Articles by Alex Ball

Alex has been working in web design and development for over five years, and loves learning and expanding his skill set. A fan of CSS3 and HTML5, he also enjoys going old school with HTML (table) Emails.
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Learning LESS: Mixins

We continue on our journey of Learning LESS today as we dig into an extremely powerful component of LESS: Mixins. If you haven't read our first two posts on the topic, check out Learning LESS: An Introduction and Learning LESS: Variables. Blog Series Roadmap ... An Introduction Using Variables Using Mixins Using Nested Rules Using Functions Divide and Conquer Put It Into Action So let's introduce LESS Mixins, and showcase some of what you can do with them. What is a Mixin? ... A Mixin in LESS is basically...
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Learning LESS: Variables

We continue on our journey of Learning LESS today as we dive in to the wonderful world of Variables. If you haven't read Learning LESS: An Introduction, be sure to read that first to cover some intro to this topic. Blog Series Roadmap ... An Introduction Using Variables Using Mixins Using Nested Rules Using Functions Divide and Conquer Put It Into Action So let's dive in to LESS Variables, and showcase some of what you can do with them. The Syntax ... The syntax for LESS is almost identical to CSS. And the...
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Creating Bulletproof Email Buttons

Regardless of the social media networks that are popular at the time, email marketing will always be the number one way for a company or organization to connect with customers or clients. But, the average internet user has 2.3 email addresses and sends and receives an average of 112 emails a day. So what does that mean? That means your emails need to be clean, lean and quick to digest. With that in mind, I'm going to show you a great button replacement technique that will limit the number of images your email...
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Learning LESS: An Introduction

Today, I'm proud to start a series of posts that will focus on LESS, the dynamic language that takes your CSS and puts it on steroids. LESS let's you use variables, mixins, nested rules, and even functions within your CSS. It's extremely powerful and can dramatically speed up your development. There is a little bit of a learning curve to it, but once you wrap your head around it, you won't type CSS again without using LESS. Blog Series Roadmap ... An Introduction Using Variables Using Mixins Using Nested...

Up and Running With Custom Post Types

If you're reading this post, chances are you're familiar with WordPress and its role in the web world as a blogging platform, content management system, multisite administrator, and much more. While WordPress can be a viable solution for any small business website or blog right out of the box from a fresh install, you can harness the true value of WP by diving into the code and creating Custom Post Types. What Is A Custom Post Type? ... WordPress ships with two default post types, Posts and Pages. By default,...
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Develop, Deploy and Maintain in Coda

Coda by Panic bills itself to be "one-window web development." I have been a web developer (or at least playing with code) for the past six or seven years, and purchased Coda about a year ago. It took me almost this long to realize the beauty that lies within the code editor when you truly use it as a one-window web development system. Today, I'm going to walk you through setting up your next WordPress site so you can develop locally, deploy to your live server, and maintain the code base and providing site maintenance....
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