After installing the twenty fifteen theme I found that disqus' comments were butting up against the edges of the layout. You can fix this by adding the following Custom CSS @media screen and (min-width: 59.6875em) { #disqus_thread { margin-top: 8.333%; margin-left: 8.333%; margin-right: 8.333%; } } @media screen and (min-width: 38.75em) { #disqus_thread { … Continue reading How To: Tweak Disqus CSS for Twenty Fifteen Theme
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How to Set Responsive Text Alignment in Bootstrap 3
Bootstrap is great, almost perfect. One thing it's missing is responsive text-align. So I created a simple .less file that uses Bootstraps breakpoints and class naming format. It allows you use set specific text-align for specific breakpoints. https://gist.github.com/ohryan/b9593841c024c033783d
Carousels Are Useless
Carousels are a lazy and ineffective way to surface content on the web. Stop using them. -- End of Post -- Earlier this year, Erik Runyon the director of web stuff at the prestigious University of Notre Dame, took a close look at how their users were interacting with carousel content. He found that of the 1% of … Continue reading Carousels Are Useless
Dot-Com Era Browser Tech
Thanks to my RetroPosts plugin, this weekend I was reminded of a blog post I wrote in 2008 - Web Dev Challenge: 1996 Compatibility. In the post I outlined rules for developing for browsers from 1996: CSS1, Javascript 1, 640x480 screen resolution, etc. I think I assumed this would be a relatively simple challenge, but … Continue reading Dot-Com Era Browser Tech
On Scaling WordPress
In yesterday's post, I mentioned that to scale WordPress you "just cache it." That's a pretty big claim to make without any sort of references. Here's Peter Chester of Modern Tribe's talk on the subject from WordCamp LA 2011. http://wordpress.tv/2011/11/01/peter-chester-170-radio-stations-wordpress-at-scale/