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WordPress – Moving wordpress installation to subfolder

April 13, 2022 dradma 0 Comments wordpress

After installing wordpress into home directory (ie public_html ) I realised it is not as clean as one would want

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Programming Web-tech - html/css/js 

CSS – Responsive design basics

January 25, 2022May 26, 2022 dradma 0 Comments css, responsive design, break points

Core principles to follow for web page layout: Appropriate break points for the most popular devices…phones, tablets/laptops & PCs are: Smart phone < 768px < Tablet < 1023px < Desktop Example: @media only screen and (max-width: 768px){ /* CSS rules to apply to smart phones goes here */ }

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jQuery – list all class names

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 dradma 0 Comments css, javascript

While overhauling a site, I ended up with many obsolete rules in classes that are no longer applied. To help clean up the CSS stylesheet I wanted to list all class names so I could do a comparison. This answer from stackoverflow did 90% of what I needed

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Programming Git & github 

.gitignore for wordpress development

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 dradma 0 Comments wordpress, git, .gitignore

Without a correctly set .gitignore file during site development using wordpress, thousands of files are unnecessarily tracked. WordPress and wordpress

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Programming Git & github 

GitKraken .gitignore template for wordpress

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 dradma 0 Comments git

GitKraken’s .gitignore wordpress template is a good basis to start with… I make a few modifications to this which I

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General Web-tech - html/css/js 

CSS – Keep footer on bottom of page

December 23, 2021June 7, 2022 dradma 0 Comments layout, footer, HTML, css

Simple steps to ensure the footer remains at the bottom of the page. These are: set body tag to min-height:100vh with padding-bottom to the height of the footer and set footer to position:absolute, bottom:0px

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Programming PowerShell 

Powershell – Create Year/Month folder structure

November 30, 2021December 7, 2021 Dale Anderson 0 Comments powershell

Creates multiple folders in specified location for a list of specified years and inserts sub-folders for each month in each year folder.
Scenario: Maintaining dated documents such as photos or receipts. This script quickly creates a suitable folder structure for the years required.

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Programming VBA - Excel 

VBA – Excel – Determine and set data range

November 4, 2021May 2, 2022 dradma 0 Comments excel, VBA

Use: Function LastRowInt(InWS As Worksheet) As Integer LastRowInt = InWS.UsedRange.Find(What:=”*”, After:=InWS.Cells(1, 1), Lookat:=xlPart, LookIn:=xlFormulas, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, MatchCase:=False).Row End Function Public

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R for Statistics Programming 

Importing Excel file – R for Statistics

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021 dradma 0 Comments import, r, data, excel

Reading data directly from excel file rather than saving in csv file format.

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Programming Web-tech - html/css/js 

CSS – Responsive design details

February 3, 2020February 4, 2020 dradma 0 Comments css, units, responsive design, layout

This site: https://www.designersinsights.com/designer-resources/designing-responsive-website/ Recommends these breakpoints… Using Hardware Pixels to Design a Responsive Website When designing a responsive website, we

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