How to Use Web Fonts with WordPress
There are a ton of choices if you want to use web fonts on your website. With those choices come different methods of incorporating them with WordPress. Let's do it right, and avoid problems later.
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There are a ton of choices if you want to use web fonts on your website. With those choices come different methods of incorporating them with WordPress. Let's do it right, and avoid problems later.
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You don't have to build websites to know what a dropdown menu is, and how common they are. Almost every website in the last decade with complicated taxonomy has a dropdown, and clients expect them.
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If you're going to use CSS3 properties in your designs, it's a good idea to make sure you aren't trying to apply them where they aren't supported. Old browsers have a hard enough time trying to grok your newfangled HTML(5). Don't confuse them with transforms and text shadow.
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I always thought of my next door neighbor Ray as my grandfather. Ray was an old WWI vet, retired trucker, and junior golf instructor who had a stack of hardbound journals he had written in for decades. I remember one of the things he shared about his Parkinson's, was the difficulty writing in his journal. It had become a very important part of his life. I wish I had started one then, when I was a kid. Ray told me as much.
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So there you are, working away on your web server making something magical through ssh. You get a phone call, or check Twitter, read an article or something. It was only a few minutes!
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If you are using Compass, you are probably also at least playing with media queries and Responsive web design.
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WordPress has a few default classes used for things like image alignment, galleries and other html output by core features. This is a combination of the styles found in the default WordPress TwentyEleven theme, and some modifications of my own. Include this snippet with your css to save a bunch of time building your responsive WordPress theme.
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I've bulldozed the digital hoarder's house that was my filesystem, and sworn to clean up my act. Well on my way to a perfect workflow and code management system, I'd like to share what I'm doing with a series of posts. This first post will outline how I built the development cloud that is now making my life much easier.
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I love a good framework. Just exploring different frameworks and trying them out for various purposes can teach you a lot. One of my side projects lately has been building my own WordPress theme framework, which uses Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate. Still, most of my projects and clients are using Thesis, which is a WordPress theme framework that does much of the heavy lifting in building custom sites. I'm on a mission to marry the two.
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I've been meaning to begin using John Gruber's Markdown to write my posts, I just never really took the time to find a plugin that is suitable until now.
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