Andy Vaughn

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Chess Puzzles

Chess Puzzles is a website that I designed and strategically programmed for John Bain two and a half years ago. It’s still going strong, with over ten-thousand visitors monthly playing and participating in the daily puzzles. The website was built using WordPress as a CMS, and the chess tactic engine was programmed using a custom […]

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Single-line CSS

This is somewhat of a personal post. “Personal” in the sense that the information is very subjective and not objective. However, I will try and persuade you of my opinion. “CSS declarations should be written on a single line.” — me p {font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; margin: 0 0 1.5em;} …as opposed to: […]

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Git Started

Using a version control system is helpful for multiple developer environments, as well as individual tracking and archiving of changes. Here’s how I set mine up using Git. Note: Setting up a cloned repository between dev and live servers is useful for theme and static file tracking. You wouldn’t want to setup Git on an […]

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