I love CSS, as you can tell from my blog posts on it such as font sizes in CSS and CSS box models. As a web developer focusing on front-end development at Blueprint, CSS, along with making custom WordPress themes, is my favorite part of development. Some CSS properties are used more often than others. Today, I will be writing...
Languages can be spoken. Languages can be signed. Languages can be written. There are romance languages, and there are Germanic languages. We use language to compose stories and shape fantastical worlds that never existed. We use other sorts of languages to create video games and build virtual worlds. You might stumble upon these virtual worlds each time you use a...
These days I think its pretty well undeniable that an online presence is becoming a key growth factor for many businesses, whether big or small, old or new. The question is, once you have a website, how do you get noticed amidst the ocean of other sites strewn across the web? There are many things that go into marketing a website,...
The Font Debate As the age old font debate- Serif vs. Sans Serif- rages on, new factions begin to grow from within each camp. On the Serif side the debate has become Times New Roman vs. Georgia. On the Sans Serif side designers argue over Arial and Helvetica. With so many differing opinions out there, how do I know who...
Social media is everywhere and always changing. It is important to utilize social media in every way you can. One way is to boost your branding by having branded social media pages. Another is to use social sharing buttons. Recently, I worked on adding social sharing buttons on the Blueprint blog as a part of my front end development tasks....
I work on a lot of front end development projects here at Blueprint. Usually when I am working on a project I need to create pages, but I don’t want to create blank pages with no content. The solution is to use lorem ipsum. What is lorem ipsum? Lorem ipsum is a placeholder text. It is also called filler text...
Due to an intense January snow storm, Blueprint will be closed until 9am on Friday January 18th. Meteorologist, Josiah T declares “it’s snowing” while rockin’ his awesome snow boots. His excitement could hardly be contained. Chief meteorologist – AKA “Daddy” – responded, It looks like clean up will take a bit longer than originally anticipated.
I work on a lot of front-end development projects at Blueprint. They range from making WordPress themes to converting a website to WordPress to writing code for mobile design. When working on some of these projects, I find myself needing placeholder images. For example, I could be working on a jQuery slideshow, and I would need temporary placeholder images until...
A WordPress plugin is a program or set of functions, written in PHP, that adds specific features or services to a WordPress website, which can be integrated into the site with methods provided by the WordPress API. A plugin can add additional functionality, or modify existing WordPress features. Setting Up A WordPress Plugin The first step in creating a plugin...
As a front-end developer, I personally love working with CSS. I have been working a lot with responsive design lately, and as I pointed out in an earlier post on designing for mobile devices, one of the things to keep in mind was phone number formats. Another thing to keep in mind when developing for mobile devices is the CSS...
