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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Add A Favicon To Your Website – The Easy Way!
When you visit a website, the tiny little image in the browser tab or bookmarks panel is called a favicon. It’s one of those nice little touches that good web designers add to a website, and an easy thing to overlook for the not-so-good web designers. Back in the olden days of web design – meaning over 5 […]
Quick Tip: Disable Taxes Using YITH WooCommerce Gift Card Plugin
The YITH WooCommerce Gift Card plugin is one of the easiest, and simplest way to offer gift cards on your WooCommerce online store. This WordPress plugin is dead simple to install and set-up, and there’s a paid-version if you are need more advanced features (seriously, the premium version’s features are insane) – check it out here. […]
Quick Tip: WP-Config Tweaks You Should Know
The wp-config.php file is hands down one of the most important files in your entire installation – without it your WordPress site will not work. With this great power comes a great responsibility to not screw things up or risk breaking your website. There are a ton of additions and tweaks you can add to your wp-config.php file, […]
Quick Tip: Clear a Pesky DNS Cache in Mac OS X
Testing websites can be a huge pain if the DNS refuses to update after an update – I’m looking at you Safari! As I’ve done a thousand times before I just updated the DNS for one of my client’s domain names and waited, and waited, and waited some more for Safari to display the new server. No amount […]
Fullscreen Overlay Menus Updated
There are tons of different ways to make a great website navigation menu and WordPress themes are getting more and more creative in this aspect of theme design. However, the standard drop down menu is still the most functional, especially on a desktop computer, giving users quick access to anywhere they want to go. But when you get […]
Stop Wasting Time Choosing Placeholder Images
Unsplash.It offers a great selection of amazing placeholder images from Unsplash. They’ve served over 75 million images so far, with 726 images (and counting) available. Just input your image size (width & height) after the URL and you’ll get a placeholder. You can even specify random images, or make images grayscale, blurred, and more. It’s an amazing way to speed up […]
Before There Was Photoshop
I will be seriously dating myself here, but I (somewhat fondly) recall the days before Photoshop and scanners and Adobe inDesign. Times were simpler, but so much more work that’s hard to even comprehend how things have changed. I was just old enough to skip the Letraset era, using a Mac Plus, Ready, Set, Go! […]
Fullscreen Overlay Menus
There are tons of different ways to make a great website navigation menu. The standard drop down menu is still super functional on a desktop computer, giving users easy access to anywhere they want to go. But when you get to mobile devices this type of menu really falls apart. That’s where other options, like the hamburger […]
