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For some time, people who owned and ran WordPress websites thought of being mobile-friendly as more than an option than a necessity. That changed a couple of years ago when the mobile user population surpassed the number of desktop users. With the gap widening with each passing year, it would seem foolhardy for webmasters to stick with non-mobile friendliness. When mobile users come across a website that isn’t convenient to explore, they will bounce off to another without a second thought, and you will miss out on the conversions that are the main goal of the website in the first […]

Test-driven development (TDD) is a philosophy of software development that is based on writing tests before writing a feature or bug fix. This is a big difference in terms of how you think about development. I find it to be very hard to move to TDD, both because it’s a different mental model and because it’s hard to change how you approach a code base. Before TDD, I wrote code that should work, tested it manually in my browser to see why it didn’t work, fixed it and then wrote tests. With TDD, I write functions declarations and tests that […]

If you’ve done any work in web development so far, then chances are very good that you’ve heard of Bootstrap. Basically, Bootstrap is a popular CSS, HTML, and JS framework that is used for developing a fast and responsible mobile project on the web. Bootstrap can be divided into three primary files: 1. Bootstrap.css, 2. Bootstrap.js, and 3. Glyphicons (fonts).  jQuery, a very popular JavaScript library, is also required in order for Bootstrap to function. The primary reason behind Bootstrap’s high popularity is the fact that its templates are highly customizable. So long as you have some knowledge in regards […]