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Join My Email Newsletter5 Things Businesses Should Consider Before a Website Redesign
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Think about all of the things you look at every day: websites, movies, billboards, menus, youtube videos… Your eyes and brain are constantly absorbing information. All of this visual content is influencing your frame of reference. Some streams of images are more powerful and persistent than others. Take for example your computer, you could easily […]
Style Guides are Important but Often Ignored
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“We began to refer to this living document as “a toolkit built in style guide form.” This achieved our goal to communicate our work…” – Mark Otto, creator of Bootstrap Framework Style Guides are Important but Often Ignored Recently at work, one of our websites was redesigned to be mobile responsive. It was developed by […]
Code Comments Hierarchy
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/* #################################################### L E V E L – O N E #################################################### */ /* :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Level – Two */ /* Level three */ <!– #################################################### L E V E L – O N E #################################################### –> <!– :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Level – Two –> <!– Level three –> /* #################################################### L E V E L – O […]
Get URL parameter string – jQuery
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var getUrlParameter = function getUrlParameter(sParam) { var sPageURL = decodeURIComponent(window.location.search.substring(1)), sURLVariables = sPageURL.split(‘&’), sParameterName, i; for (i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) { sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split(‘=’); if (sParameterName[0] === sParam) { return sParameterName[1] === undefined ? true : sParameterName[1]; } } }; And this is how you can use this function assuming the URL […]
Add class to body based on the URL – jQuery
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// find the pathname var urlPath = window.location.pathname; //convert to lowercase urlPath.match(/\/(.*?)(\+|$)/)[1].toLowerCase(); // remove the first character urlPath = urlPath.replace(/\//g, ‘-‘).slice(1); //remove file extension urlPath = urlPath.replace(/\.[^/.]+$/, “”); // add class to body $(document.body).addClass(urlPath); // If body has no class its propably the homepage $(‘body:not([class])’).addClass(‘home’);
What are the Most Common Problems in Website Design & Development?
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When I began learning web design, I built websites using Adobe Dreamweaver because I could see a visual output of what I was building. This was familiar to me because I was used to designing in Illustrator and Photoshop. However, when the site wasn’t working I had no choice but to use the source code tab and […]
7 Steps to Build a Website for Your Business
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1. Dream This is the most challenging and the most fun step in the process. Here you can picture what your website looks like, how it works, what pages will be included, etc. Visit multiple websites and look at their navigation, pictures, colors, and overall presentation. What things did you like and dislike? 2. Plan […]