It is quite an honor for me to have the opportunity to write the inaugural post for a company that is dedicated to continuous learning in the IT world. And, why is that, you might ask? Well, there are three main reasons.  Firstly, the very concept of continuous learning represents not only a p...
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All websites should start with a good plan. Focussing on the design process first may be common for smaller sites. For larger sites, when user experience is paramount, creating an initial sitemap or user flow map is an effective way of working out how you want visitors to use and navigate around. UX is key to a successful site. And always remember the 5PS of planning a site – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
There are many different methods for creating a sitemap, but we don’t want to get into that today as they are typically not the best thing to look at from a design inspiration perspective.
So we’re going to take a look at sitemaps that have truly taken design into consideration. Not the site design, but the actual design of the sitemap. So no post-its, no Sharpies, no whiteboards, no mind-mapping software, just a beautiful selection of carefully crafted sitemaps.
You may also like to take a look at our inspiring collections of UI style guides or web design wireframe sketches.
If you’re looking for wireframe templates, take a look at this article.
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October has been a busy month with preparations for WordCamp US as well as the next major release of WordPress. Read on to find out about all that work and more.
On October 14, WordPress 5.2.4 was released as a security release fixing 6 security issues. The fixes were backported to earlier versions of WordPress as well, so they’re available for sites not yet upgraded to 5.2.
This kind of release is only possible because people report security issues responsibly so that the Core team can address them. You can find out more specific information about the fixes on the release documentation page.
Want to get involved in building WordPress Core? Follow the Core team blog, and join the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group.
Early in the month, the Design team proposed adding a style guide for the WordPress brand that can be used across all of WordPress.org and anywhere the brand is represented. Work then began on putting the style guide together, and the current iteration is now available for viewing.
Work on this style guide is ongoing, and the latest update allows it to support multiple languages so that it can be used by more people.
Want to get involved in contributing to this style guide? You can do so via the GitHub repo, as well as follow the Design team blog, and join the #design channel in the Making WordPress Slack group.
WordPress 5.3 has seen active development over the past month, with a release date set for November 12. You can download and test the release candidate to get a taste of what to expect—this is largely what final release will look like.
This is a big release with a number of exciting and important updates. Among them are significant changes to the look of the admin interface, enhancements to the block editor that will affect developers of themes and plugins, large improvements to the way that Core processes images, updates to cater for some functions specific to PHP 7.4, improvements to the Site Health feature, and many more improvements that are all documented in the WordPress 5.3 Field Guide.
In addition to these Core updates, the upcoming major release will also include the new default theme, Twenty Twenty.
Want to get involved in building WordPress Core? You can contribute by testing the upcoming release, as well as follow the Core team blog, and join the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group.
Three new committers have been added to the WordPress Core organizational structure. Core committers are individuals who have direct access to the Core development code repositories in order to publish updates to the software.
The new committers are Ian Belanger (@ianbelanger), Timothy Jacobs (@timothyblynjacobs), and Joe Dolson (@joedolson). While Ian’s commit access is specifically for Core themes, both Timothy and Joe have full access to Core. This type of access is only given to individuals who have proved themselves with high-quality contributions and a deep understanding of how the WordPress project works.
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MONDAY, Sept. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans pop a fish oil supplement each day, hoping to bolster their heart health. Now, research suggests they may be on the right track.
The most up-to-date review of data from 13 prior studies found daily omega-3 fish oil supplement use tied to a significant lowering of risk for heart attack, according to a team led by Dr. JoAnn Manson. She is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston.
Daily use of the supplement — typically about 840 milligrams per day — was also linked to a lower overall risk of dying from heart disease, the review found.
In total, the 13 studies involved data on more than 120,000 adults, a sample size that is 64% larger than any other yet conducted, the researchers said.
Although the findings are encouraging, fish oil remains just one factor in heart health, Manson said in a school news release.
“Public health recommendations should focus on increasing fish consumption, having an overall heart-healthy diet, being physically active, and having other healthy lifestyle practices,” she said. However, “this study suggests that omega-3 supplementation may have a role in appropriate patients.”
Overall, Manson’s team concluded that people who took a fish oil supplement on a daily basis had an 8% drop in their risk for heart attack or death due to coronary heart disease.
The study couldn’t prove that fish oil supplements directly caused the improvements in heart health. After all, people who take the supplements might also be doing other things to boost their cardiovascular systems.
However, the researchers pointed out that there was a “dose-response” relationship in the findings: The more omega-3 fish oil a person took in each day, the greater their protection against heart disease.
As a practical matter, that could mean that “high-dose” supplementation — a daily regimen that exceeds the 840 mg threshold that’s the subject of most research — could be of even greater benefit than lower doses.
There was one exception to these trends, however: No evidence was found to indicate that omega-3 fish oil also helped to decrease stroke risk, the researchers reported.
Two experts in heart health agreed that the supplement may help the heart, but shouldn’t be viewed as a cure-all.
“Supplementation only mitigates the risk” for heart trouble, said Katrina Hartog, clinical nutritionist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “As always, addressing the main risk factors [for heart disease] may be of the greatest benefit to reduce risk of developing chronic disease.”
But she said the new data should reassure Americans that fish oil does help.
Dr. Guy Mintz directs cardiovascular health at Northwell Health’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y. Reviewing the new study, he said “there is nothing ‘fishy’ here: This study is enlightening and reinforces the need for supplemental treatment options for patients at increased risk for cardiovascular events.”
Just how might fish oil be working its magic? According to Mintz, “the mechanism of benefit is unknown but may be due to an anti-inflammatory effect and or anti-arrhythmic effect.”
He believes that the supplements may be most helpful for patients at known risk for heart disease.
Based on the new data review, “every physician should have a discussion with their patients at increased cardiovascular risk — including diabetic patients, patients with heart disease, or patients with stents and a history of coronary bypass — to see how the addition of omega-3 supplementation at an optimal dosage could further reduce their risk for future cardiac events,” Mintz said.
The new study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and was published online Sept. 30 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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