The sidebar is all sorts of useful. There’s no limit on the number of different sorts of things that could go in a sidebar. Your RSS button? Definitely. Ads? For sure! A video? Heck, why not? You can even have multiple sidebars… one on each side of your content, or two right next to each… Continue reading HTML/PHP: Sidebars, and What Have YOU Done Lately?
Author: Allison Day
HTML: Footer
For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the header of your website. So what’s next? Well, there’s the content section of you website, which changes on every page, and the sidebar, which can get complicated as well. So I thought this week, we’d take a little break and talk about the footer –… Continue reading HTML: Footer
HTML: Header Accessibility
By now, your header’s rockin’, I just know it. You know how to put a cool background on it, use one of WordPress’ built-in functions to put all your pages in the navigation, make your list of pages display nicely as a horizontal navigation, and use CSS to add cool, classy effects to your navigation… Continue reading HTML: Header Accessibility
HTML/CSS: Hovering In Your Navigation
Now that you’ve got your navigation lining up all prettily, what’s next? Well, you could stop there, if you wanted. But there’s so much more you could do using the wonders of CSS, to make your navigation (and soon your entire blog!) even more beautiful. Prettify Your World! Or At Least Your Navigation… There are… Continue reading HTML/CSS: Hovering In Your Navigation
HTML/CSS: Navigation: All Your Cookies In A Row
Last week, we discussed the super-cool wp_list_pages($args) function, and how it can make creating your navigation on your website super easy. If you want your navigation in your sidebar, for example, or anywhere else as a vertical list, then this already works perfectly. But what if you want it as a part of your header,… Continue reading HTML/CSS: Navigation: All Your Cookies In A Row
HTML: Navigation
Last week in my coding series, we discussed headers. More specifically, we discussed how to put a gorgeous logo onto your header, using the background attribute in CSS. It’s a wonderful start, but there’s far more to headers than that, you know. For example, navigation. Although some people put their navigation in the sidebar, the… Continue reading HTML: Navigation
HTML: An Intro To Headers
So you want to start putting together a website. Where do you start? Well, at the top, of course. The first thing anyone ever sees on your website is your header – so you want it to be great. What goes into a good header? A good design, for one thing. A great logo, some… Continue reading HTML: An Intro To Headers
HTML: Head(er), Shoulders, Knees, and Toes…
For the last two months we’ve been talking about PHP. The month before that, we discussed tables, ids, classes, and other rules and concepts that are important for developing a website theme. All of that is important, very much so. You couldn’t develop a website without it. However, what I have not yet explained is… Continue reading HTML: Head(er), Shoulders, Knees, and Toes…
PHP: Wrapping Things Up
If you’ve been reading my posts about coding the last few weeks, then you’re pretty much ready to deal with any of the PHP that you come across in a WordPress theme. Heck, maybe you’re even ready to write your own PHP! I’m so proud… you’re all such good students. But before we move on… Continue reading PHP: Wrapping Things Up
PHP: Real Code, And A Game Of Hangman
I’m such a tease. For the last two weeks, I’ve been tempting you with a game of hangman, promising you real PHP code that actually works… none of that silly pseudo-code business. Can you blame me? I’ve got to keep you all coming back somehow… Well. Today, I tease no more, my friends. Not only… Continue reading PHP: Real Code, And A Game Of Hangman