Posts tagged “code”

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I support the separation of presentation from structure.

I think it’s admirable we’re moving towards code reuse and modularity.

I’m all for using HTML tables for data and not for page layouts.

This is the perfect world I strive for in building websites. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a messy world where clients want visible changes immediately and we’re working within parameters of time, money and energy that we have no control over.
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It took me a while to really grasp the power of WordPress’ Actions and Filters. Now I love using them and have recently discovered how they can be used to generate the correct Schema data depending on what the WordPress Loop is generating.

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Designmodo has a quick overview of what to expect in Bootstrap 4. My initial thoughts:

  • Moving from Less to Sass. Crap, now I gotta learn Sass and set up my development environment to support it.
  • Grid System based on ems instead of pixels. Nice.
  • Dropped support for IE8. OK, whatever…
  • Dropped Glyphicons. Uh… please announce a replacement.
  • Optional Flexbox. Yesssssss…
  • Cards as a new component. Nice.

My biggest gripe is easily having to switch to Sass. Ah well, I’ll live.

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Over the past few months I’ve been using a lot of what I call Page Builders, WordPress plugins that come with a set of modules which you drag-and-drop into a grid-based layout. I haven’t used, nor could I possibly use, all the available Page Builder plugins but here is what I have played around with:

Of course, there are a lot more Page Builders than these. You also have Visual Composer., Startup Framework, Qards… the list goes on.

I am not going to be reviewing the Page Builders I have used. Rather I want to share my thoughts on them after having gained some experience using them.

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