Hello, my name is Todd Wilson and this is my personal blog where I share my experiences and insights.
A few months ago, I stumbled across an excellent video series on Gatsby & WordPress, by Jack Pritchard. This allowed me to follow along each section of the series as I progressed through the initial setup with WordPress. Initially, I installed a WordPress instance locally using the Trellis bedrock project which uses composer to gather […]
When starting on a new concept or project, I normally first start by considering how the data will be structured. There are many solutions to building out data resources and APIs and in working across multiple teams, you normally have to start the conceptual process without having to wait for those endpoints to be provisioned. […]
Layout builders have come a long way over the years and they continue to evolve across content management systems and WordPress. I do manage a few sites that are using outdated layout builders and I suspect a lot of other “legacy” layout builders are catching up to this change with Gutenberg-style block layouts. I came […]
When I started learning about web design, I recall having a Geocities page that allowed me to explore page layouts and graphic design. Animated gifs mixed with tiled backgrounds was something worth sharing with your friends.
There’s been a frequent pattern that I’ve come across in maintaining local project dependencies across a team. Changing npm contexts can be taxing and when the complexity of maintaining node packages and configuration continues to get in the way of development workflow.
What are web components? Web components are based on four specifications: Custom Elements Shadow DOM ES Modules HTML Template Browser support has been increasing over the years and has risen to over 85% and those browsers that implement native custom elements also support ES6. For those browsers that do not support it, you can simply […]
I found a few patterns in front-end development that are extremely useful to have around in the form of a “starter” layouts or templates. Similarly, I’ve found common libraries like Bootstrap with WordPress layout builders to also be quite effective in building out site designs. Here are two customizable front-end frameworks that I’ve been working […]
Not long ago, I was noticing that some browsers were starting to enable the dark mode browsing through themes and extensions. Chrome recently released a “Dark Reader” extension and with the recent Mojave update in Mac OS, you get a system wide dark mode and this certainly will help alleviate the strain on the eyes […]
Over the years of developing various types of sites, I’ve noticed that the majority of content remains rather static with very few edits over time. I also notice that most blog pages will remain untouched and with no real effort to publish content that attracts new customers.
The front end web design landscape is evolving at such a fast pace and learning new frameworks is a selective process for me. This becomes a highly selective process as we only have a limited time to apply these new design trends and adopting new frameworks as we learn.
Learning Nuxt.js I’ve been working with Vue.js as I continue to learn more about modern JavaScript and front end development. I normally try to explore various implementations of frameworks with a quick demo and with the latest Vue CLI tool, this becomes even easier to do.
