Author: Tracy Rotton

Seriously, Sass, where have you been all my life? Or, more truthfully, why did I not appreciate you before now? In this world where web developers might like to say “we only support the latest browsers,” the truth of the matter is we’re constantly making tweaks and fixes to support browsers that, well, haven’t quite…

So, I’ve already posted a bit about how CSS preprocessors (namely, Sass) can save you gobs of time when coding a responsive site. In the week since I posted that, I’ve discovered even more tips and tricks that make preprocessors an almost necessary part of your responsive development portfolio, and I’ll share those with you…

The following is cross-posted from the RP3 Magnetisms blog, and is presented here in its original form. As you read this, I have no idea where you are. You could be on the train, on your way home, reading this on your smartphone. You could be sitting on your couch, reading this on a tablet…

When you’re building a responsive website, there’s a formula you learn pretty quickly, and apply pretty often: target / context * 100 = percentage

I’m very tired this morning. Why? Because I stayed up to very close to midnight last night to watch what passes for a professional football game these days.  A game that was decided on the last play when the replacement referees blew a call that would have been obvious to my four year old.

I’ve got a new plugin for your WordPress enjoyment: TC Custom Taxonomy Filter. What does it do? Well, you know how in the dashboard you can filter your posts and pages by their category? Yeah, well natively you can’t do that with custom taxonomies. And with custom post types and custom taxonomies quickly becoming a…

It’s official: I just landed my first speaking gig at a WordCamp, and I’m very excited!  I’ll be part of a panel with John Hartley and Gary Bacon discussing Responsive Web Design and how you can use it with WordPress. WordCamp Baltimore will be held on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at the Maryland Science Center…

On April 10, I had the honor of giving a presentation to the monthly WordPress D.C. meetup about responsive design and how it can be used with WordPress. I’ve gathered up a few of the resources mentioned in that talk and placed them here, along with the slides from that presentation.  I’ll be adding more…

It’s been forever since I’ve posted here, due to being busy with a great responsive design project.  However, the project is over now, and now that the holidays are behind us I’m focussing on a lot of the little projects I’ve had on the back burner for awhile. One of those is dealing with something…

Update: Add another article to the fray: Crossing the Chasm Between Design and Code Original: There seems to be a lot of discussion going on about how a “real” web designer also needs to have serious HTML and CSS chops, otherwise they’re just (in the words of one blogger) “drawing pictures.” Some blog posts of note:…