Posts from the category Internet
HTTP/2 allows you to separate your CSS, JavaScript and other template resources into individual files, without running into problems with multiple requests.
The CSS :not() selector
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One of the best CSS tips I’ve come across in recent months is the :not() selector. Rather than having to define a set of rules for an element, then re-defining new rules for the element when it has a certain class or attribute, you can use :not() to be more specific in the first place.
Technical case study: !frappant
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My employer re-branded recently, which meant a new corporate identity and a new website using Zurb Foundation, CSS Flexbox and TYPO3.
I reported an issue to the WordPress Core team about eighteen months ago, noting that the function which creates thumbnails of larger images in the CMS strips the EXIF data from these smaller files. This means that not only is geo information lost, but so are keywords and copyright information set in the file using
Multilingual list of Swiss localities
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We could do with a comprehensive, multilingual list of Swiss localities for work projects, so after a bit of digging and a suggestion from Habi, I came across a reference on which to base the list. After tidying it and converting it to tab-separated format (for optimal use in Excel), I’ve made it publicly accessible as
Better image compression settings for WordPress
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Improve the speed of your WordPress website by reducing the file size of the automatically-generated images.
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Re-booting for 2016
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Better, simpler, cleaner. Online resolutions to coincide with the new year.
Hotel Posthuis, Melchsee Frutt
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Hotel Posthuis in Melchsee Frutt gets a shiny new website, to say thank you for all their hospitality through the years.
Rocket-powered websites
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Websites get from where they live to your computer via a network of wires. They’re transferred using a technology called HTTP, which has been stuck at version 1.1 for a little more than sixteen years. All well and good: if it’s not broken, then why fix it? The reason to fix it is that since
My First App
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Experiences building my first ever phone app, using Cordova and jQuery to deliver content from a WordPress installation.
Don’t do speculative work for web clients
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Would you invest your time, experience and effort to do your job when there was a potential that your client or boss wouldn’t pay you for it?
Ten years at Flickr
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A brief history of ten years using the online photo-sharing service Flickr.
WordCamp Switzerland 2015
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Lessons learned and presentations seen at this year’s WordPress conference in Zurich.
SEO für WordPress
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Zusammenfassung der Themen bezüglich SEO, die wir gestern an ein WordPress-Meetup in Bern besprochen haben.
Reusability thanks to modular coding
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My erstwhile mentor in Brienz taught me throughout our years working together that if a website functionality is worth creating, it’s worth creating so that it can be used in more than one project. Programme once, install many times. This is a credo I’ve maintained since I started programming for content management systems and one…
