Category: wordpress

Does your slider make the text flicker?

I see this on lots of sites. Flexslider causes it. Every time the slider moves, text on some other part of the page flickers—on Safari. As far as I know, this is a Safari-only issue. The solution, fortunately, is a little CSS: -webkit-backface-visibility:hidden; Just put this on whatever is flickering. It also fixes the annoying lines that grow around the ‘navigation spots’ in Safari.…

Responsive web design: a list of methods

Responsive web design was the biggest web design buzz-phrase of 2012, and I’ve spent much of my summer working on the best, and fastest, ways to make a site responsive.  What I found worked best was all based on three ideas: breakpoints in the stylesheet device-specific conditional PHP high resolution, or resolution independent graphics for retina screens The breakpoints are the simplest. You can make a pretty good responsive site with just CSS breakpoints.  …

website testing

To build websites you need an assortment of testing platforms.. a smartphone, a tablet, and preferably more than one size computer monitor. I’m a mac person, so most of my testing is on apple gear. I use a PC set up in Parallels, a virtual machine, on my mac for testing on PC browsers. I have: a 1680 x 1050 display on my primary working machine Windows 7 running on Parallels, on the primary machine a 1366 x 768 laptop an iPad — version 3 an iPhone 3 On my computers I have a selection of browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari on the mac, and IE, Firefox and Chrome on the PC.  …

WordPress Security

I’ve been going through all my websites and installing Jeff Starr’s: 5G Blacklist. It is pasted into the .htaccess file at the server root. The blacklist is a list of known malicious entities that are constantly attempting to break into websites.  It is formatted in some very clever GREP code that attempts to filter out all malicious server requests, and allow all legitimate ones through.  That’s not a simple task.  …