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This tip for finding vector logos may just change your life

So you need to create a grid of logos for a brochure or website. And of course your client sends you a bunch of low-res jpegs. What do you do? This is one of the tasks that quite literally gives me nightmares because it’s tedious, frustrating and absolutely soul crushing when you can’t find what […]

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Simple, Sexy Gravity Forms Customization Using CSS

Gravity Forms is hands down the best forms plugin money can buy – it gets installed on every single website I build by default. The only thing I’ve never been happy with is how a form looks by default. It’s not necessarily ugly, just uninspiring. Some WordPress themes attempt to add a little pizzaz to […]

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Two spaces are NOT better than one

It seems Microsoft has inadvertently (and officially) settled the great spacing debate that has raged for almost 35 years. Ever since computers were able to use proportional fonts there has been no need to add a second space after typing a period, but it’s a hard habit to break for anyone who began typing on […]

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Restore Your Mac’s Startup Sound

The startup sound was one of the delightful things that made a Mac a Mac, differentiating it from the beige boxes and bargain computers of the past. Apple made great efforts to add unique sounds to new models as well. The crash sound of the Power Macintosh 6100, 7100 and 8100 was particularly amazing (unless […]

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Stuck at home because of COVID-19? These four products will inspire and entertain!

It’s easy to be bored when you’re stuck at home. There’s only so many good things to watch on Netflix, and after 2 weeks you’ve probably seen them all. These four products are delightfully weird and endlessly fun. Golden Girls’ Tiki Mugs Pull out a cheesecake and spend your afternoons on the lanai with these […]

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Gravity Forms: Passing Data To a Form Using a URL

Getting a customer to click “BUY NOW” on your pricing table is amazing, great work! But now that they’ve been redirected to your sales form, they still have to choose which options they wanted. And if they’ve forgotten the names or features, or just didn’t pay attention at all, they’re going to get frustrated really […]

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The Best Book For Small Business Owners. Ever.

If you’re a business owner I’m sure you’ve read a ton of books from experts who promise they have the perfect answer to growing your business and improving your bottom line. I’ve literally lost track of all the times I’ve been inspired, only to realize that, no that advice really doesn’t apply to me, or […]

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Instantly Resize Any Image To Over 50 Social Media & Web Sizes

The creators of Promo have come up with a super amazing and useful online app that automatically resizes any image to over 50 web and social media sizes with the click of a button. The process couldn’t be simpler – just upload an image or enter a url and the app automatically gives you a […]

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This Hidden iPhone Feature Will Blow Your Mind (And Change Your Life)

If you are one of those people who still care about spelling, punctuation and grammar when sending a text message or email from your phone, this mind blowing iPhone feature is for you. Before this amazing iPhone feature, if you wanted to correct a typo or change some text you had to press your finger […]

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This Apple Watch Stand Turns Your Watch into a Classic Macintosh

There are a ton of trendy, even kitschy products related to the Apple Watch. Some are great, some are ridiculous. Every once in a while a product comes along that is just mind-blowingly perfect. The Elago W3 Apple Watch stand is one of those products – it’s cheap, offers great functionality and has a massive […]

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Scaling an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019

If you’ve recently updated to the 2019 version of Adobe Photoshop CC you will probably have noticed that proportional scaling no longer works as expected. After selecting the Transform > Scale tool and holding down the Shift key your image size will scale in any direction you drag your mouse – there are no constraints at […]

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Quick Tip: Targeting Specific Gravity Forms With Custom CSS

Gravity Forms is one of the most powerful WordPress plugins available, and hands down the best forms plugin money can buy. Gravity Forms gets installed on every single website I build, and if I take over maintenance of a website, I usually encourage clients to switch to Gravity Forms. It’s so powerful, expandable and easy […]

4 years ago More
 

Insert One WordPress Page Into Another

Years ago, when I was building old school HTML websites, I would use the PHP Include function to insert one web page into another. This was incredibly useful when you had an element that was common among multiple pages (like a sidebar or a footer) and you didn’t want to have to make updates to […]

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Kernit: the amazing font inspired by Jim Henson’s imagination

If you’re a fan of Jim Henson’s manic brand of fun and whimsy, this new font by designers at MCKL and COLLINS is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. Kernit is a loveable, strange and totally psychedelic typeface available for free in two styles: bold and outline. The font is “meant to capture the same imagination, […]

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Quick Tip: Mail was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying

If you just set-up a new IMAP based email account on your iPhone things are normally pretty easy. However, if the set-up didn’t go totally as planed you will sometimes get an error message that says your message was “rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying”. Don’t worry, this is easy to […]

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How To Add a Shopping Cart Icon To a Mobile Website With Total WordPress Theme

Total is hands down my favourite WordPress theme – I’ve tried dozens of different themes but keep on coming back to Total because it’s so simple, powerful and feature-rich. If you haven’t tried Total yet, you really, really should. However there’s one thing I’ve never been able to figure out how to do and it’s […]

5 years ago More
 

Google Chrome To Start Labeling HTTP Sites as “Not Secure”

Google has been touting the benefits of the HTTPS protocol for years, elevating sites using HTTPS in Google’s search results since 2015. With the release of Chrome 68 in July, 2018 Google is going one step further, actively marking any website that use the older (and inherently less secure HTTP) as ‘Not Secure’ right in […]

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WordPress Support Made Easy!

Have you ever struggled to fix a nagging issue with your WordPress website? Did a software update break your WordPress theme? Having trouble adding a new page to your website? That’s where NinjaWP comes in! They are experts at fixing WordPress and WooCommerce issues and offer expert level support to ensure your website is running […]

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Aligning Objects in Adobe Illustrator

If you’re anything like me, you use the align tools in Adobe Illustrator on a daily basis. Unfortunately when you use these tools, no matter how many objects you select or the order you select them in, each object moves, making it impossible to do something as simple as centre an object within a box. […]

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How to Create an HTML Signature in Apple Mail

Mac OS X has a reputation for being user friendly, and in almost every single way it is. Unless you want to have a fancy HTML email signature and are using Apple Mail that is. For some bizarre reason using an HTML signature is a shockingly difficult proposition. Thankfully, after creating my own HTML signature, […]

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How to Charge Clients For Logos & Design Services

Deciding what to charge a client is one of the most difficult things any designer will ever have to do. There are so many factors that need to be considered. Charging too much ensures you won’t get the job; charging too little ensures you will attract lower calibre clientele. The ultimate goal is to find […]

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Quick Tip: An Easy Way To Improve Mac OS X Finder Searches

I am an hardcore Mac OS X fan. I’ve been using one continually since 1989 and don’t plan on changing anytime soon. My computer does what I need it to do, and it does so quickly, easily and efficiently. My biggest (minor) complaint has to do with Spotlight file searches. I do literally hundreds of file searches […]

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How To: Create a Custom WordPress Plugin

Sometimes the only way to add the functionality you need to a WordPress website is to edit the site’s function.php file. I’ve seen thousands of WordPress how-to articles throughout my career as a web developer and so many of them say to add this code to the site’s functions.php file or header.php file and you’re […]

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Hilariously And Unintentionally Dirty Logos

I know this type of article has been done a million times, and you have probably seen many of these logos before, but it’s still always good for a laugh. You seriously have to ask yourself if the designers of these logos really hated their clients, or was everyone involved in the design process oblivious […]

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Trouble Restoring a Database With All-in-One WP Migration

Moving a WordPress site from one server to another has always been a bit of a pain. You need to deal with all the website files, the plugins, images, and of course the database. Throw in a domain name change and the whole process gets downright frightening – however using the fantastic All-in-One WP Migration Plugin by ServMask, migrating […]

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