Launching a new website is infinitely more complicated than you might think when the project first starts. If you’re not working with a completed website launch checklist, problems will occur down the line that may hinder business goals. Whether you’re the client, or the web developer, it’s important to cross the t’s and dot the i’s before officially declaring a web project “complete.” To make the task a little more easy and organized, here’s the ultimate website launch checklist:...
I realize that some of you reading this tutorial may have never used an icon font before. You may even be asking yourself, what exactly is an icon font? Icon fonts are simply another way of displaying icons on your websites. In the past, it was a common practice to use images as icons. But using images for icons usually results in additional requests to the server. So to address this problem, designers have turned to icon fonts. An icon font is exactly like a normal font. The only difference is, instead of a...
Co-Authors Plus is a free WordPress plugin to manage multi-author blogs. If you accept guest posts from your readers and give them credit, you can use this free plugin to manage guest authors very easily. You don’t need to create a new user account for each new guest author. Co-Authors Plus makes it very simple and easy to manage guest authors but this plugin is not for beginner WordPress users. Because you will have to edit your theme to properly display author information on each blog post. After installing...
If you are planning to launch a new product, an online project, or simply an ordinary blog site, posting a “Coming Soon” page with a countdown informs your potential visitors about the release date as well notifying them that the site is still in progress. You can even have a subscription form for your potential visitors to sign up with and receive an email notification once the site is ready to launch. There are plenty of coming soon page and under construction templates available online for a couple...
Bootstrap is beloved by many. Well, if not “beloved”, then it is at least appreciated for what it is: a giant framework with almost everything you could need for building a site or web app interface. Bootstrap is changing, though. That’s right, version four is in alpha release. Naturally, we're just as curious to know what’s different, so I dived into the documentation to find out. Keep in mind, though, that this is an alpha release. It cannot be considered feature-complete. It could radically...
Since its release in 2009, AngularJS has gained immense popularity due to the compelling features it’s packed with. Being an extremely advanced JavaScript MVW framework, not only does it enhance HTML with Directives; but it also simplifies both development and testing for developers. For some people, it seems quite difficult to learn Angular through the official documentation provided. Attempting to gain knowledge of Angular, they repeatedly search for related resources and often don’t...
The progress bar has been used on the web ever since we realized that not everything would load instantly for everyone. These bars serve to notify the user about the progress of a specific task in your website, such as uploading, downloading, loading an app etc. It used to be impossible to create a progress bar animation without the use of JavaScript but thanks to CSS3 we're now able to perform animations, add gradients and some multi-color element inside a div. In fact HTML5 has also a special progress...
Everyone is familiar with the WordPress loop, even if they don’t know it. It is a method WordPress uses to display posts on any given page. In addition to being performed on most pages you see it offers tons of flexibility by allowing itself to be modified, and that quite extensively, if needed. The end result of this is the ability to list posts by comment count, show only those with featured images, display only password-protected ones and so on. In this article we’ll take a look at how the default WordPress...