WordPress + Twitter Bootstrap

Recently, I made my first custom WordPress site with the help of Twitter Bootstrap. The use of these two elements made my experience extremely positive. The only issue I ran into was when I switched between the visual and text editors in WordPress (and compatibility with Internet Explorer of course). Every time I would switch to the visual editor from the text editor, WordPress would reformat all my HTML. This made things aggravating  and I found out that this was a common problem. So common in fact that WordPress has created a way to remove the visual editor completely so there will be no  surprising/irritating mishaps. You can do this by going to Users > Your Profile > Visual Editor. You will check the “Disable the visual editor when writing” then hit “Update Profile” at the bottom of the webpage. If you do have a reformatting mishap then all you have to do is stay calm and hit the “Screen Options” button at the top-right of your WordPress page  then check “Revisions”. All the recent updates to the page you are working on will appear at the bottom of your page and you just pick the update that you want your page to go back to. After I got past this issue everything was smooth sailing. All the elements of the site seemed to fall into place nicely and the ease of use was great. All the Plugin options make it extremely easy to add in contact forms, RSS feeds, etc.

The website I created is a retail site that sells cute and comfortable baby clothing. You can check it out here: http://bugsduds.com

Exciting, New Pass Times

My constant strive to make every website I create responsive is always getting more innovative and exciting. I have recently begun learning Twitter Bootstrap and I think it is pretty much amazing. The ease of use and all the preprogrammed CSS is like starting a test that already has all the right answers filled in. All I have to provide to Twitter Bootstrap is the idea, the content, and a dash of customization and then bam it’s not only done but it’s responsive. Another program that I am excited for is Edge Reflow. Adobe recently released the preview version of Edge Reflow to the public and just the little bit I have been able to play around with has me excited for the future of this program. It makes designing a responsive website quite easy but I am a little worried about the lack of my security blanket, aka HTML and CSS code, so hopefully it will be included in the future versions. These programs are making the future look very bright and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

Twitter Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Adobe Edge Reflow: http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/