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It is a cycle. I was in sales for 16 years. 1996, I met a couple of guys in a bar. They needed someone to do sales for websites. I had never even seen one. I went and had a look, ended up in SEO, then, mid 1997, I decided to do my own e-commerce project (mobile phones). Those days it was still all C programming for backends. Hired a guy to code the site, he got nowhere and lied about it. I decided to do it myself. Tried Coldfusion, then got into ASP, by 1999 I was an MCP and had a good decade building ASP websites up to the financial crash when the contract market crashed. Hated .NET, didn't want to reskill doing that, so I had a rest for a year or so. I had tinkered with WP (my ex had a WP blog from 2004 which I took care of), decided it looked like a good thing to focus on and started doing that instead. Chose Genesis, seemed robustly coded, and it was good to work with, bought the package. So, 12-13 years of WordPress, not been too bad. And I have more than had my money's worth from Studiopress.
I stopped using the premade themes and now I only use Genesis Sample because I dodn't have to fight to remove all the tweaks someone else thought were a good idea. Sample is still being updated and if you want you can do the whole thing blockily (I don't like blocks. I don't like the block editor 🐱🐉).
I think for the future, your run of the mill website will be Wix 🤮, Weebly 🤮, Squarespace, WordPress.com for peanuts. Kids will drag and drop crappy blocks all over the place and most of the web will look like geocities again. My speciality has been websites for authors and I think I can tick along ok doing that. Or maybe become a luthier. 🎸😃
Yes, I love Firefox, I tend to code css in Firefox using EditCSS and then rejig if there are problems in other browsers. I have always tried to avoid browser specific code, even back with IE4/5, you could mostly get things to be pretty consistent without it.
Until today, I didn't even know you could write stuff for FF like that so this has been a good day, I have learned something new, 🙂
Thanks again for your input.
🙂 I only found that by accident, it is tucked away in the developer options menu.
I prefer to fix things with code which will work for everything but I can't work out why FF is different, I have tested the demo theme and that is wrong too.
Thanks, but no, that doesn't work and it changes the layout (makes it wrong) in other browsers.
Nice tool for showing clients responsive views, I just teach them to use Ctrl Shift M like I do.
Tim
There are lots of ways to do this, Automated translations are never great and sometimes awful. You really need to think very hard about what you want to achieve on the final site.
This is a good place to start: http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress