Author: d_alcalay-pearlman

Artist, educator, graphic designer, web designer

ugly websites

Class favorites from the past http://www.lingscars.com/ http://www.webkinglasvegas.com/ Good websites http://www.furniture.com/ http://www. discountpoolsdirect.com/ http://www.eastbay.com/?SID= 6222&inceptor=1&cm_mmc=SEM-_- Non-Branded-_-D http://www.heels.com/ http://www.dolcegabbana.com/ beauty/perfumes   http://www.purchase.edu/ https://quizlet.com/ http://www.wsworkshop.org/ http://wholesalemeatscoventry.co.uk/ http://www.1001freefonts.com/ https://vote.berniesanders.com/ http://www.morganfreeman.net/ http://airandspace.si.edu/ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ http://www.germany.travel/en/index.html   http://www.wsworkshop.org/ http://ayumihorie.com/ http://www.sonja-hinrichsen.com/ http://www.mikiyakobayashi.com/ https://www.bigcartel.com/ http://monkeyjoe.com/ https://www.newpaltz.edu/ http://www.gildaycreative.com/ http://www.kingstonhappenings.org/ http://www.starbucks.com/ http://carlarozman.com https://www.dragonsearch.com http://www.wingcatwebdesign. com Bad websites http://briandettmer.com/exhibitions/   http://websiteheads.com/users/awp.php?ln=710044 http://www.mrbottles.com/ http://www.jamilin.com/ 5http://www.pennyjuice.com/htmlversion/whoispj.htm 6 http://www.arngren.net/ http://www.achtungpanzer.com/achtung-panzer-home…

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Adding Google Fonts to your website

Links to instructions: Hubspot Google Beginner’s Guide to Using Google Fonts  from The Design Shack 10 Great Google Font Combos  from The Design Shack

What Does a Designer do in Web Design?

UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry Plus: How Apple, Facebook, Google, and more tech-world heavyweights describe their design jobs. Read the article at here: FastcodeDesign.com  

Web Development– Job Popularity

Did you know: Web Developer is listed as  #11 in the top 100 Best jobs of 2015? The report from money.usnews.com states that  …. “The Labor Department considers this one of the fastest-growing jobs this decade, and it predicts employment will swell by about 20 percent by 2022.” Learn some of the technologies needed to…

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Making Child Themes more links

A great tutorial is on the Tesla Themes page My newest fav is from Smashing Magazine Great explanation as to why you should make Child Themes and what to do with them from Media Temple For those of you who love videos….

Where do I go from here?

Here is my short list, and a few links below to help you on your journey to creating a WordPress hosted site: Get a great Hosting Service! Here is a list, I’ve used two of them, Bluehost and GoDaddy with excellent results. Install Back-up software and use IMMEDIATELY!!!!! My favorite is Updraft. ALWAYS update to…

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How WordPress Works and other Intro Stuff

Welcome to Intro to WordPress! Your “textbook” will be this blog, all pertinent material and class notes will be posted here, as well as a wealth of resources to peruse over. First great source material can be found at the The Codex site by WordPress.org. Here is the Introduction page. Second, what is the difference…

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How is your website viewed?

Whether you prefer Chrome, Firefox or view the world from  your Android, if you are a web developer, you must keep in mind that your audience may be looking at things from a different perspective… SEE: The most popular US Websites from ZDNET and  The Most Popular Browsers in Europe via ‘51 DEGREES’  and a…

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Making Child Themes

We will use the excellent Generate Press theme (my latest favorite theme to customize) tonight to create a child theme. I. Using the WordPress Codex as a model, please copy the following code into a plain text document, : /*Theme Name: Learning Child Themes Theme URI: http://dinaalcalaypearlman.com/learning-child-themes Description: GeneratePress Child Theme Author: Dina Pearlman Author…

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