Cloning a Wordpress Site
These are the basic steps for cloning a WordPress site. In this example, I assume your source web server is your live site on your web hosting and your target web server is your local development web server. Try to keep the same directory name and database name to keep things simple.
Backup all of the [...]
Pages not printing in Firefox
While redesigning this site, I incorporated a new print style sheet. During the process I discovered a feature in Firefox when printing a web site. Basically, if you have the overflow: hidden CSS attribute set, then it could prevent Firefox from printing all pages from the web site.
So, if you notice that you are only [...]
Equally aligning images in CSS
Equally aligning a row of images so they are equal distances apart with the first image being flush left and the last image being flush right, is actually a lot harder than you would think! Eventually, I turned to Google and came across the solution at CSS tricks.
I’d actually tried the first two approaches described [...]
What’s the go with the target attribute?
If you want to open a link in a new browser window/tab, the common approach is to use the target=”_blank” attribute in your anchor tag. However, the target attribute is deprecated by W3C standards and your HTML won’t validate if you use it.
The common alternative is to use JavaScript but I don’t really like that [...]
Web Mockups with Pencil
Discovered Pencil today, a nifty free/open source mockup tool. Initially I wasn’t going to try it because it is advertised as a Firefox extension, and I didn’t want yet another firefox extension installed. But then I found you could download a standalone version. So far, it works pretty good, my only complaint is that I [...]