What is Responsive Web Design? Responsive web design is an approach to designing a web site so that it will accommodate devices of various screen sizes and orientations. It makes use of CSS (cascading style sheets) media queries to determine the type of device that the user is using. Media queries are placed in your…
Installing WordPress on Your Local Machine in 10 Steps
This video is about Installing WordPress on Your Local Machine in 10 Steps. If you are just beginning to learn web development or just want to play around with WordPress, this tutorial will get you started. This tutorial applies to Windows and MacOS.
Creating a WordPress Child Theme
A couple of good reasons to create a WordPress child theme for your WordPress site are if you update the theme, all customizations like CSS and custom functions will likely be lost because these files will be overwritten. The other reason is that development is usually faster because you don’t have to search through a…
WordPress Development Workflow in 6 Easy Steps
I am an independent developer and creating a simple WordPress development workflow has been a challenging topic for me. What I needed was a way to develop a new site locally and easily move it to a the production server when it was ready to publish. I also needed a way to test the site…
Editing The Hosts File For Local Web Development
When I start working on a new site for a client, I like to setup a local subdomain based on the client’s domain like dev.yourdomain.com. Make sure you add this domain to the Settings > General page in WordPress. To do this, you will need to edit the hosts file. Here are some basic directions:…