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...
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Accessibility in Chrome DevTools
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...
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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...
Continue Reading Level Up With jQuery DimensionsThe Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in Tasks
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...
Continue Reading The Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in TasksWinning With Code Reviews
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...
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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...
Continue Reading A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Bash & Shell ScriptsHelpful Books for Front-End Developers
“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...
Continue Reading Helpful Books for Front-End DevelopersUnit Testing Your Plugins with Dockunit
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...
Continue Reading Unit Testing Your Plugins with DockunitGetting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & Tricks
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...
Continue Reading Getting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & TricksThe PHPStorm Debugger is Pretty Awesome
In a previous post, I wrote about how awesome PHPStorm is in the context of being a front-end developer. In this post, we are going to look at getting the PHPStorm debugger setup to work with Xdebug and then test it to make sure it’s working! In my opinion, one...
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