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Tracy Rotton is a web developer for RP3 Agency in Bethesda, Maryland with a passion for standards-based front-end development. A big fan of WordPress, she is a contributor to the new WordPress default theme, Twenty Thirteen. When Tracy isn't building websites, she enjoys skiing, watching Redskins football and spending time with her two young children.
April 18, 2013 in Learn
WordPress 3.6 is right around the corner, due to be released in early May. What can you expect from the next version of this popular blogging and CMS platform? A lot! This release’s underlying theme has been “Improving the Editing…
March 18, 2013 in Learn
jQuery is great. It’s cross-browser, easy to learn, and makes adding interactivity to your website a breeze. It also comes with plenty of plugins to do almost whatever you need it to do. But what if you can’t find just…
February 27, 2013 in Learn
Some people fear the command line. They view it as the deep, dark underbelly of their computer, far from the familiar comforts of the GUI. A place of great mystery where even the angels fear to tread. But then there…
February 6, 2013 in Learn
Not too long ago, as I was browsing the web on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, I came across a typical form on a typical website. The buttons were fairly standard faire — gradients, rounded corners, colored text —…
January 24, 2013 in Learn
It’s no secret that WordPress is one of the most popular platforms in our industry. There are multiple companies in every town and in every country that claim to do WordPress installations and websites. As we know, very few of…
January 9, 2013 in Learn
In the first part of our tutorial on Compass sprites, I showed you how awesome it was that we could make Compass do all the hard work for us by simply throwing our icons into their own folder and telling…
December 21, 2012 in Learn
CSS preprocessors have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their capacity to do a lot of the most tedious parts of CSS for you automatically. (For an overview of the different CSS preprocessors available, see How to Choose…
December 12, 2012 in Learn
WordPress has come a long way from its humble blogging beginnings. With the popularization of Custom Posts Types (CPTs), WordPress has emerged to become a fully-featured CMS platform, suitable for any kind of content you can throw at it. However,…