This article was created in partnership with Alibaba Cloud. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. As you may have seen, we’ve recently partnered with Alibaba Cloud to find the best tips and tutorials for making the most out of Alibaba Cloud Services, to celebrate the launch …
Even in a standard install, WordPress is a highly-visual platform. That not only makes for easy content creation, but site maintenance as well. Within a few clicks, you can install a plugin, run software updates and tweak any number of settings. However, there are situations where that visual interface can …
The ability to influence the web design community generally comes via two very different paths. One is to create compelling content that helps others level up their skills by introducing and reinforcing concepts. The other is through creating tools that allow people to utilize and further hone those skills. Chris …
Share Your Story with These Terrific Timelines By Eric Karkovack on June 19th, 2019CSS, JavaScript When trying to get your point across to users, serving them up mountains of text just isn’t effective. People are looking for instant gratification and most won’t stick around to read long passages. We can better spark their interest …
You’re going to be asked to do it. At some point, if it hasn’t happened already, your coworkers or your boss will ask you to do something foolish. Something you know will make things worse for you, your coworkers, maybe even the business itself. If you’re like most developers, you …
The use of mobile devices has increased considerably in the past decade. It has been over two years since mobile browsing took over desktop. The usability of mobile devices has exploded, too. Mobile devices now come with huge processing power. We often dismiss mobile platforms as serious workhorses for developers, …
Last year, the web development community was obsessed with vertical lines and vertical rhythm. This year, we see some interesting solutions that have originated from that tendency. The use of ultra-thin lines throughout the interface is one of them. This is an incredibly small and elegant trend. Sometimes it can …
As I write this, the lives of potentially billions of people have been altered in one way or another. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an untold amount of changes – both big and small – not to mention tragic. To be sure, this is a crisis on a global …
In this article, I’ll focus on a list of must-have VS Code extensions for JavaScript developers. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is undoubtedly the most popular, lightweight code editor today. It does borrow heavily from other popular code editors, mostly Sublime Text and Atom. However, its success mainly comes from …
This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The start of a new year is always an exciting time. Everyone makes pledges to be better, to feel better, to do better. But like many New Years’ resolutions …
As the web has evolved over time, website complexity has trended upward. Why? Technology has allowed us to do more than ever. Between content management systems (CMS), code frameworks and other technological advancements, high-end functionality is at our fingertips. This has raised the bar in not only what we can …
The difference between a good and a bad commit can be huge. It’s no fun having to ask your colleague — or your past self — what a particular change was about, or what the current state of things is. This article aims to provide a thorough guide to the …
CSS Grid has turned out to be the most exciting evolution of CSS for quite a while. It’s a specific CSS tool for building any web layout you can think of, from the simplest to the most complex. Today, CSS Grid is widely supported by all major browsers — it’s …
When building a website with a CMS, flexibility is always welcome. Thankfully, WordPress has more than its share, with themes and plugins that allow us to create a highly-custom experience. But its flexibility goes beyond just those extra things we can install. It’s actually baked right into the core of …
In this article, you will learn how you can quickly build an attractive and interactive frontend very quickly using Vuetify. Building a friendly application interface with a great user experience is a skill that requires practice and knowledge. While Vuetify won’t make you a skilled UX practitioner over night, it …
The Django administration site is great — fully-featured, easy to use, secure by design, rock solid … and somewhat ugly, which can be something of a downside when you want to integrate it with the look and feel of the rest of your website. Let’s sort that out. If It …
Since 2017, I have launched several projects including Spider, Pretzel, Stitches and Dribbble color palette. At first, it wasn’t clear which steps of the launch process were more important than others. But after my third launch, I had hatched a plan and started tweaking it. In this article, I will …
Have you been using Git for some time but never in a team environment? Are you familiar with the basics of Git but unsure how large teams use Git at work? In this post, I’ll talk about the basic Git techniques that you must be familiar with before you join …
100 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools – Our favorite CSS libraries, frameworks, resources and tools that have all been released this year (2018). No doubt, you’ll find something interesting! The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019 – The Grumpy Designers shares his thoughts on what we can expect this …
WordPress themes give WordPress users the ability to completely change the look of a WP website, as well as add functionality to it. In this three-part series, we’ll introduce WordPress themes, showing how they work, how they’re structured, the PHP architecture behind them, and other relevant information. We’ll then embark …
