Blog posts about The internet at Permanent Tourist

How to mock up a website design when every page can be built individually and controlled completely by the editorial staff.

Letter size comparison by Alexander Andrews @ Unsplash

There are three main options for setting the size of text in the web using CSS. The font size can be set in “pixels”, in “EM”s or in ”REM”s. It can be a little difficult to understand where the differences lie, and which unit of measurement is correct.

Since the release of WordPress 5.2, authors and editors can put together their own reusable content components without needing to do any programming work. This is thanks to a powerful combination of Reusable Blocks and the Group Block.

Screenshot of the Gutenberg colour picker

Using CSS variables through the WordPress Theme Customizer to make custom colour schemes in the Gutenberg Editor.

Implementing a CSS- and SVG-based responsive imagemap for a client in Toronto.

How I use WordPress’ template part logic, but additionally pass scoped data to the template part.

WordPress’ Gutenberg Editor allows you to do much more than create and edit content in a single content column.

Mark Howells-Mead on stage at WordCamp Zurich

I’ve been using WordPress since the very first version and love it. In a talk at WordCamp Zurich, I shared some of the experiences I’ve gained as a CMS developer, website builder, content manager and blogger since the late 1990s.

The history of the web (and the invention of jam) by Martin Splitt at Front Conference in Zurich.

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Four years after writing that BEM syntax in CSS indicates weak coding principles, it’s time for a retraction.

How to create your own Gutenberg block with only a full or wide alignment option, instead of the usual possibilities.

Scrrenshot of Rachel Andrew's website, built using CSS Grid

I’m beginning to delve into the newest extension of the CSS style rule possibilities at a professional level, in order to design and create websites which break the mould.

Screenshot of Kipfer holiday apartment, Faulensee, Switzerland

Using a website visitor’s browser settings to seamlessly display content in a language they can understand.

The farewell photo of my fourth office desk in Switzerland, before I start afresh in the Bernese Oberland.

Some people believe that WordPress isn’t suitable for more than a simple website. Throughout my career, I’ve proved that assumption wrong many times over.

I’m moving to Swiss web agency Say Hello as partner, client consultant and full-stack developer from January 2019.

How I swapped out individual sections of a high-traffic site to make best use of WordPress’ REST API.

The team and presenters at WordCamp Lausanne 2018

I presented at the WordCamp conference in Lausanne a couple of weeks ago, on the subject of website usability. The video of my talk is now online.

I’ve been using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress for nearly five years, and it’s implemented in every project I’ve created or worked on since I began using it. At work, our WordPress Themes depend on Theme Options, which are set using custom fields created by the plugin. In order to make the technique […]