Doc Pop’s News Drop: Plugin Madness 2018 Recap

April 15, 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. Congrats to Smush Image Compression for winning Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness competition! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted this year, it was a huge success. …
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Smush Image Compression Wins 2018 Plugin Madness

April 15, 2018design tips
For the second year in a row, WPMU Dev’s Smush Image Compression has won Plugin Madness! This year’s competition was fierce, but in the end, the image compression plugin came out on top. The plugin beat out Autoptimize, ShortPixel Image Optimizer, Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization, previous winner Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Sliders, and finally Restrict …
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3 Revenue Streams for First-Time Freelance Developers

April 15, 2018design tips
Beginning your journey as a freelance developer can feel like one small step for man, and one giant pain when trying to find work. You’ll want to find prosperous areas in which to apply your trade, but you’ll often encounter saturated markets that require hard work if you want to be successful. Finding a profitable …
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8 Typography Trends for 2018

April 15, 2018design tips
Bigger, bolder typography is the go-to type trend of 2018. Designers are opting for less elaborate typefaces and pairing them with bold color, cutouts, gradients, and even customizations to create lettering that stands out. Each of these trendy type styles is moving away from the flatter, more conservative options that have been popular for a […]
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1 HTML Element + 5 CSS Properties = Magic!

April 15, 2018design tips

Let’s say I told you we can get the results below with just one HTML element and five CSS properties for each. No SVG, no images (save for the background on the root that’s there just to make clear that our one HTML element has some transparent parts), no JavaScript. What would you think that involves?

The desired results.

Well, this article is going to explain just how to do this and then also show how to make things fun …

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Museum of Websites

April 15, 2018design tips

The team at Kapwing has collected a lot of images from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and presented a history of how the homepage of popular websites like Google and the New York Times have changed over time. It’s super interesting.

I particularly love how Amazon has evolved from a super high information dense webpage that sort of looks like a blog to basically a giant carousel that takes over the whole screen.

Direct Link to Article — Permalink…

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BigCommerce: eCommerce Your Way (and Design Awards!)

April 15, 2018design tips

Huge thanks to BigCommerce for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!

Here’s the basics: BigCommerce is a hosted eCommerce platform. In just a few minutes, anybody can build their own online store. From a personal perspective, I’d suggest to any of my friends and family to go this route. CMS-powered websites are complicated enough, let alone feature-packed eCommerce websites. Please go with a solution that does it all for you so your site will look and work great and you can focus …

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Some Recent Live Coding Favorites

April 13, 2018design tips

There is no shortage of videos out there where you can watch people code with an educational vibe. A golden age, one might say. Here are a few that I’ve watched and really enjoyed lately:

  • @keyframers – “An animated, collaborative coding live stream by @davidkpiano & @shshaw.” They’ve got 2 epsidoes out now, each of which they start with an animated interface GIF and then collaboratively re-build it.
  • The Coding Train – Daniel Shiffman’s show is a force of

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Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy

April 12, 2018design tips
While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance.  So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as …
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