Tag: development tips

The Importance of QA and UAT

Corey Collins on July 11, 2017July 10, 2017

We all have pride. Whether that pride comes from our career or what we create outside of work, we all have a sense of pride in something. In web development, it is critical to balance personal pride in your work with taking constructive criticism about your creations. After dedicating a great deal of time and energy into...

Accessibility of Semantics: How Writing Semantic HTML Can Help Accessibility

Jeffrey de Wit on May 23, 2017June 30, 2017

Writing HTML is about more than simply “having stuff appear on the page.” Each element you use has a meaning and conveys information to your visitors, especially to those that use assistive technologies to help interpret that meaning for them. A majority of a site’s visitors will be able to...

Accessibility in Chrome DevTools

Allison Tarr on March 6, 2017March 7, 2017

Oh, the internet is a wondrous place – full of avenues to connect people, regardless of geography, language, or hardware. Accessibility is so broad and the usership is so diverse. When building a WordPress theme, I encourage you to think about the benefits of removing any potential barriers from someone...

Level Up With jQuery Dimensions

Eric Fuller on September 28, 2016February 13, 2017

It’s hard to believe that I’m well into my second year of being a front-end dev here at WDS. It has been an awesome experience and I’m truly blessed to work with such a great group of people. Halfway through 2015, I officially caught the bug known as Javascript and I...

The Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in Tasks

Aubrey Portwood on September 1, 2016February 13, 2017

Everyday I spend time working on products for our great clients, I specifically spend a great deal of it writing code and building features. But I’m not just creating new features, I’m also creating new opportunities…opportunities to break that product. Here are the questions developers need to ask before turning in their tasks, and...

Winning With Code Reviews

Ben Lobaugh on August 25, 2016February 13, 2017

Here at WebDevStudios we put a lot of emphasis on code quality. After handing off a product to a client, we never know who may be looking at and/or maintaining our code. We want to be proud and confident that the next person will not have an OMGWTFBBQ-head-smashing-into-keyboard moment, but...

A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Bash & Shell Scripts

Brad Parbs on July 7, 2016February 13, 2017

Optimizing your development workflow is one of the most important things a developer can do. Being able to leverage your tools quickly and efficiently lets you spend your time working on actual development–instead of fighting your tools or doing boring, repetitive things. A few months ago, I wrote a blog...

Helpful Books for Front-End Developers

Allison Tarr on July 5, 2016February 15, 2017

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.” –Patti Smith There are many great pathways to glean new information out there, whether it be on the web or in a class. Your mileage may...

Unit Testing Your Plugins with Dockunit

Camden Segal on June 30, 2016February 13, 2017

I think we can all agree that unit testing is pretty neat. An automated system for checking if your code changes break any functionality is almost magic, and if you aren’t sure where to get started with it, you should read my previous post Unit Testing Your Plugins. If you’ve spent...

Getting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & Tricks

Will Schmierer on June 28, 2016February 13, 2017

Recently, here at WDS, we started incorporating Flexbox into our projects. I wanted to share some great resources I’ve come across to get going with Flexbox and highlight some of the early first impressions and some of the struggles you might encounter along the way. And, if you want to...