Selectors are really one of the most important concepts you can learn in web development. You can’t style anything on a web page without first using a selector to target the various items. In addition, you can also use CSS selectors in many other interesting ways in various programming languages. So for this tutorial we are going to learn all about CSS Selectors. We’ll look at the Simple selectors such as Type, Class, ID, Universal, and Attribute based.…
What Is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)? CSS is a method of applying rules to HTML documents to change or add style to the appearance of content in a website. Cascading Style Sheets keeps the content and the presentation independent of each other. Keeping this separation of content and presentation makes it easier to maintain the overall look of a website by allowing updates to be made to a central file instead of updating every single page individually.…
WordPress is a powerful publishing platform which allows both users with no coding experience and developers alike to create and share content quickly and easily. What if you want to start developing themes and plugins for your WordPress website or for clients? Well, you don’t want to try and touch the WordPress Core code. Theme developers and plugin developers have access to hundreds of functions the WordPress core exposes so that they can extend and customize any WordPress installation to perform and behave exactly as they would like.…
Let’s learn about the most exciting thing to come to front end web layout in a long time. That is the technology of CSS Grid. CSS Grid is a brand new set of technologies that allows web designers and developers to incorporate powerful page layout techniques on the web. Traditionally, page layout of the web has been an extremely challenging practice. In the past we may have used tables, divs, layers, all kinds of CSS hacks, and ultimately CSS Frameworks like Foundation, Bootstrap, and others.…
In this tutorial we are going to build a small project using the MEVN stack. MEVN is the acronym for MongoDB, Express, VueJS, and Node.js as the full stack application. MongoDB is our data storage mechanism, Express is the middleware to handle HTTP requests and routing, VueJS is the client side JavaScript to render data, and Node.js is the server our application will run on. As an added bonus, we’ll include a cool Bootswatch theme to make the CSS look good.…
