Deadline to Enter Automattic Design Awards Ends Friday

November 12, 2018design tips
At WordCamp Europe this year, Automattician John Maeda, shared his idea for the Automattic Design Awards. The crowd cheered and thus the idea was born. Maeda teamed up with Simon Cooke from Pragmatic shortly to create a way to recognize amazing designs made with WordPress. Maeda and Cooke gathered a jury of digital agency and design …
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The “C” in CSS: The Cascade

November 12, 2018design tips

Following up from Geoff’s intro article on The Second “S” in CSS, let’s now move the spotlight to the “C” in CSS — what we call the Cascade. It’s where things start to get messy, and even confusing at times.

Have you ever written a CSS property and the value doesn’t seem to work? Maybe you had to turn to using !important to get it going. Or perhaps you resorted to writing the CSS inline on the element …

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20+ Best Cool PowerPoint Templates

November 12, 2018design tips
PowerPoint slideshows used to be the boring part of a meeting or presentation. But now, with the help of cool PowerPoint templates, everyone can make presentation slideshows look more interesting and attractive, even if you don’t have any experience in PowerPoint slideshow design. For this collection, we gathered some modern and stylish PowerPoint presentation templates […]
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30+ Best Subtle Black & White Background Textures

November 12, 2018design tips
Are you looking for a subtle black and white background texture to make your designs stand out from the crowd? In this collection, we’re featuring some of the most beautiful, simple, and modern black and white background textures you can use for your design projects. A black and white texture is the ideal choice for […]
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How to Care For Your Client After Delivering Their Project (In 3 Steps)

November 11, 2018design tips
It’s tempting to think that once a project has been delivered, the relationship with your client is over. However, nothing could be further from the truth. If you don’t incorporate a post-project ‘customer aftercare‘ phase, you could end up facing ongoing and constant support requests for the smallest of queries. Fortunately, creating a solid process …
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Using the Command Line for Automation – Part I Remote Control WordPress with WP-CLI Aliases

November 11, 2018design tips
WP-CLI is a tool that allows commands to be run in WordPress from the command line or terminal. One of the reasons why developers love WP-CLI is that it provides a way to automate WordPress and common operations that otherwise require navigating through the WordPress Dashboard in order to execute. There can be many clicks to …
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A Bunch of Options for Looping Over querySelectorAll NodeLists

November 11, 2018design tips

A common need when writing vanilla JavaScript is to find a selection of elements in the DOM and loop over them. For example, finding instances of a button and attaching a click handler to them.

const buttons = document.querySelectorAll(".js-do-thing");
// There could be any number of these!
// I need to loop over them and attach a click handler.

There are SO MANY ways to go about it. Let’s go through them.

forEach

forEach is normally for arrays, and interestingly, …

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