Wednesday, November 2, 2016

AtoZ CSS Screencast: Widows and Orphans

Transcript

More and more these days, CSS is being used to control the styling of things other than websites.

One type of media that CSS can apply styling to is paged media - things like digital magazines and ebooks or a website in the form of a print stylesheet.

There are some properties that only apply to this media type. The widows and orphans properties are two that allow us to control how lines of text flow around page breaks.

In this episode we’ll learn about:

  • Paged media
  • widows and orphans

Paged Media

When writing CSS, we are normally styling content that is destined for being displayed on a screen.

But there’s a whole range of properties specifically for paged media which describes how a document can be flowed into a series of pages.

It adds functionality for pagination, page margins, page size, orientation, and extends generated content to enable page numbering and page headers and footers.

The closest thing to working with the CSS Page spec that I’ve come across in real-world web development is creating print stylesheets. We touched on this in "Episode 13: Media Queries".

When dealing with this completely different medium of printed content, there are a couple of CSS properties available that don’t apply to screen media. Let’s have a look at two for controlling the flow of text between pages.

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by Guy Routledge via SitePoint

Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 2

10 Ways to Grow an Organic Instagram Presence

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Do you want more Instagram followers? Looking for organic Instagram growth tactics? With more than 300 million active monthly users, Instagram still offers businesses the opportunity to reach new users without buying ads. In this article, you’ll discover 10 organic tactics used by top Instagram marketers to gain more Instagram followers. Tips From Sue B. [...]

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Paper Planes

Catch and throw Paper Planes with one another around the world: a simple concept using the power of the web and Android to create an instant connection to one another. (Best on mobile)
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

How to Reuse Old Content to Improve Your SEO

How to Reuse Old Content to Improve Your SEO

The World Wide Web is growing at an unbelievable rate and the amount of content on the internet is growing exponentially. Estimates from the website Internet Live Stats put the total number of websites on the internet at well over 1 billion, with over 4 million blog posts created every single day.

This poses a huge problem for website owners that seek to gain the attention of an increasingly impatient audience. It doesn’t matter how engaging and creative your content is, if you aren’t creating new material, you won’t be found on the internet and you won’t be able to grow your audience.

One of the best ways to reach new audiences is to repurpose old content. By giving old blog posts a facelift, you can recycle items from your archive while simultaneously generating a new audience.

by Guest Author via Digital Information World

Versioning Show, Episode 14, with Nicole Sanchez

In this episode, David and Tim talk with Nicole Sanchez, the Vice President of Social Impact at GitHub. They discuss the challenges of ensuring cultural and gender diversity in technology, the economic benefits of diverse communities … and David’s private room in Slack for doing politically incorrect things with the new /giphy plugin.

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by Tim Evko via SitePoint

Browser Trends November 2016: Rise of the Underdog

In October, we discussed reasons why Edge has struggled to gain momentum. Are November's StatCounter browser statistics better for Microsoft's flagship browser?…

Worldwide Desktop & Tablet Browser Statistics, September to October 2016

The following table shows browser usage movements during the past month.

Browser September October change relative
Chrome 58.89% 59.39% +0.50% +0.80%
Firefox 13.66% 13.28% -0.38% -2.80%
IE11 7.68% 6.95% -0.73% -9.50%
oldIE 2.13% 1.94% -0.19% -8.90%
Edge 2.78% 2.82% +0.04% +1.40%
Safari 4.30% 4.79% +0.49% +11.40%
iPad Safari 5.30% 5.42% +0.12% +2.30%
Opera 1.72% 1.91% +0.19% +11.00%
Others 3.54% 3.50% -0.04% -1.10%

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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint