How-to-customize-responsive-wordpress-themes. How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes is a new series of articles I’ll be posting at the rate of one every few days.
This article is an introduction to the series, which I’ll be updating with links and additional info as subsequent articles go live. Responsive WordPress themes have taken the design community by storm since their first appearance. For good reason too. With all the awesome advances in mobile communications, and the proliferation of mobile devices, folks are now accessing the web a whole lot more often from their phones than from their computers. It used to be that if you had a website, and wanted to make it accessible to people on mobile devices, you had to either create a dedicated mobile site, or a bunch of dedicated apps. The whole idea of responsiveness in WordPress themes is to ensure that your web pages serve up lightning fast to any device, from the smallest hand-held to wall-mounted big-screens.
Featured Plugin - WordPress Pop-Up Chat Plugin Find out more. Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme. Last year, WordPress launched arguably its biggest update ever: WordPress 3.01.
Accompanying this release was the brand new default theme, TwentyTen2, and the promise of a new default theme every year. Somewhat surprisingly, TwentyTen declares the HTML5 doctype but doesn’t take advantage of many of the new elements and attributes that HTML5 brings. Now, HTML5 does many things, but you can’t just add <! Doctype html> to the top of a document and get excited that you’re so 2011. Mark-up, as they say, is meaning, and HTML5 brings a whole bunch of meaning to our documents.
In a recent survey3 by Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks, almost two thirds of respondents said they would not use HTML5 in new projects. WordPress seems to sympathize with the majority of CSS-Tricks’ readers. 5The default TwentyTen WordPress Theme. For example, you’ve probably already heard of the <section> and <article> tags, both of which are champing at the bit to be embedded in a WordPress template. Mordernizr.js … to: HTML Beginner Tutorial. KompoZer User Guide: 4 Style and stylesheets. KompoZer User Guide - Section 4 4.1 Introduction to style Note Where the icon occurs click it to reveal differences in the behaviour of Nvu if this interests you.
The use of styles is already well established in word processing and desk top publishing. In web site design it assumes an even more important role and can control almost every aspect of presentation. Styles in HTML documents should comply with the requirements of the W3C style specifications. A full introduction and many useful references may be found at 4.1.1 Power of styles Styles specify how particular elements on a page appear on the screen, in print or whatever. Style may typically define such aspects of presentation as the font face, size and variant, the font colour, the background colour, whether an element is to be aligned right, centre or left, whether spaced away from other elements, surrounded by a border and, if so, what type or colour.
Note You can see the outlines of the blocks by selecting ‘View - Block outline’.