Doc Pop’s News Drop: Why is Marcel Bootsman going to Walk to WCEU?

November 4, 2018design tips
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we talk to Marcel Bootsman about his “Walk To WCEU” project, which will help raise money for DonateWC. Marcel will …
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Error Establishing a Database Connection: What It Is and How to Fix It

November 4, 2018design tips
As we’ve established before, WordPress is an inherently secure platform. However, that doesn’t make it free from problems. You may sometimes come across issues that can be frustrating to deal with, especially if they don’t give you a lot of information about their causes. The Error Establishing a Database Connection issue is a perfect example. …
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Rocking California’s “I Voted” Sticker in CSS for Election Day 2018

November 4, 2018design tips

Oh hey, so tomorrow (tomorrow!) is Election Day here in the United States. We’re not in the business of making political endorsements or anything like that at CSS-Tricks, though we do endorse that everyone exercise their right to vote.

I did exactly that two years ago and posted a CSS rendition of the “I Voted” sticker that came with my California mail-in ballot.

Fast forward to today, and I received a new sticker in the ballot sporting a fresh design.

I have a little time, so I’m going to try to re-create this sticker in CSS and walk through my thought process as I do it. Feel free to follow along if you’d like!

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8 Rules for Creating an Effective Responsive Website or App

November 4, 2018design tips
Users are spending a lot of time interacting with websites on mobile devices, rather than desktops. And that number seems to be growing daily. According to eMarketer, adults in the U.S. spend an average of 3 hours and 35 minutes on their phones, and the amount of time engaging on these devices is expected to […]
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Codester: Web Design at Your Fingertips

November 4, 2018design tips
A design marketplace can be a total lifesaver. From code snippets to graphic design elements, to themes and plugins, a good marketplace has all the little tools that you need in a pinch. Codester is a marketplace that’s packed with everything you need to keep design projects moving forward. You can buy premium PHP scripts, […]
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What’s New In CSS?

November 1, 2018design tips

Rachel hooks us up with what the CSS Working Group is talking about:

  • Styling scrollbars. This would come with properties like scrollbar-width and scrollbar-color. The best we have right now is proprietary WebKit stuff.
  • Aspect ratios. I imagine the CSS portion of this journey will be best handled if it plays nicely with the HTML intrinsicsize stuff.
  • Matching without specificity. :where() is :matches() with no specificity, and :matches() may become :is().
  • Logical Properties shorthand. The team is

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Why WordPress is the Most Adaptable and Inventive Platform Out There

November 1, 2018design tips
When it comes to Content Management Systems, nothing can be more versatile than WordPress. That is the reason why almost 30 percent of all the sites on the web are powered by WordPress. Ever since it began in 2003, WordPress has become the go-to platform for bloggers and businesses of every size. In this post, we are …
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Speed up Your Website Now

November 1, 2018design tips
Page speed is something that every website owner needs to be concerned with today. Google uses page speed as one of their signals when determining where to rank your website. If your website is quick to load, you will not only offer viewers an excellent user experience but you will also climb up the search …
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