Styling the WordPress Admin

The WordPress backend has a very specific look to it.  If you are looking to add a new page there, you’ll want to style it similarly.  It’s not very clear what is available, but after a lot of searching, I came across these links that help shine light on...

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...

Using LESS in Eclipse

If you are trying to use LESS files in Eclipse, you will notice that those files are viewed as plain text – no indenting, no color-coding, no outlining, etc.  If you want to fix this up so that these LESS files behave like CSS files, do the following: Install...

Quick impressions of web editors

See the update in the Recommendation section at the bottom of this article. I have installed and/or used a number of IDEs when editing web-languages, like PHP.  This article lists out what I have tried and my quick thoughts on each.  At the end, I make a current...

Awesome ways to display web icons

Great for visual indications, icons can add just enough interest to otherwise plain sites. Traditionally, Developers would use image files (like .gif, .jpg, or .png) to display in their markup.  The code for a button with some text and an icon might have looked...