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Navbar Dropdown Woe

Came across an issue with the Bootstrap navbar dropdown with respect to WordPress.  Here’s the issue: Download Bootstrap and put it up on your website (reference the min.css and min.js files). Go to the sample code for the Default Navbar in the Bootstrap docs...

Bootstrap

Typically, if using raw HTML/CSS, chances are that your site might work on something like Chrome, but not on something like Internet Explorer.  Enter Bootstrap – a collection of CSS and Javascript that handles the nuances between browsers.  It really has become...

CSS Performance

As I write the styling for a new site, I want to pay careful attention to too much CSS.  As a result, I did some searching on layout times and came across a list of CSS Selector types ordered from most efficient to least efficient.  Here they are: ID, e.g. #header...

Compiling LESS Files

Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.  I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...