Bostonian Adam

Author: BostonianAdam

  • Standard responsive media query breakpoints

    Below are responsive media query breakpoints that are used most often on websites. Source: w3schools.com

  • Taking notes from John Morris podcast episode about object-oriented programming

    I recently found John Morris’s podcast show on YouTube and have enjoyed the few episodes that I listened to. This blog post though will be focused on notes I took from his episode named: JMS239: Object-Oriented Programming – Class, Object, Property, Method. Check out the full episode if you’re interested in learning about object-oriented programming.…

  • Sharing resources with you: Building emails, learn Javascript, HTTP vs HTTPS, and move WordPress to HTTPS

    Here’s another “Around the web” blog post where I share some resources I found online that I thought would be helpful to myself and others. TopoLio – Online email builder, they have a few free templates to use You Don’t Know JS (book series) by Kyle Simpson – Learn Javascript from one of the most…

  • Parallax scrolling effect, the new web thing to do on your site

    As the web changes, new designs and effects become popular and you see them across many sites. One new effect I’ve been seeing more and more is the “parallax scrolling effect” where you have backgrounds stay in place as the user scrolls down the page. If you somehow haven’t seen this cool effect yet, check…

  • WordPress plugins you should use for your WordPress site

    This blog post was going to be a post specifically for my wife with suggestions on what WordPress plugins to use for her sites, but the more I thought about it, these plugins should be used on most/if not all WordPress sites (or similar plugins that provide the same features). Below is a list of…

  • Sharing resources including social media tips, a HTML5 template and more

    Here’s a few articles/resources I found online recently that I wanted to share with others. How To Learn Social Media Marketing Like A Boss (blog.markgrowth.com) Google’s Building an Ad Blocker into Chrome – A Big Step Towards Regulating Online Ad Content (socialmediatoday.com) 15 Free Tools to Help Track and Improve SEO Performance [Infographic] (socialmediatoday.com) A…

  • Epics, stories and sprints in Agile

    I recently started working on an Agile team, using the Scrum framework, at my job and I have to say I am enjoying it, as it’s different from the traditional “waterfall” method. What I wanted to go over today in this blog post were a few agile terms: epics, stories and sprints. I will be…

  • Cool HTML5 tips for form inputs

    I wanted to share these cool quick tips that HTML5 provides to basic HTML web forms that will save you time and work in the end. Remember though, these tips only work in web browsers that support HTML5. Placeholder attributeYou can now easily have “placeholder” text display inside a text field, whereas before you had…

  • A cheat sheet for Google Analytics terms

    Ever get confused about the terminology Google Analytics uses? That’s a definite “yes” for me. Well Search Engine Watch put together a good blog post with terms that Google uses and they listed Google’s definition of those terms and also they put in plain English what the terms mean. Below are the terms that are…

  • No more CSS conditional comments for IE10+

    I was working on an older site this past week and an issue came up where the IE10 web browser was showing different spacing compared to the Google Chrome web browser. My initial thoughts were to use CSS conditional comments to make a specific class have different padding for IE web browsers. Well I didn’t…