I’ve had a time lately trying to get my background images to line up correctly on one of the sites I’ve been working on lately. The site I was working on had a header image and a footer image and a repeating background image. All three of these images need to line up correctly along […]
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Genesis had me spoiled. The Genesis themes that I’ve been using ARE child themes and therefore, only the Genesis theme itself has updates that I must install. When I started using Elegant Themes (which I love, by the way), I forgot that they might have updates. So, I forgot to make a child theme when
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This morning I stumbled upon this set of CSS-Only menus. Since I don’t claim to be a CSS guru, I like to find these kinds of sites. It helps me to learn good CSS coding. Firebug allows me to check out the CSS and change things to see what would happen. I like having CSS
One of the most basic HTML tags is the paragraph or <p> tag. It’s almost impossible to talk about HTML without talking about CSS anymore. Remember that HTML is for structuring your document, not styling your document, so the paragraph tag should only be used when you have legitimate paragraphs in your web page. This
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I’ve not always been a fan of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). When I first learned about their existence many years ago, browsers, computers and the internet were not quite ready to handle them, in my opinion. I guess that’s the way it is for many new technological breakthroughs. CSS seemed to make my pages slower
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I used to set my background images with HTML. I realize that this way is deprecated – meaning that it is no longer a part of the HTML standard. But, since you may still see it done this way in old web pages, I want to include it here: <body background=”photo.jpg”> This may still work
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The more I use jQuery, the more I like it! Today’s tip is how to use a jQuery plugin called Superfish to create a drop-down menu on your web page. You can download the plugin and find more documentation for it here. Once you’ve downloaded the plugin, you should move the css, images and js
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for the web. Most, if not all, browsers are written to comply with the standards created by the W3C. If you want to make sure that your web pages are going to work in most browsers, then you should validate your web pages to make sure that
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Sometimes for beginners, or even those of us that have been doing this for a while, it may be difficult to see how to use PHP and JavaScript together to make the page work correctly. I often have to stop and remind myself of the basics. HTML and JavaScript (which includes JavaScript libraries, such as
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