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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Get crisper, smaller web graphics with SVG. Learn three different methods to implement SVG web icons on websites and in WordPress themes.
As designers and developers of the web, we want graphics to look sharp, but we need to keep file sizes down for performance. How do you get the best of both worlds? There is pretty much only one way to go: SVG. SVG is an XML-based method for instructing the browser to draw scalable vector graphics based on defined...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Get a practice-based introduction to writing your own code in JavaScript, testing out your new skills as you go in a collaborative and interactive learning environment.
Are you brand-new to coding in JavaScript? Or are you just looking to learn a little bit more? Sometimes, when you learn a new framework, you need to jump right in and get things done. Join LinkedIn Learning senior instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen as he shows you what it takes to...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Gatsby, the modern JavaScript framework that builds on React and connects to WordPress and other GraphQL sources.
Gatsby offers React and WordPress developers a more comprehensive approach to web application development, complete with thorough concerns for accessibility support. Gatsby's GraphQL foundations let it extract information from a variety of data sources. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how Gatsby...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Get concrete approaches for evaluating and acting on the ethical questions technologists encounter constantly.
Many of the technology courses in our library focus on how to make things. But sometimes, designers and developers need to pause, look around, and evaluate how the things they make affect the people who'll end up using them. "What's best for our users?" can be a difficult question when mixed with other organizational priorities. In this...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to integrate the OpenAI API into a JavaScript-based web app. Topics
In this course, learn how to integrate the OpenAI API into a JavaScript-based web app. Join instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen as he takes a React-based weather app, adds a heavy dose of AI, and creates an interactive experience that knows what location you want weather information from, explains the weather data in simple language, and even suggests what to wear. Through...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to administer a WordPress website. Find out how to adjust settings, add users, customize menus and themes, install plugins, and more.
WordPress is an easy way to get a website up and running, but sometimes you want to take a WordPress site further. This course shows how to administer a self-hosted WordPress site. Learn how to work with the settings, including important privacy settings, and configure your site's style, menus, widgets, and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Large stylesheets can easily become formidably difficult to deal with. Learn how to refactor stylesheets so you can successfully control the layouts of many web pages at once.
As sites and apps grow ever more intricate, stylesheets frequently grow by gradual accumulation—things get added and things get adjusted, resulting in stylesheets becoming unnecessarily complicated. Refactoring CSS is different from refactoring typical programming languages,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how using JavaScript to control CSS opens the door to more interactive designs and user experiences.
JavaScript has full access to the markup of a web page (DOM) and the styles of a page (CSSOM). Using JavaScript to interact with and manipulate the DOM is common practice, but using JavaScript to interact with CSS is rarely explored past the shallow layers of manipulating classes and injecting inline styles. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use the CSS Flexible Box Layout module (aka Flexbox) to create advanced responsive layouts.
The CSS Flexible Box Layout module (aka Flexbox) provides a simple solution to many of the design and layout problems web designers and developers have faced since the advent of CSS. Now that the module is becoming ready for the main stage, it's time to look at what we can do with it. This course shows how to use flexible boxes to create advanced...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Review the core concepts of the CSS box model, including techniques such as styling text and images, floating content, using display properties, and positioning elements.
Based on old-school typography blocks, the CSS box model is the key to modern web design. Once you master it, you can build any layout you want—and troubleshoot most of the common CSS alignment and positioning woes. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen offers a "four course...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Get expert answers to several frequently asked questions about WordPress. Learn about WordPress security and plugins, how to choose a WordPress host, and more.
Got WordPress questions? Here are some answers. In this short course, instructor Morten-Rand Hendriksen answers several frequently asked questions about WordPress. Get practical insights on WordPress security and plugins, advice on choosing a WordPress host, and more. Help us innovate! This...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Take a deep dive into the world of JavaScript build tools to learn why we use them, why there are so many, how they differ, and how to pick a tool for whatever you’re working on.
While you still can just create JavaScript files and include them with your HTML, more and more projects use JavaScript build tools as a matter of course—what was once advanced and obscure is now ordinary and necessary. Using build tools requires two major adaptations,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Find out how well you know CSS Layout techniques, and maybe learn more along the way!
This course with Morten Rand-Hendriksen tests your knowledge with 15 CSS layout challenges exploring the opportunities and intricacies presented by modern CSS layout modules. Challenges range in scope from component-level layouts like horizontal menus to sitewide layouts and responsive layouts across multiple viewport widths. If you want to see how your skills stack...
14) Git from Scratch
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use version control in Git, starting from scratch.
Version control—the practice of tracking and managing changes to software code—is one of the most powerful tools a developer can wield. And Git has become the version control system of choice for the modern web. The concepts of Git are not hard to understand, especially for developers, but Git has a language of its own. What is rebasing? What is a detached head? In this beginner-level...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn practical strategies and get hands-on practice on how to leverage AI tools to increase productivity and write better code.
If you’re a programmer, you’re probably curious (and maybe a little apprehensive) about what artificial intelligence can do for your work. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how you can supercharge your software development with the help of an AI pair programmer. Morten shares practical strategies and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to fine-tune GPT by submitting your own data for improved steerability, more reliable output formatting, and a more customized experience.
Fine-tuning your own GPT model allows you to submit examples of the types of responses the AI system should provide based on user input. It allows you to more tightly control the output from the AI system, including setting voice and tone, controlling output format, following patterns, and adding preset...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Get a quick guide to function calling, a key aspect of using OpenAI tools.
Prompting is great, but sometimes you need a more programmatic approach. That’s where function calling comes in. In this course, senior staff instructor, web designer, and software developer Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains function calling with the OpenAI API.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Create your own playground for WordPress experimentation. Learn how to set up a local WordPress development environment on Windows and Mac using Local by FlyWheel.
Whether you’re just learning to use WordPress or busy developing new WordPress websites and themes, having a local version is essential. Installing WordPress on your computer gives you full control for experimentation, development, and testing. You see the changes you make immediately—no...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn effective search skills such as identifying reliable sources, learning where and how to find information, and participating in online communities.
Effective search skills are often a key part of programming talent. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen highlights several search techniques that you, as a web developer, need to know. Morten begins by explaining where to find reliable information. He goes over several possibilities,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explore ten essential security insights that you need to build applications that protect both the application and the user.
Security is an essential component of application and web development, yet it is easy to overlook in the rush to make things work and work well. How can you bake security into your development processes? In this short course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen examines ten security insights that every developer needs to build...
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