Tips & Tricks 33
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Screw You, Pay Me!
Getting paid is pretty much the most important part of freelancing or remote working. When you don’t see your clients face-to-face on a regular basis it gets more difficult to make sure the money keeps flowing in. Charge what you’re worth. Don’t be afraid to lose a job because a client can’t afford you Charging what […]
Spunger Image Compression Poll
Every single web designer has their own tried and true method for compressing images for the web. I was reminded of this yesterday when I exported a large background image out of Photoshop using the Save For Web feature as I normally do. It was a complicated image so I decided to check the file […]
Tesla Login Customizer
So you’ve built the sexiest, most custom WordPress website you can manage and the client is thrilled. Until the get to the standard WordPress login screen and wonder why it looks nothing like the rest of the website. There are tons of different plugins for customizing the WordPress login page, some are amazing and some […]
Fileship.io Makes Sure You Get Paid: Step By Step!
Our first article regarding Fileship.io mentioned a few issues and we were contacted by the company almost instantly to learn more about what our issues were. It took a day to work everything out and I can say that everything seems to work flawlessly now. Talk about awesome customer service! Step 1 There are no […]
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 […]
Fileship.io Makes Sure You Get Paid
File this under “why the hell didn’t I think of this!”. Fileship.io is a new service that holds your completed design files hostage until your client pays the bill. It’s not always necessary, but there are clients that you know are just a little bit shady. All you do is upload a file, enter your PayPal email […]
Fluid Browser is a Multitasker’s Dream Come True
If you are anything like me, having a movie or TV show playing while I’m working provides the perfect amount of distraction to get things done. Back when I had two monitors and a MacPro this was a pretty simple task. But now that I’m in mobile mode, working exclusively on a MacBook Pro with no […]
Two Super Simple Ways To Duplicate a WordPress Page
You’ve spent days building and tweaking the perfect WordPress page and you are completely happy with how it looks. Now you want to duplicate the page and use it as a template for other pages on your website but there’s no built-in way to do this with WordPress. Don’t worry, you don’t have to rebuild this […]
