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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

SitePoint Ambassador of the Month: March 2016

It feels like yesterday when the SitePoint Ambassadors program kicked off. Hard to believe we’ve arrived at our 5th month!

We’re honored to pass the torch of Ambassador of the Month to someone who—though he works tirelessly by day at his day job—manages to spend quality time with the SitePoint community. It’s our friendly neighbor from Greece, Panayiotis Velisarakos!

Panayiotis Velisarakos

Panayiotis has been working in and around the Web for almost twenty years, using a variety of front-end and back-end technologies, tools and platforms. His strength nowadays is focused very much on front-end development and building great-looking sites.

Panayiotis mentioned to us that, if you sit still, web technologies will just pass you by. This is why he dedicates so much time to refining his skills: his love of books and blogs keeps him very busy!

During the rare few moments Panayiotis isn’t focused on web things, he is happily relaxing with his family (and occasionally playing games online).

We asked Panayiotis to tell us a bit more about his interactions with SitePoint. Here’s what he had to say:

SitePoint has always been one of the few sites I visited daily. I’ve loved reading the new articles and expanding my web knowledge. I would check back continually to look for new books and resources on SitePoint Premium to help me expand my skill set.

Keeping up-to-date with advancements in web technologies would be very difficult without communities like SitePoint. I really enjoy devoting as much free time as I can to support them.

The Ambassador program was an opportunity for me to contribute to the web community in a meaningful way. Letting me reach a wider audience and make the best of the time and effort I could spare.

Why thank you! It’s good to know the program has proved useful for SitePoint contributors, and we’re looking forward to the continued development of the program. With people like Panayiotis, I’m sure this will be a great journey.

Watch out this space!

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by Elio Qoshi via SitePoint

A Quick Guide to the WordPress Customizer Interface

Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of the theme? Perhaps you want to sell a theme on Envato Market and you want to let buyers adjust the color scheme and logo to match their brand.

That's where the WordPress theme Customizer comes in. By making your theme Customizer-ready, you let site owners instantly change their website look and feel from within the WordPress admin UI.

In this short video tutorial from my recent course on writing Customizer-ready WordPress themes, I’ll demonstrate the Customizer interface. I’ll show you the default controls that come with WordPress, and then go through examples of different controls that you could add (the actual process of adding them is covered later in the course).

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In the full course, Writing Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes, I’ll teach you how to harness the power of the Customizer in your themes. We'll add all of those extra sections that you just saw previewed in this video, with detailed instructions to help you get everything set up. You'll see how easy it is to let users of your theme customize the color scheme of their site and add elements like logos and text.

by Rachel McCollin via Envato Tuts+ Code

The Top 20 One Page Websites from 2015

2015 was another mega year for the One Page website. Did you know we reviewed 601 unique One Page websites in 2015!

Below are our Top 20 picks out of the 64 One Pagers we awarded “Most Loved” last year. It was difficult narrowing this down and there is no ranking order but each is given a reason why we think it was worthy of a Top 20 placement.

Factors that influenced our decisions were mainly the quality of the One Page website but there are one or two we have included due to the huge amount of social sharing they received – an obvious indication of our reader appreciation. The round up was such a nostalgic and humbling experience – long live the One Page website!

Hope you enjoy,
Rob

In Pieces (Informational)

‘In Pieces’ is a phenomenal CSS-based interactive experiment bringing awareness to 30 endangered species. It’s difficult to put into words what Amsterdam-based interactive designer, Bryan James, has achieved in this incredible One Pager – make sure you read his build notes in this review.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

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Related Links

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In Pieces (Informational)

We Ain’t Plastic (Portfolio)

Rally Interactive (Portfolio)

Si Le Soleil (Long-Form Journalism)

34 (Product)

Epicurrence No 3. (Event)

Ginventory (iPhone App)

FS Millbank (Download)

St. Louis Browns Historical Society (Sport, Informational)

Bia Costa (Portfolio, Résumé)

Mélanie F (Product, Landing Page)

Ava Sessions (Experimental)

Melanie Daveid (Portfolio)

Brand-On Johns-On (Personal, Résumé)

Ghostly Ferns (Portfolio)

Almost everything we think we know about Addiction is wrong (Informational, Long-Form Journalism)

The Gift Of Giving (E-Commerce, Product)

Café Frida (Restaurant)

The Tuck Effect (Landing Page)

Day of the Dead (Event)

What an inspiration overload!