I always hide the h1 for the homepage of a site. This is the most modern way that I have found to hide it without hurting anything. Just add the “.home-h1” class below:
Tags: accessibility, css, seo, web development
The Premise: In 2020, we needed a sub-navigation system on jtcc.edu that matched up to the HTML that an outside company had built for us and it turned out to be a bit more complex than you might expect. We needed it to automatically show the direct children of any page a visitor visits. However, […]
Tags: coding, css, jquery, js, web development
Much like DevEd, who I mentioned in my last JS post, I have been following Brad from Traversy Media for quite a while and greatly appreciate the work he puts into both his paid and free courses and videos. So, when I realized this course on Udemy was taught by him, I knew immediately that […]
Tags: courses, mysql, php, reviews, tutorial, web development
By default, the wp_enqueue_style() function will put whatever version of WordPress that you currently have installed behind your CSS call like this: <link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’https://jeradsdesign.com/wp-main/wp-content/themes/jeradsdesign-wp/css/main.css?ver=5.8.2′ type=’text/css’ media=’all’ /> Grab the theme version from your style.css file: $theme = wp_get_theme();define(‘THEME_VERSION’, $theme->Version); Pass it as the 3rd parameter in your wp_enqueue_style() function in your functions.php: wp_enqueue_style(‘main’, get_template_directory_uri() […]
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Someone on Twitter recently asked this, or more accurately… they asked, “what makes googling code different from googling anything else?” I responded: I’d say it comes down to specificity. “best apple pie recipe” has a high chance that great recipes display in the 1st results page & relate directly to what I’m looking for. However […]
Tags: career advice, coding, programming, web development
I have been following DevEd on YouTube for a few years now and decided to purchase his The Creative JavasScript Course. I hope to teach JavaScript(JS) to college students soon and needed to brush up on my vanilla JS skills. Ed is a fantastic teacher. I get bored easily when watching hours of coding videos […]
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Website usability is not always obvious. First, I should probably define usability so that all of us are on the same page. According to wikipedia, “Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object.” How Usable is a Driveway? The driveway at our house has a big problem. It’s only wide enough […]
Tags: ui, usability, user experience, user interface, ux, web development
Someone recently asked me, “My son wants to learn programming or web development, where should he start? What’s the best language to start with?” Choosing just one thing can feel like one of the hardest decisions when you are starting out and even after you’ve been working in the field for a while and want […]
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