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Quick Button Event Handler

Imagine that in our header, we have a row of buttons in a DIV, and underneath that we have a NAV with three UL-based submenus, each with a class to identify them: To make a really quick script to hide or reveal a menu on its associated button click, make a new js file and […]

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WordPress

Large Sites Run on WordPress

Lists of major sites running WordPress, including Sony, Time, the White House, Justin Beiber, Walt Disney, the New Yorker, Vogue, Mercedes Benz, Katy Perry, and Wired Magazine: 130+ Big Brands 40+ Most Notable Big Name Brands… Creative Bloq: 23 Great WP Sites   The Ultimate List of WordPress Statistics  

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WordPress WordPress Templates

WordPress Theme Exercise Solution: Metonymic Front Page Sectioning

We ended the previous article having generated the main content for the home page of the site. However, if we inspect the code with browser developer tools, we’ll see that there’s just a ton of articles inside the .site-content MAIN element. Our next step, therefore, should be to introduce some sectioning HTML to our loop […]

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WordPress WordPress Templates

WordPress Theme Exercise Solution: Metonymic Content Generation

This page presents a solution for WordPress Theme Exercise: Metonymic. If you want to try building the site without following step-by-step directions, consult that document. If going through these instructions, please first review the original instructions at that link. Content Generation Let’s start with the biggest task: the generation of content for the front page. […]

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WordPress WordPress Templates

WordPress Theme Exercise: Metonymic

In this exercise, you will build two significant parts of a WordPress theme: the home page and the single post view. You may use your notes or the Internet. If this is a test, talking to anyone will result in a zero grade. Initial Setup First, please download the following: the duplicator package the screenshots […]

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WordPress Templates Exercise: I Heart Cities, Updated

Initial Setup Download Duplicator Site For this exercise, please download the starter files and the screenshots collection, if I don’t distribute them in class. These are big files, so the download might be a bit longer than that for most of the files on this site. Most, but not all, of the screenshots for the […]

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WordPress: Film Festival Site: JavaScript

Now let’s wire up some JavaScript to hide the registration form and allow it be shown with the click of a button. First, make a new file called registration.js inside the js folder in your theme. When I originally wrote up this exercise, I used jQuery. These days, I would probably just use straight JavaScript. […]

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Langara Outlines

LangaraPRM Teams 2018

WORDPRESS DESIGNER Pauline Josh Jed Tiffany WEB DESIGNER Sabrina Jeremy Karolina MEDIA Nicola Vitoria Samantha Bailey EDITORIAL & QA Alice Tanya PROMOTIONS Maddy Max  

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Langara Outlines

PUBL 1235 Outline (2020)

Course: Publ 1235 Title: Web Production 1 Credits: 6 Room: A247 (Mac Lab) Term: Summer 2020 Class Days/Times:June 18–Aug 15Tuesday 500–720Wednesday 130–520Thursday 200–520Office Hours: Monday 2-4 This Section B class is devoted to the production of the online Pacific Rim Magazine. Like anything in life, this outline is subject to occasional changes. Throughout the term, I will add links […]

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PUBL 1232 Outline (2020)

Course: Publ 1232 Title: Advanced Web Design Credits: 3 Room: Online Term: Summer 2020First class: June 18Last class: July 30Exam Period: Aug 04-15 Days/Times:Tuesday:  130-420Thursday: 1130-120 (Lab)Office Hours:Monday 2-4 This class builds on the prerequisite course Publishing 1220: Web Design Fundamentals. The class itself will largely focus on WordPress — how to use it, and how to build themes […]