Does your church communications team encourage you to learn to code?
Church communities are great places to pass on skills and discover new ones. Music teams have “band practice” so there is no reason why media and communications teams can’t have outlets to share knowledge…
Here are six free or affordable online resources that might help you and your collaborators get started in learning how to develop for the web:
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has an uphill battle in the world of web development. After developers have wrestled with the 14-billion versions of outdated browsers, they’ve built a nearly impossible-to-break persona of being a huge pain in the neck.
Although I appreciate Microsoft’s latest move to make developers life easier, it may take more to buck their negative stereotype.
What do you think? Here’s a quick look at Modern.IE:
A few weeks ago I posted a responsive web design tool to help adjust the view portal for responsive testing.
It was alright, another tool to check out and maybe add to your bookmarks, but I’m always interested in finding new and better tools. In the comments, Dave tipped me off on a Google Chrome app that will adjust your view portal while using Google Chrome.
How slick is that?
Check it out:
Grids are pretty yummy, but when you start adding in some LESS or SASS then they become delicious.
Here’s a sweet little gem I found called, Profound Grid. It’s a responsive grid system for both fixed and fluid layouts. Best of all, it’s built with some SCSS that gives an extra edge of flexibility and control.
I’m always on the look-out for resources for testing responsive websites.
Sure, native is better, but not everyone can afford to have all of these devices, am I right?
Responsive Tools is another way to do your testing that’s easy to use and provides a silhouette of the device, adding a little extra when getting a feel as to how your website will look at the respective device.
Here’s how Responsive Tools works:
Even if you’re using a UI for GitHub, I recommend Gitbox, this Git Cheat Sheet is really helpful.
If you like keying your commands in, this is a must have, but the included diagram of showing the clone, branch, push, etc … is really helpful in gaining a conceptual understanding of what’s going on with GitHub as you use it.
Enough of my SEO rambling, here’s the magic:
Testing your website for errors can be … well … detestable?
With SimplyTestable you can make your testing a little bit less detestable, as you save time and trouble with one-click front-end web testing for your entire site.
Here’s a peek:
I’ve been using CodeKit as part of my ultimate web building work environment, so when I first saw this CSS refresh tool I was pretty, “meh,” about it.
But after further review, this could be a really sweet tool when building and tweaking websites when dealing with clients and/or working collaboratively on a website.
Take a look at CSSrefresh:
Check your HTML code with this handy online tool.
You can drop-in your code and have it sniffed-out or use the handy bookmarklet with the choice of using WCAG 2.0 Level AA, WCAG 2.0 Level AA and WCAG 2.0 Level A.
However, it’s not for the faint of heart.
Do you know the dangers of migrating a WordPress site from one domain name to another?
Whether it be changing your entire domain name or migrating from a localhost install to the live web, you can’t just make a couple SQL tweaks and call it good.
Here’s why:
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