Development

As a blogger today, I wanted to redirect URLs that point to a subdirectory to an external destination. In the blog post ‘Using Hugo as a redirect service’ by Daniel Terhorst-North I came across a very lean solution. To achieve this, the following file must be created in the theme folder: /layouts/redirect/single.html. The following source code must be added to the file: {{- template "_internal/alias.html" (dict "Permalink" .Params.target) -}} You can now create a file and define the redirect with the following four lines. The filename also determines the directory of the source URL: ...

Modern Font Stacks lists system fonts for modern operating systems. A practical overview if you’re designing your next web project. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Since around mid-2012, Twitter has supported Twitter Cards. Twitter Cards are meant to give Twitter users a preview of posted links. You can present video, images, or text snippets as a preview. The following code lets WordPress users optimize their theme for Twitter Cards. First, add the following code to the function.php of your WordPress theme; once you’ve done that, you still need to apply for Cards with Twitter registrieren. ...

CSS3 Filters: Altering HTML and Images with just CSS → CSS3 Filters are a quite interesting offshoot from SVG, allowing you to modify HTML elements and images with blurs, brightness and a lot more. In this quick tutorial we’ll go over exactly how they’re going to work. Black-and-white and blur filters should definitely be added to the HTML5 standard. They would make it possible to create some really great effects. ...

If you want a readable, attractive font that’s supported by many systems on your website, you should go with Helvetica. Here’s a very good code snippet. body { font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-weight: 300; } The code was published by Chris Coyier on 10. August 2009. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.