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Posts about Modular development and design

Modular development and design, in this context, relates to the web development principle of making a site or site design from individual building blocks, which are more easily developed, customized and maintained than a complex network of dependent parts.

  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    How to ensure that you don’t lose content or functionality when switching to a new WordPress Theme.

  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    The next stage of WordPress’ development is the ability to edit any part of a site – from post to navigation and footer – using nothing but the Block Editor.

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    More and more website development takes place using Javascript these days, whether within the WordPress CMS or as part of a streamlined frontend experience. I abandoned jQuery at the end of 2019 and began learning React in earnest.

  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Using register_block_pattern in WordPress can be a pain, as you need to manipulate the HTML in your code. Here’s a much less tiresome solution.

  • The new WordPress theme running this website has been improved by the use of WordPress’ get_template_part function.

  • A stripped-back, simple WordPress theme for my personal website, which I can begin extending as and when I have the time.

  • A summarized insight into maintaining individual features in your own WordPress plugins through the flexibility and organisation of modular development.

  • WordPress is much more than a simple tool for building websites. Here are a few prominent sites which use WordPress and its new REST API for much more than a simple blog.

  • I provide a free public Github repository containing example code for starting work on a WordPress theme which uses PHP namespaces and template parts.

  • I provide a free public Github repository containing example code for starting work on a WordPress plugin, which uses PHP namespaces.

  • Using modern web technologies to replicate the ubiquitous red panel used by Swiss railway company SBB CFF FFS.

  • The latest project we’ve launched at !frappant is for SBB (Swiss Railways): a microsite for the Rail Control System team, which promotes their work controlling the flow of rail traffic throughout the national network.

  • Store your design assets in one place with Lingo

    The new Lingo app (from The Noun Project) allows you to collate and manage your design assets in one place.

  • Andy Budd made a very important point during episode 93 of The Web Ahead podcast. In it, he’s answering a question raised about where a less-experienced web designer can find resources to see what the current “best practices” are for site element design.

  • My employer re-branded recently, which meant a new corporate identity and a new website using Zurb Foundation, CSS Flexbox and TYPO3.

  • 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…

  • Using modules in front end web programming to allow more flexibility and more independence from site layouts for content elements.