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WordPress: How to Add Menus to a Theme That Doesn’t Support Them

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 […]

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ECUAD Outlines

Advanced Web Design

  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 […]

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Langara Outlines

PRM Jobs

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. […]

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ECUAD Outlines

Intro to Web Design

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 […]

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ECUAD Outlines WordPress

Intro to WordPress

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 […]

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CSS

List Based Menus

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 […]

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Tutorials

WordPress Features « WordPress Codex

Why WordPress?WordPress Features « WordPress Codex.

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HTML

DocTypes & Code Validation

How to Validate Your Code To check the validity of your code, you can submit it to https://validator.w3.org/, either by typing in a URL, uploading the file, or even cutting & pasting your document into a form field. However, before you do that you must first add a Document Type Definition, so the software knows […]

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HTML

Understanding File Paths

HTML is nothing more than a set of instructions on how to display a page of information. For example, if the browser sees <h1>Celine Dion Appreciation Society</h1>  in a bit of HTML code, it knows that it should display the phrase Celine Dion Appreciation Society styled as a header (typically, bigger & border, unless this default […]

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HTML

HTML Naming Conventions

When the Macintosh came out in 1984, one of its breaks from computing tradition was in its liberal file-naming conventions. While DOS and Windows 3.x files had to follow the so-called eight-dot-three convention (ie myessay.doc), Mac files could have spaces, could include up to 31 characters, and could even neglect to have a file extension. As […]