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  • Laziness principle

    Do as little as possible and reuse code whenever it’s available.  The laziness principle is one of the core tenants of web design and development. Look for existing code and existing solutions. Bake them into your child theme and then make small iterations to make it work the way you want. By using existing code, you’re…

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  • Types of input fields

    Input fields provide people with a way to answer the questions we ask, they also provide us with an opportunity to help people with their answers. Radio buttons let a user select ONLY ONE of a limited number of choices. Checkboxes let a user select ZERO or MORE options of a limited number of choices.

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  • Child theme WordPress

    WordPress will load the parent’s CSS file first and then it will load your child theme’s CSS file. So you can write CSS in your child theme and because it’s loaded later than the parent’s CSS file your changes will still show up.  In a folder wp_content/theme/ create a folder for a child theme. Inside we need to create two…

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  • Css rules

    What are the components of a CSS rule? A CSS rule consists of two main parts: selector (‘h1’) and declaration (‘color: red’). In HTML, element names are case-insensitive so ‘h1’ works just as well as ‘H1’. The declaration has two parts: property name (‘color’) and property value (‘red’).

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  • Elements of design

    Color(hue) Value(tone) is a degree of lightness or darkness of a given color Texture is the surface quality of any defined shape or line Shape can be defined as any flat area bound by line, value, color Form can be described as the overall mass of shapes in your design and the relationship between them Space (white space) refers to…

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  • Color theory

    CMYK (cyan magenta yellow black ) is used by commercial printers.  RGB (red green blue ) is the electronic color system  Pantone produces a wide array of specific inks Additive colors: this color model involves the mixing of colored lights, such as a computer or TV screen into red, green, and blue. Subtractive color: this color model involves…

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  • Color Description

    Hue – pure color Tint – hue + white (pastel of hue) Tone – Hue + grey Shade – Hue + black Hue, Saturation, and Value (HSV) are three key components that describe a color: hue refers to the color itself (like red, blue, or green), saturation is the intensity or purity of that color, and value represents its…

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  • Design Principles

    Good design is possible without understanding the principles of design. But it may take a lot of trial and error to create something that both looks good and creates an optimal user experience.

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  • Pseudo-classes for forms

    Pseudo-classes in CSS allow you to style elements based on their state or relationship to other elements, particularly useful for forms. 

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  • PHP syntax

    Every php program begins with <?php and ends with ?>. Php generates dynamic data for the page and helps to process forms and other inputs. Each command ends with a semicolon ; Comments // single line comment /* Multiline comment or block comment */ Variables Any string in “” will be processed by PHP before it’s outputted. Will print:…

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