Raena Jackson Armitage

Raena Jackson Armitage

Raena Jackson Armitage is an Australian web developer with a background in content management, public speaking, and training. When she is not thinking about the Web, she loves knitting, gaming, all-day breakfasts, and cycling.

Raena Jackson Armitage

mobile_first
Raena Jackson Armitage has been thinking about mobile users and responsive web design, and has found an approach that is "head-smackingly simple". Read More
 
roots
Raena's found another wicked WordPress framework. Let her show you the finer points of Roots.Read More
 
wp_sandbox
If you’re planning to break into the world of WordPress development, it makes sense to set up a dedicated development environment — and one of the best ways to do it is with a virtual machine.... Read More
 
wwp_feature
In WordPress, as in life, reinventing the wheel is for suckers. If you're going to create a theme, build it on a framework. Raena Jackson Armitage provides the guidelines you need. Read More
 
You love JSON. It's clean, efficient, and easy to work with. But when dealing with data from blogs or news sources, you'll most likely have to deal with RSS. In this quick tutorial, Raena shows you... Read More
 
 
panels-plus-viewport
Horizontally scrolling websites are definitely the exception in web design, but sometimes that's what your site needs: to stand out from the crowd. Raena shows you how you can easily combine some... Read More
 
mobile
The technique of responsive web design using CSS media queries has been attracting a lot of attention lately. But as with any technique, it has a time and a place, and sometimes other tools are... Read More
 
gallery
In this tutorial, Raena shows you how to make a gorgeous image gallery in the true spirit of progressive enhancement: CSS3 transforms for cutting-edge browsers, jQuery for the rest, and it even looks... Read More
 
Raena, co-author of SitePoint's Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes, shows how to boost your theme development efforts using the Thematic theme framework. It will save you heaps of tedious setup... Read More
 
In recent years, WordPress theme frameworks have arrived on the scene in a big way. From commercial frameworks like Thesis and Genesis to free alternatives such as Thematic and Hybrid, frameworks aim... Read More
No one wants to be left behind in this industry. Raena examines three major topics that you absolutely must get to know in 2010 -- or risk being left behind by your colleagues!Read More
Microsoft Expression Web 3 has some unique features that make it invaluable to web developers. In this article, Raena puts the web development tool through its paces and cranks out a simple PHP page.... Read More
Is Dmitry Baranovskiy's critique of Closure valid, or just nitpicking? Did you know the SitePoint podcast is one year old? What are some of the burning questions our forum members have been asking... Read More
Raena caught up with Simon Pascal Klein—designer, speaker and self-confessed rampant typophile—to talk about his upcoming appearance at Edge of the Web 2009.Read More