Tag: css
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Add Variables, Operations, and Functions to Your CSS with the LESS Dynamic Stylesheet Language
As a programmer, the most frustrating part about working with CSS is the redundancy. If you’re designing a layout with a strict color and font scheme, you can find yourself copy/pasting the same same snippets over and over…and what if that scheme changes? You get to track down each element, which takes forever even with…
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How To: Make a CSS background slideshow with jQuery
If jQuery has one strength, it’s the library’s fantastic ability to manipulate HTML objects. Built into the library are easy to use methods for moving objects, adjusting CSS and tag attributes, changing visibility of anything on the page, and many more. To sweeten the deal, jQuery includes animation effects that allow you to transition any…
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Fix: Featured Content Gallery WordPress Plugin Displays Incorrectly in Internet Explorer 6
For many websites, the Featured Content Gallery for WordPress provides the centerpiece and main focal point of the front page (Techerator included). This plugin has the ability to display posts in a specific category as well as a graphic and accompanying text for a great preview of articles on the site. The Problem When doing…
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How To: Remove the Smiley from the WordPress.com Stats Plugin
One of the first plugins I installed when building the Techerator website was WordPress.com Stats, a plugin which offered useful and practical statistics (instead of the overwhelming metrics that Google Analytics and others provide) with the added benefit that since the statistics monitoring is hosted by WordPress, it would have no adverse impact on the…