In a previous article, I described how while redesigning my portfolio, I updated the code to use HTML5 rather than XHTML. In this follow-up, we will explore how to convert the previous desktop only design to a responsive design using CSS. We will focus only on laying out the main sections: header, sidebar (which also […]
Recently, I started the process of updating my portfolio site design and code. Since the overall site that houses the portfolio runs on PHP, my first step was to convert the underlying code to use PHP includes and whatnot. My next step was to convert the old code to newer up-to-date code—XHTML to HTML5. In […]
Recently, I was making some small changes to the look and feel of this website’s WordPress theme. But, even after exploring Gulp I was still using an older method for updating. Updating this website meant a tedious process.
Since I had a Zazzle acoount for a while and a new Pinterest account, I wanted to find out more about how to promote Zazzle products with Pinterest- mine and others. At first I used Zazzle’s Pinterest button under Share Link. But, for my own products it was not producing Rich Pins.
Recently I installed XFCE for a request to update one of my GTK themes. Anyway, another thing I needed was a way to start Apache and MySQL for my local WordPress install. I prefer to be able to start and stop these services rather than have them always on. So, I placed new items in […]
Introduction I was going to do a formal announcement that The M.X. was going to use Gulp to manage the theme, but I might as well mention it as part of this tutorial. So, while working on this update, I was trying to figure out how to concatenate conditionally loaded JavaScript files together– specifically scripts […]