How to Reduce HTTP Requests in WordPress (Make Your Website Faster!)

February 26, 2018design tips
Learning how to reduce HTTP requests in WordPress sounds like a thing only developers need to deal with. However, in reality it concerns anyone who has a website powered by the CMS. Here on Torque, we have written extensively on how to speed up your WordPress website: A Guide to WordPress Speed &  the Importance …
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Let’s Build a Custom Vue Router

February 26, 2018design tips

Plenty of tutorials exist that do a great job in explaining how Vue’s official routing library, vue-router, can be integrated into an existing Vue application. vue-router does a fantastic job by providing us with the items needed to map an application’s components to different browser URL routes.

But, simple applications often don’t need a fully fledged routing library like vue-router. In this article, we’ll build a simple custom client-side router with Vue. By doing so, we’ll gather an …

Let’s Build a Custom Vue Router is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Matt Cromwell Hosts Matt Mullenweg in Q&A Gutenberg Interview

February 25, 2018design tips
Matt Cromwell, Head of Support and Community Outreach for GiveWP and an administrator for the Advanced WordPress Facebook group, hosted a question and answer session about Gutenberg with Matt Mullenweg earlier today. The interview concludes the Advanced WordPress Gutenberg interview series that includes, Joost de Valk, Ahmad Awais, and Tammie Lister. (more…)
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AMP News

February 25, 2018design tips

AMP is controversial, to say the least. Dave and I did a show on it about a year ago that to me felt fairly balanced in addressing some of the issues. Let’s cover some recent news and responses.

One thing that isn’t usually controversial: it’s fast. AMP pages are damn performant. Even that, though, is contentious. Ferdy Christant notes:

Technically correct AMP pages will perform very similar to any non-horrible web page.

The difference between AMP performing instantly and …

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Make Your Articles Heard with Amazon Polly: Q & A with AWS

February 25, 2018design tips
You have a dedicated audience that comes to your site every day to read your content. They take the time to sit down and engage with what you’ve written. Unfortunately, that’s not possible for everyone. People are incredibly busy and aren’t taking the time to sit down and read an article. Users are listening to …
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The Beginner’s Guide to Translating a WordPress Website With Polylang

February 25, 2018design tips
If your client serves a non-English speaking audience, you may need to produce a website that works in multiple languages. Given that implementing multiple languages means a potential wealth of new custom, don’t let the fear of tackling a multilingual website stop you from working with these types of clients. While handling multiple languages increases …
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Working Towards Better Naming

February 25, 2018design tips

There is a quote that I bet every one of you has heard many times. You know the one. The one that reminds you how hard naming is.

Let’s talk names.

We talk often about how hard naming is, but it’s less common see people talk about how to get better at it. Even naming philosophies lend structure to naming, but don’t pick names for you. Names are more than just some hard thing we get needlessly caught up in. …

Working Towards Better Naming is a post from CSS-Tricks

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13 Best Ways to Learn CSS Grid

February 25, 2018design tips
CSS Grid an increasingly popular method for creating complex responsive web design layouts that render more consistently across browsers. Now is the time to familiarize yourself with CSS Grid, so we’ve collected 13 of the best ways to get started learning today. Rather than old-school methods such as tables or the box model, CSS Grid […]
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Wix Code Review: Building Web Apps With Ease

February 25, 2018design tips
One of the common problems most front-end web designers face is building the back-end of website projects. Usually, designers have to team up with web developers to work on projects such as web apps and eCommerce platforms. What if there was a way to easily design both the front-end and back-ends of websites such as […]
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