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6 of the Best Cross Browser Testing Tools – In-Depth Comparison

Best Cross Browser Testing Tools

Why care for best cross browser testing tools? Cross browser testing is a process of assessing the functionality of your web application on various browsers before pushing changes to production. In this post, we cover the best cross browser testing tools. We take into account various aspects such as cost considerations and ability to automate the whole process.

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How to Use CSS Media Queries: A Complete Guide for Beginners

how to use CSS media queries

It’s been more than a decade since responsive web design became a household term, and it’s critical that all front-end developers know how to use CSS media queries in 2022. The basic syntax for a CSS media query isn’t difficult to remember, but it’s not as easy to recall all the different media features you have access to when building responsive websites.

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9 Best Themes for Thrive Architect (Full Breakdown)

Best Themes for Thrive Architect

Page builders take away much of the grunt work in building websites, and make it (almost) a fun activity. This is true especially for non-coders. What’s even better is when you have a base theme that’s compatible with your page builder! In today’s post, we round up the best themes for Thrive Architect, a page builder from Thrive Themes.

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What Is the Best Low Code Platform? 7 Options Compared

Best Low Code Platform

With lots of ideas for an app (or web tool), but without the technical expertise required to build one yourself, you’ll want to find the best low-code platform that will be able to handle the heavy lifting for you. We have a collection of the best such solutions here, and we’ll compare them for you in detail.

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Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial: Add a Custom Map to Your Website

Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial

Google Maps helps us every day in navigating our way through roads and finding places in a manner that was unimaginative just a few decades ago. It is not only useful in wayfinding, but we also see many examples of maps used for data visualization, such as how recently many websites are using maps to visualize the spread of COVID-19 throughout the globe. Today, let’s learn how we can use the Google Maps JavaScript API to build custom maps for our websites and applications.

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Micro-Interactions Tutorial for Beginner Developers: How to Create an Interactive “Like” Button With CSS and JavaScript

Micro-Interactions Tutorial for Beginners

I think it’s safe to say that micro-interactions are cool. We – web people – universally all enjoy them. And no matter if you’re noticing them or not, they provide a significant user experience improvement. By making your website or web tool come to life subtly and in a friendly way, they simply make the user enjoy the whole interaction a tiny bit more.

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Here’s How to Retrieve Any Post You Want With WP_Query

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If you’ve built simple themes in the past, chances are the need to retrieve posts on your own didn’t arise. After all, WordPress loads the most recent 10 posts on the main page and the correct posts on archive pages. What about more complex scenarios? What if you would like a sitemap of sorts and you want to list all your posts and pages ordered by date?

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Figma vs Sketch vs Adobe XD: Which Is the Better Design Tool?

Figma vs Sketch vs Adobe XD

Why you should care for Figma vs Sketch vs Adobe XD? There is no denying that in recent years we have seen monumental growth in the availability of UI design tools. When Sketch first came out, it completely changed the course of action for all designers. Just two years after its initial release, Sketch was awarded Apple’s Design Award.

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10 Best Countries to Outsource Software Development (Analysis)

Best Countries to Outsource Software Development

Outsourcing software development can be a great way to save money while still getting high-quality work. However, there are some things you need to know about outsourcing before you can do it effectively. For starters, you need to know what are the best countries to outsource software development to so you can focus your search in an effective way.

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The Evolution of the Default WordPress Themes (2003 to 2019)

Default WordPress Themes

WordPress has been around for more than a decade and a half now, and a lot has changed since the very beginning in 2003. The platform has seen several User Interface (UI) advancements, for example, and is forging ahead into 2021 with the new Block Editor. We’ve also started seeing the rise of mobile responsiveness as a key feature in the default WordPress themes.

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WordPress Development Tutorial: How to Automate Your Workflow

WordPress Development Tutorial on Automation

As a WordPress developer, staying up to date with the recent techniques and trends can be intimidating. Take automation, for example – are you on top of what can be done in terms of automating your workflow? Not quite? Okay, this article can help you with that. It is a bit different from your usual WordPress development tutorial, though. It focuses on automating whatever can be automated when working on your next WordPress project.

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WordPress Theme Design Trends (2003 to 2019)

WordPress Theme Design Trends

When the first version of WordPress was shipped in May 2003, it had groundbreaking design features for the time and defined the first batch of WordPress theme design trends to come. There were highly intelligent line breaks, nice textures, and the ability for bloggers to add links to their blogrolls.

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Build for Gutenberg: How Plugin and Theme Authors Are Addressing the Transition to Gutenberg

Build for Gutenberg: How Plugin and Theme Authors Are Addressing the Transition

At WordCamp Europe 2018, Matt Mullenweg laid out a rough roadmap for Gutenberg over the next several months. In July, there’s going to be a big push to increase Gutenberg adoption, with a 5.0 beta in play for August (or beyond; actually, probably beyond). The impending integration may have you wondering how WordPress developers are planning to build for Gutenberg.

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