Doc Pop’s News Drop: Flipping the Script on Hackers with the Coin Auth Plugin

April 9, 2018design tips
Doc’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. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to flip the script on hackers and run cryptomining software on their computers? In this week’s video we talk …
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What is the Optimal Content Length? – Here’s What the Science Says

April 9, 2018design tips
What is the optimal content length? How long should your blog posts be? What is the ideal word count for SEO? These are questions many would-be bloggers and marketers ask themselves. Obviously many things go into successful content marketing. From choosing the right keywords, to learning to write well, to image optimization. All these are …
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20+ Best Responsive Website & App Mockup Templates

April 9, 2018design tips
Are you looking for the perfect mockup template to showcase your website or app in a professional way? Well, look no further. In this post, we’re bringing you a collection of responsive mockup templates that can beautifully showcase your website design. Whether you’re building a portfolio, promoting a mobile app, a SaaS business, an online […]
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Displaying the Weather With Serverless and Colors

April 9, 2018design tips

I like to jog. Sometimes it’s cold out. Sometimes it’s cold out, but it looks like it isn’t. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping. Then you step outside in shorts and a t-shirt and realize you have roughly 2 minutes before exposure sets in.

I decided to solve this first world problem using a lightbulb to display a certain color based on what the temperature outside is. It works better than I expected, and that’s saying something because …

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Back to Basics: A New Developer’s Guide to Creating WordPress Products

April 8, 2018design tips
Your New Year’s resolution might have been to start developing for WordPress. However, despite the platform’s ease of use, there’s still a learning curve to master. You’ll find there are plenty of resources available to help you begin, but understanding everything involved could prove challenging. Fortunately, the basics of developing for WordPress are easy to …
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7 Tips for Using Background Textures in Web Design

April 8, 2018design tips
This is not your typical roundup of textures to use for website backgrounds. If you are looking for a specific texture, we have those here. But what if you want to create your own? Or find a way to customize a texture to fit your project? That’s what we’ll focus on today. While there are […]
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Simple Swipe With Vanilla JavaScript

April 8, 2018design tips

I used to think implementing swipe gestures had to be very difficult, but I have recently found myself in a situation where I had to do it and discovered the reality is nowhere near as gloomy as I had imagined.

This article is going to take you, step by step, through the implementation with the least amount of code I could come up with. So, let’s jump right into it!

The HTML Structure

We start off with a .container that …

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`:focus-visible` and backwards compatibility

April 7, 2018design tips

Patrick H. Lauke covers the future CSS pseudo class :focus-visible. We’re in the early days of browser support, but it aims to solve an awkward situation:

… focus styles can often be undesirable when they are applied as a result of a mouse/pointer interaction. A classic example of this are buttons which trigger a particular action on a page, such as advancing a carousel. While it is important that a keyboard user is able to see when their focus …

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Keep Pixelated Images Pixelated as They Scale

April 6, 2018design tips

This is a little reminder that there is a CSS property for helping control what happens to images as they scale up: image-rendering.

We’re quite used to the idea that scaling an image larger than its natural size (upscaling) causes it to be blurry. As awful as that is, it’s the browser doing the best it can to algorithmically smooth out an image over more pixels than it has data. But let’s say you’d really rather not it do …

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