CSS User Interfaces Easily Find Font Information For Any Web Site Ever go to a site and really like the font but too lazy or not sure how to see what font they are using? April 16, 2018 1 Comment
CSS Hints HOWTOs Fix for Bold Fonts Looking Bolder in Chrome If you noticed your fonts in Chrome looking more bold in Chrome than Safari – there is an easy fix. Add this in to your stylesheet (body or specific CSS class/ID): Example: h1 {-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;} You can see the difference: Before: After: March 7, 2017 0 Comments
CSS HOWTOs Web Development Add Bootstrap Classes to the Next and Previous Image Buttons When viewing media (usually the image.php template) within WordPress – there are buttons to browse the next and previous buttons that you might want to customize if you are creating a Bootstrap WordPress them. If this is the case – styling the buttons with Bootstrap is easy. You can simply add the following to your […] August 26, 2016 0 Comments
CSS Hints HOWTOs WordPress Add Bootstrap Button Classes to the WordPress Comment Form Looking to stylize that WordPress comment button on the WordPress comment form? Adding the correct classes needed to the comment form button are as easy as finding where comment_form() is called in your theme. August 24, 2016 0 Comments
CSS Hints HOWTOs WordPress Add Bootstrap Classes to WordPress Widgets When creating your Bootstrap WordPress themes, you will notice the sidebar widgets (archives, categories, etc) which use dropdowns do not share the Bootstrap styling because there is no place easily accessible to add in the needed classes or CSS. August 22, 2016 0 Comments
CSS CSS Font Families Made Easy If you are looking for font family code – check out CSS Font Stack. You can chose your font, and with a click of your mouse – copy the entire family for your use. November 14, 2013 0 Comments
CSS HOWTOs Web Development HOWTO: Target Firefox for Specific CSS Generally – the best way to handle CSS is to keep it simple, clean, and without any hacks. From now and again there are some times when I need to write CSS specific to IE (using conditional comments). I recently came across a site where I needed to target Firefox because of a width issue. […] March 29, 2011 5 Comments
CSS Web Development WordPress WordPress Themes Over the Years…A Look Back and Then into the Future After working with WordPress for over five years now, I have seen a lot of changes both front-end and backend – both for developers and for users. I work for the most part on WordPress themes for a few hours a day and have been doing so for the last 3+ years full time. As […] September 23, 2010 0 Comments
CSS HOWTOs Web Development CSS Tuesday: Images as List Bullets There are plenty of ways to spruce up the boring bullets used in HTML lists. The best way and most browser compatible way I have found to do this is using the following code: You can see that here: Example of fancy bullet Another bullet point Vs. The plain list: Example of fancy bullet Another […] August 18, 2009 0 Comments
CSS Web Development CSS Tuesdays: Keeping it Simple I just released my fist two commercial WordPress themes: Lucidity and Lucidity Catalog with a focus on simplicity. After creating over one hundred custom WordPress themes – I decided to take my most requested features, coupled with a slick admin interface, and some really simple XHTML and CSS and put it together to create a […] July 7, 2009 0 Comments
CSS Hints Web Development CSS Tuesdays: Fun With User Agents If you are going to do any serious CSS development and/or troubleshooting – you need to be able to see the site on as many browsers as possible. Generally – we have several browsers on several operating systems going at once so we can make sure our bases are covered. Last week I built a […] June 9, 2009 0 Comments
CSS CSS Tuesdays: Cool Breadcrumbs There are plenty of times when you need to have a clear navigation path back to home or to a main section on a particular page, and most web developers use “breadcrumbs” to do this. Over the years, I have implemented breadcrumbs a number of ways, but I really like what I saw on Verlee’s […] May 26, 2009 0 Comments