Just over the course of last week, I did a minor re-design of this website. For better readability, I reversed the background between the header/sidebar area and the content area.
So now the content area has a white background for better text legibility. Before, the background directly behind the content text might have been distracting for readers.
In addition, I switched the link colors in the main content area to blue, while the sidebar has the copper color links.
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.
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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.
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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 a menu for this purpose.
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Right now Zazzle is having a sale of 15% off all of their products. Just recently, I opened JGD Home, a Zazzle store that is focused on home decor. Looking to spruce up your home with a new updated look? Here are collections of some of my throw pillow and tile coaster designs.
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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 that load as a result of turning “on” a feature in the Customizer. In this tutorial, I will describe how I did this task and why it may be useful if your theme design is set up a certain way.
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