The Developer Notes are divided into the webpages listed below. Like this page, each page opens in new browser tab so you can keep a page open for reference while you are working in WordPress. In general, closing each tab as you finish with it is a good practice, but you may want to keep this tab open to serve as the menu for the rest of notes.
Table of Contents
These pages are crudely divided into categories for different kinds of readers. There is much overlap and many pages opt to keep a topic together rather than write for a specific audience. If you are interested only in high-level design, just skim or skip the implementation details.
High-Level Design
- Best Practices in Web Design gives guidelines for organizing information for online delivery.
- Writing for Websites is about adopting a writing style suitable for websites.
- Tips for Web Builders provides guidelines for building robust websites.
- Implementation Strategy explains the approaches followed to build the LLIR website.
Guides for Content Authors, Reviewers and Testers
- About Colours and Styles describes the colour palette and the styles you can apply to page components.
- Learning the Page Editor is an introduction to key concepts of the page editor.
- Page Editor Hints provides time-saving tips for webpage authors.
- Testing and Reviewing talks about incremental testing, testing after major revisions and performing regular reviews.
Training for New Web Masters
- Administering the LLIR Website contains some important notes for the Web Master.
- Security Matters gathers topics related to security into one place.
- How to Instructions is a landing page for How To instructions on using Kadence and relatively advanced WordPress topics.
- About Forms and Website Architecture explains how menuitems and in-page links open forms.
- About Conditional Elements describes some specialized features of the website.
- Tutorials and Other Resources is a set of links to introductory help about using WordPress and Kadence
Accessing these Developer Notes
All members of LLIR can open these notes if they know the Universal Resource Locator (URL) or web address of this page. You can give the URL to appropriate members such as the Board and volunteers working on the website. They can then open the notes by:
___1. Logging into the website
___2. Typing the URL llirto.ca/developer-notes into the browser location bar.
Accessing these Notes from the LLIR Website
For the convenience of website administrators, a link to these notes appears in a brown bar above the footer on the Member Home page only when an administrator is logged in using a desktop or laptop computer. The link never appears on mobile devices. The mechanism that contains link is a conditional element with name Developer Notes.