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Breaking Down Barriers: The Importance of Web Accessibility for All Users
Website accessibility refers to the practice of designing and developing websites that are accessible and usable for people with disabilities, including those with visual, auditory, cognitive, and motor impairments. Ensuring that your website is accessible is essential for several reasons: Legal compliance: In many countries, including the United States, Canada, and many European countries, there […]
Edyta Jordan awarded Salesforce Developer Certification
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Salesforce JavaScript Developer Certification. Salesforce certification has become one of the most in-demand professional qualifications in the business world. With close to 40 certificates available under different career paths, they teach you how to get the maximum out of customer relationship management using Salesforce […]
Laravel Package for OpenWeather API now available under MIT license!
I’m happy to announce that Laravel Package for OpenWeather API is now available under MIT License on Packagist! I chose Packagist because it is a popular package repository for PHP projects and is widely used by developers to distribute their open-source PHP packages. Plus, it is the default Composer package repository. In the future, I […]
Edyta Jordan shines at ADDYs – American Advertising Awards
Edyta Jordan was recognized with a Gold ADDY during the American Advertising Awards (formerly known as ADDYs) ceremony. Photo by Ashley Esparza The award went to the EdytaJordan.me website in category Online/Interactive – Advertising Self Promotion. “I am very proud of my award and hard work I put into getting the result I wanted. I […]
My newest #SideHustle – Adele “Hello” Parody
Thanks to my teammates at Webhead I have discovered my newest #SideHustle 😉 Thanks #Webhead! Here is it: “Hello” parody.
Cheers!
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TailwindCSS – New CSS Kid on the Block!
Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML. This utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design directly in your markup.
This portfolio is proudly built on Tailwind 🙂
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Learn CSS Mastery with CSS-Tricks
Struggling with CSS or wanting to extend your knowledge on the subject? Visit CSS-Tricks.com – a portal with Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets.
WordCamp San Antonio 2016
After a long wait, the date and location for WordCamp San Antonio edition was finally announced! This year’s event will take place on October 22nd, 2016 at Texas A&M University San Antonio. For more information check out: https://2016.sanantonio.wordcamp.org.
Edyta Jordan featured in Pressable!
I had the pleasure to be featured in Pressable’s blog titled: “3 WordPress Plugins That Developers Can’t Live Without – Developer’s Pick”. Pressable is a WordPress Hosting Company located in San Antonio, TX. Its focus is to provide secure and reliable WordPress hosting. Pressable turned to three of their agency partners for advice, and asked […]
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Place Kitten – free image placeholder generator
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after provided URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
Visit PlaceKitten.com to get your placeholder images. You can’t go wrong with the kittens 🙂
How to Use GTMetrix to Improve Your Site Performance
GTmetrix tells you a lot about your website performance. This excellent, web based and totally free tool gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it. This tool is a gem for those who are looking to optimize their sites. Instead of downloading the YSlow extension, or going to Google Webmaster […]
RIP Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10
Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10 reached its “end of life” this month. Internet Explorer (IE) has long been the bane of many web developers’ existence, but that may not be so for much longer. Earlier this month Microsoft announced that they will no longer support IE 8, 9 and 10. IE’s “end of life” means […]
WordCamp San Antonio 2015
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending first ever WordCamp in San Antonio. WordCamp is a casual event where beginners and experts alike can learn, share information, and get to know each other. It was great to see all the attendees eager to learn and to hear the chatter of what they were wanting […]
Edyta Jordan awarded Marketo Certified Expert Certification
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Marketo Certified Expert Certification. Marketo is the #1 marketing automation solution for organizations of any size. Marketo Certification Program provides a highly respected technical marketing credential for email marketing practitioners and partners demonstrating knowledge, ability, and experience. If you need help with Marketing Automation […]
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Built with Bootstrap
Millions of amazing sites across the web are being built with Bootstrap. If you’d like to see some of the most beautiful and inspiring uses of this amazing front-end development framework, explore the Bootstrap Expo.
Bootstrap – a marvelous Front-end framework
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive and mobile first projects on the web. It is a truly marvelous framework. With an upcoming release of Bootstrap 4 around the corner, I would like to share 5 reasons why I use it for my web projects: Speed of development and easiness to […]