Using Floats For Two-Column Layouts This exercise will help you understand how to make a two-column website layout using the CSS float property. If you need a quick refresher on the float property, read this. This exercise will hopefully also reinforce your understanding of HTML paths and the CSS Box Model. First of all, please download […]
In your theme’s functions.php file, add the following add_filter(‘login_errors’,create_function(‘$a’, “return null;”)); This will stop the WordPress login screen from announcing that your username is correct but the password is not.
Max Magazine (slider, carousel, extra widgets. Lots of configuration options) Hatch (great portfolio theme) Colorway Custom Community (lots of configuration options) Sight (from ThemeShower, for Smashing Magazine) Eleanor Additional Recommendations: Yoko Lazy Sunday Gridly NEW ONES Suburbia (Magazine Theme) F8 Lite : a good photographer’s theme. You have to set the thumbnail sizes […]
Without a doubt, the fundamental part of the WordPress system is the loop. The loop is the code that pulls information from your site’s database. In a default WordPress installation, for example, when your front page loads, the loop asks the database the following questions: Do you have any posts to display? If so, can you […]
Many starter themes, or older themes, do not natively support custom menus. In the Appearance > Menus, the top right pane is called Theme Locations. you will be informed there if the theme doesn’t support menus. To add menu support to a theme is a three-step process: Add the menu capability to functions.php Add the […]
CEDA 332 F001 Oct 24 – Dec 12 ( Saturdays ) 930-1230 Room 121 COURSE DESCRIPTION Following on from Introduction to Web Design, this course delves deeply into the skills needed by the modern web designer. Topics include Responsive Web Design, Advanced CSS Selectors, JavaScript libraries, CSS preprocessors, prototyping frameworks, strategies for high-resolution (aka […]
On Monday July 09, we will vote for the 2012 PRM layout mockup that we want to have on this year’s site. The Art Department The winning team will become the Art Department. The Art Department will produce the following by Monday July 16th: Story, Index, and “Category Listing” HTML files. Fully commented. Code organized. […]
Introduction to Web Design Course Number: CEDA 232 S001 Instructor: Kevin McMillan Number of Sessions 8 Day and Time Thursdays 6-9 Start Day October 12 Room B1122 COURSE DESCRIPTION This course explores the many facets of website design and development, as well as some of the ways that the Internet is being used by artists […]
Introduction to WordPress Course Number: CEDA 150 Instructor: Kevin McMillan Number of Sessions 4 Day and Time Sunday / 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Start Date February 29, 2016 Room 121 Course Description An introduction to web design using the WordPress platform, this four-day course offers an in-depth look at the technology and skills needed to […]
One Way to Make a List-Based Horizontal Menu Make an unordered list with links in each list item. Give the UL (contextually) a list-style-type of none Zero the UL’s margin-left and padding-left Give the LIs a width (typically in percentage) Float the LIs Possible Options Set the line-height of the A tag to control the height […]