This will be a quick/short blog post with a few links to an article and helpful resources for developers.
Here are some resources from around the web I thought would be helpful for everyone.
I have used GitHub for my job but I never used Git before, so I found the below YouTube video to be helpful to get a sense of it.
It’s been awhile since I’ve shared resources from around the web, so here we go:
I wanted to write a quick blog post explaining in plain English what max-width and min-width mean when setting up media queries in your CSS, so here we go first with an example of media query code in your CSS.
<style>
@media (min-width: 480px) { /*add your css in here*/ }
@media (max-width: 1280px) { /*add your css in here*/ }
</style>Using the code example above, “min-width: 480px”, means that when your web browser’s viewport width is equal to or more than 480px, then the web browser will apply the CSS in the brackets that follow.
Again, using the code example above, “max-width: 1280px”, means that when your web browser’s viewport width is equal to or lesser than 1280px, then the web browser will apply the CSS in the brackets that follow.
Below are responsive media query breakpoints that are used most often on websites.
Source: w3schools.com
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.
Notes
First, object-oriented programming is a mindset. Let’s take an example, such as a CMS (content management system).
You can create relationships between two objects.
The post’s author would be its own object, you can then create a relationship between the post and the author.
An application:
The post is the object, the data about it is the properties, and the actions that can be done by it or to it are the methods.
A class is a blueprint for an object. An example is a house. Blueprints tell you how to build the house but it won’t give you all the specifics, such as wall color, fridge type, etc. You can create five different houses from the same blueprint (class), but all have differences, such as different flooring, colors, etc. The data that goes into the blueprint is what makes them different.
Back to the CMS example, with individual posts, each post is an instance of that object.
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.
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 out the w3schools.com links below to see the effect and also the code to do this yourself.
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 suggested WordPress plugins that you should use for your web site (for a small-to-medium sized standard WordPress blog, not including a forum or store). Reminder that this is just my opinion and if you prefer different plugins feel free to leave a comment telling us which ones and why.
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