Category: Tutorial

Photoshop Tools for an Efficient Workflow

The design process is changing, and with collaboration and iteration at an all-time high, it can be hard to keep it all straight when there are a variety of ways to achieve the same result. If you’re using a tool like Photoshop,...

How to Create Fantastic Content for Your Company Blog

Nowadays it’s considered fairly standard practice for every company to have a blog, but that doesn’t mean they’re always doing it well. We’ve all seen them–the company blogs that bore, that shove their product down your throat, that spread misinformation or otherwise...

Using Browserify with JavaScript (and Keeping Yourself Sane!)

Working with code in the browser is a challenge. Not only do you need to manage the disparate behaviors of a variety of browsers and navigate the sometimes treacherous waters of JavaScript’s functional programming logic, but managing a wide array of dependencies and...

Getting Started with SassDoc

SassDoc is to Sass what JSDoc is to JavaScript: a documentation system to build pretty and powerful docs in the blink of an eye. – SassDoc.com So your team is using Sass, and everybody is whipping out amazing @mixins, @extends, custom functions,...

The Basics of Developing Accessible Websites

Imagine not being allowed to buy a gallon of milk because you’re color blind. What a ridiculous scenario right!? But the reality is: Grocery stores don’t discriminate against those with disabilities…but your website (probably) does. The reality is that there are millions and millions of...

Using Vagrant and IIS for WordPress Development

…And lo! It came to pass that I needed to set up a local environment built on IIS. Many things (like communicating with a MS SQL server) can be emulated or replicated on a *nix environment, in which case the Vagrant workflow I’ve...

10 Things I Learned Migrating Websites to WordPress

Since joining WDS, I’ve had the awesome opportunity to be a part of our internal migrations team and create scripts to help migrate sites for Microsoft to WordPress. It’s an ongoing joke about my joy for migrations because in my initial interview I...

Using Git Flow and Forget to Branch? Stash it.

Here at WebDevStudios, we use a variation of the Git workflow known as Git Flow. One of the benefits of using Git is quick and easy branching and merging without conflicts. Git Flow makes extensive use of branches to ensure that work...

Handling AJAX in WordPress in Style

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) isn’t something that should be feared by anyone. It’s insanely powerful, versatile, and can provide your users cool experiences like processing forms without page redirection, dynamically loading posts while a user scrolls the page, and much more....