Sometimes, you will inject Font Awesome icons into a document using pseudo elements rather than the empty <i> tags that are commonly used. Here’s example code using Facebook and Twitter. Note the font family: Font Awesome 5 Brands For the content value, put a backslash followed by the unicode value. You can find the unicode […]
If some of your WordPress posts or pages have the following error messsage output to the screen ob_end_flush: failed to send buffer of zlib, etc, the following steps should fix it.
Please download the starter files from here. A useful but occasionally confusing css property is object-fit (and its related property object-position. It allows to “crop” images with CSS, which can be very useful in responsive design. I have created a series of Loom videos to explain how to use it. As always, please watch them […]
A WordPress starter theme is a great way to build your own themes. Starter themes are, as the name implies, meant to serve as the code foundation upon which you build your theme. With a good starter theme, you have a 1000-hour headstart. This is because on its own the starter theme will typically deliver […]
First, please download the starter files. Use the latest version. Make a new database and install the duplicatored site into it. As part of that duplicator process, make a new Admin Account, using your first and last name as both the user name and password. For the nickname, use your initials. Make sure that you […]
Depending on what development environment you are using, you might encounter errors when cropping images in WordPress. Here is one possible fix for that. In the front panel of MAMP, check which version of PHP you are running. If you do not see the PHP version in the front panel, go to the MAMP Preferences […]
For each of the following conditions, make an emmet equation to produce the described markup. (If you haven’t done tables yet in class, here’s the basics.) 5. Make a list menu with with 12 links of single-word lorem ipsum, but “prewired” with spans and classes for Font Awesome and with the visually-hidden class. 6. Using instructions […]
I have created a Loom video series about web graphics. To go through the videos and practice the techniques shown in them, please download the starter files. Topics covered include: jpeg file size reducing jpeg file size via dimension & quality batch processing in photoshop, bridge, and xnconvert svg: the web’s vector file format png8, […]
In this exercise, you will learn how to create a sliding-down menu for small screens. In it, you will learn about: First, please download the starter files. Set them up as a new project in your editor (likely Visual Studio Code). Now, please watch this Loom video series. Please start with the video that has […]
Increasing Specificity If… Avoiding Monotonous Work Imagine you have a website with 100 pages, and you want to style the last LI in the main menu. Imagine visiting each page and adding a class to the last LI. Yuck. Modifying The Work of Others Imagine that you have a content managed site running WordPress or […]