Themes
Open up fifty different WordPress themes and you’ll see fifty different ways to code a WordPress theme. While there’s no specific right or wrong way to code and structure your theme, there are several best practices I’d like to point out. Following these can decrease load time, allow you to code faster and allow the...
Read more…Update 2011 Conference Recap
I spent last week in beautiful England attending the Update 2011 Conference, thanks to all of your awesome donations last month. I wanted to make sure that I jotted as many notes and photos as possible for those of you who were unable to make the conference. The conference, put on by Aral Balkan, was...
Read more…The Logo: To H1 Or Not To H1?
Even though I’ve been working in HTML for over 12 years now, I still have a few philosophical conflicts about certain practice. I call them philosophical, because in the end, it really doesn’t “matter” which way I choose, but because I’m a big proponent of web standards and semantics, it makes a big difference to me. Using...
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