Category Archives: Coding

Using your mac terminal 101

As a web-developer, utilising your terminal becomes crucial as you do the following: Manipulating the terminal is a very useful skill that will serve you well in the long term as a developer. Let’s learn some basics: Final Thoughts: Being … Continue reading

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Texas Beyond History Workflow

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Setting Up a New Exhibit in Canvasser

Step 1 Get the map/image (and any other relevant assets) from your client. Note: If the elements that are meant to be interactive are not yet highlighted, make sure you clear that out with the client. Step 2 Using the … Continue reading

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Installing Grav Locally

Before starting this training, please make sure you’ve already installed MAMP: [tutorial here] Grav is an open source CMS focused on speed and simplicity. Unlike most other platforms like WordPress, Grav does not rely on a database. Instead, it uses … Continue reading

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HTML/CSS | How to Create CSS Flip Cards in CLIO

CSS flip cards are a great way to dynamically display Q/A or vocabulary-baed content. You can even add audio and images to your cards, depending on the content from the client. In this training, you’ll learn how to: Create animated … Continue reading

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Web Design | Web Accessibility Standards

Awareness and understanding of disability has certainly deepened in recent years but there is still a great deal of work to be done. Disabilities span the realms of physical, mental, cognitive, and developmental, just to name a few. People with … Continue reading

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How to use script to convert Hebrew text

This tutorial will cover how to run a bash script that will convert all .txt files in a directory from broken Hebrew text to readable Hebrew text. We assume that you’ve already extracted the text and images from the SWF … Continue reading

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How to extract text and images from a Flash module

This tutorial will explain how to take a Flash file (.swf, Small Web Format) and extract its text and images. Required Installations: JDK 8 Since our decompiling program, FFdec is relatively old (last updated in 2018), it only lets us … Continue reading

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Web Accessibility Checklist

Making work accessible creates a better experience across the board. Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project. http://accessibility.voxmedia.com/

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Mobile Responsive images + SVG files

So the biggest thing these days is responsive design and making your site completely mobile ready out of the box, as opposed to going back and making everything responsive after the site is done, or making a whole new mobile … Continue reading

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Fixing Responsive Design

Add CSS @ Genesis ->  Simple Custom CSS I recommend using Firefox, downloading the “Web Developer” Add-On to see responsive sizes quickly and all at once. (After installing and going to your page, Right click -> Web Developer ->  Resize … Continue reading

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Google Sites

sites.google.com I’m unsure of if there is an import/export feature (I don’t think there is), so I recommend getting the client to sign in to Google and follow the instructions to create a new site and set permissions. This way, … Continue reading

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