‘CSS’ Videos
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Lisa Yoder: How to Tweak Your Site Without Breaking It: Custom CSS and Intro to Child Theming
WordCamp Philly 2014Speaker: Lisa YoderAugust 21, 2014 — Ever wonder how to make that column just a little bit wider or change a font? Are you totally overwhelmed by files upon files of PHP? There are some simple and effective ways to tweak the design of a site without breaking anything. We cover ways to add custom CSS and the whys and hows of a basic child theme.
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Rhys Wynne: How to Get Your First Child Theme Off the Ground
WordCamp Manchester 2014Speaker: Rhys WynneAugust 20, 2014 — Rhys does an introductory beginner talk on Child Themes, which involves the following:
– What is a child theme?
– When you should use a child theme?
– When you shouldn’t use a child theme?
– Structuring a child theme in your themes folder & common practices.
– The style.css file of a child theme, how to structure it.
– The functions.php file of the child theme.
– Common Issues that beginners ask about. -
Zack Tollman: Speed as a Feature – Getting a Handle on Page Load Time
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Zack TollmanAugust 18, 2014 — Understanding why your page is rendering slowly is the first step to improving your page load speed. The faster your pages load, the better the site will convert and the happier your clients will be!
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Zack Tollman: Speed as a Feature – Getting a Handle on Page Load Time
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Zack TollmanJuly 23, 2014 — Understanding why your page is rendering slowly is the first step to improving your page load speed. The faster your pages load, the better the site will convert and the happier your clients will be!
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Michael Earley: Unleash Your Design Potential with CSS for Beginners
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Michael EarleyJune 16, 2014 — Learning how to write and edit Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can open a whole new realm of possibilities for custom design of a WordPress website. CSS can be simple, but if you haven’t had a proper introduction to the basics, it can seem anything but that. This presentation goes over the basics of CSS and how to implement CSS changes on a WordPress site using Firebug and a basic text editing program. Being able to make simple CSS changes will empower you to make the necessary style changes (such as changing font colors/sizes, background styling, padding etc.) without having to rely user options to do so.
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Charly McCracken: Anatomy Of A WordPress CSS File
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Charly McCrackenMay 13, 2014 — This talk provides an overview of each component of a WordPress sytlesheet and how it outputs in the browser so that you can easily tackle the task of modifying your WordPress stylesheet using CSS.
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Brad Parbs: Getting SASSy: Fun with CSS Preprocessors
WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsOctober 14, 2013 — In this talk learn to write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster.
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Jonathan Calvin: CSS3 and WordPress Themes
WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012Speaker: Jonathan CalvinOctober 13, 2013 — This talk delves into CSS3. What can and should be used progressively, how to use these techniques, and what we can expect in the future from this technology.
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Brad Parbs: Getting SASSy – Fun with CSS Preprocessors
WordCamp Providence 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsAugust 29, 2013 — Write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster. Starting from a beginner’s perspective, this talk allows anyone (designers & developers) to get started with SASS or LESS for their WordPress theming.
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Teresa Rosche Ott: Use LESS, Do More: Getting Started with a CSS Preprocessor
WordCamp Atlanta 2013Speaker: Teresa Rosche OttApril 22, 2013 — LESS & SASS are awesome technologies that allow you to write CSS extremely fast with a ton of awesome features. A perfect intro for anyone who wants to get started writing CSS faster, better, and stronger.
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