When Technologies Collide, part 2
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc Are Not Equal Even within a specific category, such as a shopping cart, there are things a particular web technology does, and there are things it doesn’t do. Another way to say it would be that there is the way that particular technology does things, …
Google AMP: Another Technology to Take Over the World?
Here we go again, another technology that will cure cancer and guarantee world peace. The truth is, each of these latest, greatest technologies 1) serves a specific purpose, 2) is just a new twist on previous technology, 3) comes with a bucket load of marketing gobble-dee-gook
What is a Modern, Reactive Framework?
WHAT IS A MODERN, REACTIVE FRAMEWORK? Udacity has a free course called Build Native Mobile Apps with Flutter. It’s a fairly comprehensive course, but it starts out with the assumption that the viewer is already steeped in the development world. Within the first 20 seconds, you will hear the words, …
What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?
Google will give me credit for changing the content on my slider. But the words are not easy for a human to notice or read.
Web Development Tools: Taking a Database Dump with PHPMyAdmin
WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: TAKING A DATABASE DUMP WITH PHPMYADMIN I have been adding quite a few posts and images to my new website. If I don’t have a backup plan, I could lose it all. If my site is hacked, I could lose it all. 4 options I have …
Web Development Tools: Firefox Inspector
Web Development Tools: Firefox Inspector Back in the old days of static websites, it was pretty easy to see which elements were inside which layers. But, with Content Management Systems (CMS), there are layers created on the fly by the CMS, as well as, layers a developer creates in the …
When Technologies Collide, part 1
On my first WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, I created a child theme and added a MetaSlider to the home page banner in the child theme code. I didn’t even bother with the Customizer tools because they are not intuitive On my second WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, …