A person will be bombarded with tens of thousands of adverts each day. Brand Identity is a powerful tool that helps clients and consumers make choices from this crowded marketplace. It helps people recognize one brand from another, reassures the customer they have made the right choice by communicating the intrinsic quality of the product […]
Permalink / Shortlink / or URL? I keep running into these choices for using these three different link types and not sure which to use. Here are examples of the same image in three different forms: url = http://www.rebeccahalldesign.com/slicks/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bw-bodyshop1.jpg shortlink = http://www.rebeccahalldesign.com/slicks/?p=82 permalink = http://www.rebeccahalldesign.com/slicks/?attachment_id=82 Here is a blog post I found by Gretchen Louise with some […]
I wanted to add a widget to a page without changing the custom page template file and without creating a new custom page template. I thought maybe I can just add a shortcode for the widget into the page through WordPress? Google is amazing because whatever question I am having during this learning process there’s always been […]
I included a gallery in my Slick’s website. I commonly jump-the-gun on adding plugins without using the default options from WordPress. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I wasn’t really understanding they were in place for me to use. As I keep saying, this course is a lot of learning through experience. I added […]
It’s taken some time to get to know the WordPress interface and what options I have for writing efficient code that makes sense for future expansion or editing. I’m just now getting my head round the CMS and how I can make it work for both me and a client. For example, I have a […]
The next engagement element I wanted that couldn’t actually show on my mockup was a fixed menu that follows the user as they scroll through the posts on the homepage. This was an important functionality that I almost had to give up because fixing an element plays all kinds of havoc with the skeleton framework. To troubleshoot this I hit […]
Because I don’t have vast experience using WordPress, I was bound to hit some obstacles when trying to match my mockup for this site. The hardest part was getting the menu right. I used a tutorial to make the interactive dropdown then tackled the responsiveness using a plugin. I needed to figure out how to create different types of […]
Aaaaand then the afterthought comes when fitting my navigation to match my mockup… how will this work when I view it on a mobile? I found this plugin and manually added it to make all of my menu collapse. http://responsive-nav.com I have been working with Bootstrap for a current project at work. I now can’t […]
I had to go googling again to find a way to match the navigation of this blog site to my my original site mockup. I found some tutorials online by AwfulMedia to help me build it using css and jQuery toggling. The first tutorial explains the dropdown and the second talks you through the toggle effect. You will see […]
Here’s a little gem from a fellow developer Lucy Beer. These are some tools she uses from what she calls the wordpress warchest for more serious WordPress endeavors. I mentioned in my last post that you can migrate a site. Maybe I’m not yet at this level, but I will definitely like to learn this as well […]
Although it may seem so, I haven’t been procrastinating my blog posts, I’ve been reading and collecting links as I work on graduate projects. I write them offline to later add on a rainy day. Ironic for me to think it saves time by writing then transferring online when I could just write online and […]
When we first began setting up this blog, our thumbnail size was set by keywords already decided by WordPress. These flowers were not fitting how I wanted them to fit on my homepage according to my wireframe and mockup. We went over changing that keyword for some different sizes, but what if I needed a […]
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Not all paper is white just like not all webpages are white. Another discovery I made during this blog project is how to change different pages different colours on my WordPress theme. It was very important for me to be able to pull this off, otherwise I would have a very terracotta site all throughout […]
Setting up my first blog WordPress Theme is proving a challenge. I figure I’ll be going through all the emotions during this course. We have our designed mockups to start this project off. You would think that would make building this site a breeze. In fact it is a breeze when you are coding a site outside of […]
Wallah! WordPress, in a subfolder, on my server. And for my first post… Inside Abbey Road presented by Google. I’ve never actually been inside Abbey Road Studios but now it’s possible from the comfort of my uncomfortable office chair. The entire site is interactive and engaging, the primary themes of our Summer course. I thought […]