What Does the WordPress Community Think of the Gutenberg Editor? – A Review Roundup

July 2, 2018design tips
The Gutenberg editor is one of the biggest changes coming to WordPress. But how does the community feel about it? In this Gutenberg editor review roundup we will aim to find out. Since Matt Mullenweg revealed Gutenberg at WCEU 2017, a lot has been written about it. Here on Torque alone we have a number …
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Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution

July 2, 2018design tips

The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best development techniques happen right out in the open, on blogs and in forums, evolving as they’re passed around and improved. I thought it might be fun (and fascinating) to actually follow this creative exchange all the way through. To take a look at a popular CSS trick, the clearfix, and find out exactly how a web design technique comes to …

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15+ Google Slides Templates for Teachers

July 2, 2018design tips
In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best Google Slides templates for teachers and educators. You can use these templates to quickly create a great-looking educational presentation with Google Slides. Since Google Slides is a web-based app, slideshows are much easier to share with students. As a result, many teachers use the app to […]
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15 Best Moodle Themes of 2018

July 2, 2018design tips
Moodle is a powerful learning management system which is widely used by academics and students to build online course management and e-learning websites for universities and institutions around the world. Moodle templates and themes let you quickly establish a great looking platform, without too much development time and resource. These templates are easy to implement […]
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Could AWS Translate Open New Markets for Your Site?

July 1, 2018design tips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released their Amazon Polly plugin, a text to speech tool, back in February. In June, they announced a huge new update which provides real time translation functionality to the Polly plugin. We attended the AWS Translate launch event at the Amazon Loft in San Francisco and managed to learn more about …
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Writing Good Support Requests

July 1, 2018design tips

My take on trying to be helpful to a support staff.

One bit is just as relevant for learning development:

Writing out a ticket will help you figure out the problem.

Sometimes when you have to take a second to collect your thoughts and explain something, the problem will become clear and maybe even the solution. Oftentimes, a bug is a bug and just needs to be fixed — but sometimes your support ticket might actually be something you can …

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One-Offs

July 1, 2018design tips

There is this sentiment that you don’t design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it’s an anomaly. It’s unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site or help inform other pages.

You might call it a one-off.1

One-offs are OK! A world without one-offs is very boring. But a site chock-full of one-offs leads to familiar problems: inconsistency and non-reusable CSS that leads to …

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How to Install WordPress on a Subdomain

July 1, 2018design tips
The standard way of installing WordPress is to do so through your full domain – the regular address that leads to your home page. However, there are some situations where that isn’t the most optimal way of presenting your content or site. In those situations, you’ll want to turn to ‘subdomains’ instead. We’ll go into …
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