I wrote an article on LESS and Sass for Coding on Smashing Magazine. Gives you a quick run-down of the functionality, similarities and differences in the two libraries. I think it’s a good read.
Read more…I wrote an article on LESS and Sass for Coding on Smashing Magazine. Gives you a quick run-down of the functionality, similarities and differences in the two libraries. I think it’s a good read.
Read more…When you’re creating a theme, for yourself or someone else, ease of use should be one of the foremost things in mind when it comes to the interaction between the back end and the front end. Any time you can take a convoluted process and simplify it into language that anyone can understand, without prior knowledge of the various languages we develop with, then that’s a step you should take. WordPress makes this easier with shortcodes.
Read more…The default style of TinyMCE included with WordPress is simple and effective. Often, though, it doesn’t give us an accurate representation of the layout and style we’re going to be seeing when the content is published. To remedy this we can add style to TinyMCE through our template’s functions.php file.
Designing and developing a marketing email or a newsletter is a challenge. A lot of designers don’t realize that email clients that run on your machine go beyond what you might call “unfriendly”. In fact, it’s safe to say that as far as HTML content is concerned, they are stuck in the 80′s. Webmail clients aren’t much better. AOL Webmail, GMail, Yahoo and all of their siblings have to safeguard the end-user’s security so they keep a tight grip on the content being displayed when the email is opened. Just keep a few basics in mind and you should be able to deliver some high-quality emails that will actually be seen and read by your subscribers.
Read more…So, this is something I wasn’t aware existed, and I can’t vouch for it’s cross-browser abilities or a lack thereof just yet, but it’s good to know.
Typically I look at adding an inline style as a very useful way to get around a stylesheet I can’t affect (in a CMS for example). There are times, however, that you need to override a style that has been placed into an element inline by PHP, Javascript or some other programming language that you also, might not, have access to. Well there’s a way to do that as well.
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