Web Designer Bible

TUTORIAL: How to use Icons Instead of Text in Your WordPress Menu with Font Awesome

Use Icons Instead of Text in Your WordPress Menu with Font Awesome : First, if you don’t already know about Font Awesome, you should really check it out. It makes it super simple to use great icons on your site that scale to whatever size you need. I did a quick post about using a plugin to use them a while ago.

The main gist of it is that you need to add some code to your functions.php file.…

#Trump looking to officially #ban #Huawei and #ZTE products: report

Trump looking to officially ban Huawei and ZTE products: report: The White House is considering an executive order that would ban American wireless carriers from buying equipment from Chinese companies, according to a new report from Reuters. Such an order would primarily impact Huawei and ZTE — both Chinese companies, and two of the largest manufacturers of telecom equipment — and have a…

#Facebooks launches new #Dating Feature which could Crush Apps Like #Tinder

Facebooks launches new Dating Feature which could Crush Apps Like Tinder: At F8, FACEBOOK’S annual developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced a new dating service, simply called “Dating,” that will exist right within the social network’s own app. It will allow Facebook users to create separate profiles from their main Facebook accounts to pursue romantic connections. The two profiles won’t…

#ERROR for site owner: Stoken disabled in #reCAPTCHA field for #GravityForms

ERROR for site owner: Stoken disabled in reCAPTCHA field for Gravity Forms or Error for site owner: Stoken expired Receiving this message when trying to submit a form? When it comes to safe guarding your forms from spammers then recaptcha is a must have! Specially if you get a lot of traffic on your site.

You may have noticed that some people may have been getting this message. So now if you are…

These are the Web Designer’s Top 10 Favourite Atom Tips

These are the Web Designer’s Top 10 Favourite Atom Tips : Atom has become an extremely well known source code editor that was released by GitHub, back in 2014. It is so useful in its functionality because the framework enables cross-platform application.

The number of users continues to grow and the open source software supports well over a million users every single month and has been downloaded…

#Snapchat Hack — Hacker #Leaked Snapchat Source Code On #GitHub

Snapchat Hack — Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub : The source code of the popular social media app Snapchat was recently surfaced online after a hacker leaked and posted it on the Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub.

A GitHub account under the name Khaled Alshehri with the handle i5xx, who claimed to be from Pakistan, created a GitHub repository called Source-Snapchat with a…

#Microsoft sinks a #data center off the #Scottish coast #Development

Microsoft sinks a data center off the Scottish coast : Microsoft has placed a data center in the Scottish sea to determine whether it can save energy by cooling it in the sea. Data centers typically generate a lot of heat, and big providers try to move them to cooler countries to save on energy bills. Microsoft has been experimenting with subsea data centers for around five years, and previously…

#Howto export your saved passwords from #Google #Chrome

How to export your saved passwords from Google Chrome : If you’re a Chrome user, you may well have taken advantage of the password saving feature of the browser to make it easier to log into your various online accounts. However, it’s not a perfect solution, and you may well have been considering one of the various password management tools that exist instead.

Until now, it has not been possible…

#Google just got hit with a #huge $5bn #Android #fine from EU

Google just got hit with a huge $5bn Android fine from EU: The European Commission has fined Google $5 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Since 2011, Google has imposed illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to cement its dominant position in general internet search.

Google must now bring the conduct effectively to an end within 90 days or face…

#Facebook broke #data #law and faces £500,000 fine over Cambridge #Analytica #scandal

Facebook broke data law and faces £500,000 fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal : The UK’s data protection watchdog found the social media giant guilty of two breaches of the Data Protection Act – failing to safeguard users’ information and failing to be transparent about how people’s data was “harvested” by others. The £500,000 penalty is the maximum punishment available to the Information…

Google just gave a stunning demo of Assistant making an actual phone call

Google just gave a stunning demo of Assistant making an actual phone call : Onstage at I/O 2018, Google showed off a jaw-dropping new capability of Google Assistant: in the not too distant future, it’s going to make phone calls on your behalf. CEO Sundar Pichai played back a phone call recording that he said was placed by the Assistant to a hair salon. The voice sounded incredibly natural; the…

#Samsung unveils world’s largest #SSD with huge 30TB of storage #WebDesignerBible

Samsung unveils world’s largest SSD with huge 30TB of storage : Samsung has unveiled the world’s largest solid state drive — an unassuming-looking bit of kit that boasts a whopping 30.72 terabytes of storage. It’s the most storage ever crammed into the 2.5-inch form factor, and is designed for enterprise customers looking to move away from the mechanical parts of your standard disk-based hard…

#HowTo add a separator between menu items in a wp_nav_menu() the easy way #wordpress #wpnav

How to add a separator between menu items in a wp_nav_menu() the easy way : WordPress wp_nav_menu() function has lots of useful arguments for customizing your menu. These are the arguments you can currently use: '', 'menu_class' => '', 'menu_id' => '', 'container' => '', 'container_class' => '', 'container_id' => '', 'fallback_cb' => '', 'before' => '', 'after' => '', 'link_before' => '',…

The Ultimate Collection of #Free #Typography #Resources for UX Designers #WebDesignerBible #UX

The Ultimate Collection of Free Typography Resources for UX Designers : It was infamous typeface designer Eric Gill who opined in 1931 that “we are concerned with typography in England.” Fast forward 80 years and everybody is concerned with typography, everywhere. That’s why the Justinmind UXers came up with this list of top font and typography resources. Typography in design: A quick run-down…

A #letter we've seen millions of times, yet can't write #Font #GraphicDesign #WebDesignerBible

A letter we’ve seen millions of times, yet can’t write : Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter “g,” Johns Hopkins researchers have found. Most people don’t even know that two forms of the letter — one usually handwritten,…

It's much worse: #Facebook says almost every profile has had its data scraped by a third party #TalkAboutSellingData

It’s much worse: Facebook says almost every profile has had its data scraped by a third party : Facebook said Wednesday that it believes most of its users who had a specific search function enabled have had their profile data scraped by third parties. “We’ve seen some scraping,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters. “I would assume if you had that setting turned on that someone at…

#StackOverflow #2018 Survey results are out! Find out about the Most #loved vs Most #hated #Web #Trends

StackOverflow 2018 Survey results are out! Most loved vs Most hated : Each year, StackOverflow asks the developer community about everything from their favorite technologies to their job preferences. This year marks the eighth year they’ve published the Annual Developer Survey results—with the largest number of respondents yet. Over 100,000 developers took the 30-minute survey this past January.…