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All the Resources-related tutorials, ideas and various posts in Stampede Constructs

Woo Commerce
April 29, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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A Beginner’s Guide to Using WooCommerce

Thinking about taking your WordPress site to the retail level? WooCommerce has a plugin for that which enables you to open an online store in your existing website.

WooCommerce is currently powering over 37% of all online shops, with over 1 million active downloads, and a stellar 4.6 star rating. This freemium WordPress plugin has everything you need to create, manage, measure, and maintain an online store with ease.

WooCommerce has become one of the most popular plugins to extend WordPress into an online store. Setting up an online store has never been easier.

Let’s get to business

HTML Glossary You Need to Know
April 22, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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HTML Glossary You Need to Know

HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the structure of a website. It is as much as a skeleton to a human, it is for a website. All developers should at least know what HTML stands for, all the terms and jargon. Today, the team would like to share two links that we always refer to when we are refreshing our HTML Glossary & Terms.
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April 19, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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15 Interesting JS & CSS Libraries

There is nothing wrong about using ready-made libraries, especially if it helps with productivity. We’ve come across this list that provides resources for CSS & Javascript libraries.

We went through the list one-by-one since everything looked interesting. Particularly, this one caught out eye: Stylefmt. It is very handy as it can easily format your stylesheet! This is especially so, when you have multiple stylesheets and can be a lifesaver at times.

We also noticed these two libraries that caught our attention as well, TypeIt & StickerJs .

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Free FTP Clients
April 13, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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The 5 Best Free FTP Clients

An FTP client is an important piece of software that allows developers to transfer files from their local to the web host or server. It can be used to upload and update files on the web server while at the same time being able to back these files to a local server for rollback or archive purposes.

Here are 5 of the best free FTP clients available.

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April 6, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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How to Hack & Personalize Your Firefox Developer Tools Theme

For us developers, staring at the screen for hours is a norm. If there were a way to make things more bearable, it would be to tweak certain colors on your screen to adjust it comfortably for your eyes. By default, the Firefox developer tools have two themes; light and dark. If that does not satisfy you, now you can personalize it according to your tastes. Firefox uses a combination of XUL and CSS for its UI, which means most of its appearance can be tweaked using just CSS. This gives freedom to developers to tweak how certain syntax appears on-screen allowing a greater degree of customization for the developer.

How do I customize my UI?

April 4, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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10 Free CSS Hamburger Menu Animations

The hamburger symbol consists of three parallel horizontal lines placed on top of one another (resembling a hamburger). It is popularly used as a menu access button in graphical user interfaces and is often displayed in the top left or top right corner of the screen.

Here is a collection of 10 hamburger menu animations made with pure CSS. It includes full SASS files and comes with accessibility support.

Get some hamburgers

March 31, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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Foundation 6.2 vs Bootstrap 4 (A Framework Comparison)

Foundation and Bootstrap are the most popular CSS frameworks nowadays. Both have recently released new versions; Foundation with 6.2 and Bootstrap with 4 (Alpha). The frameworks have a new Grid system using flexbox that can be enabled or disabled at your choice.

A good question between these two frameworks is ‘which one should we use’? It really boils down to what type of project you are working on and how much you enjoy working with each respective framework.

What’s the difference?

March 30, 2016   |   Less than a minute reading time
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Foundation for Emails 2

Ink (also called Foundation for Emails) is a HTML email development framework that is built around the best email practices. In the era of smartphones, people are frequently checking their emails on their mobile devices and that means the need for a responsive approach to emails.

Enter Foundation for Emails 2, Ink’s successor. This upgraded framework is mobile-ready and allows developers to quickly create responsive emails that work (even on problematic email software like Outlook).  Developed in 2015, this new version focuses on quicker layouts, colors and styles. Foundation for Emails 2 borrows many components, best practices, and workflows from Foundation for Sites. Foundation developers new to HTML emails will feel right at home with this..

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