Web Design 67
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Awesome Colour Palettes
Check out Spunger’s new weekly feature – Awesome Colour Palettes! Each week we will showcase a new selection of awesome colour palettes, perfect for web or graphic design. This week’s colour palettes come from all around the world, including Canada, Cambodia and Costa Rica.
Build a Website Directly from Your Facebook Page
Every business owner knows they should probably have a website. Unfortunately some owners are too cheap to hire a web designer, some owners don’t want to have the time it takes to maintain a website and some just don’t see the point because a Facebook page is good enough (right?). PaveVamp changes all that. In […]
OptimizeMySite – Kick Ass SEO Analysis
SEO is an insanely cut-throat industry – anything that helps you better optimize your website is an invaluable tool for any webmaster or web designer. OptimizeMySite, my go-to tool for SEO analysis, is a relatively new service but it’s interface and awesome analysis make it my hands down favourite. All you have to do is […]
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 […]
2016 Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet
Why can’t all social media sites just play nice together and have the same profile and image size?! What size is the Facebook cover photo again? 815 x 351? Or is it 851 x 315? What about Twitter? Okay I made it 500 pixels high but I’ve lost some of the image! Enough guessing, just […]
Create Lite – A Free Theme From Theme Trust
Create Lite is a totally free version of Create, Theme Trust’s best selling WordPress theme. It’s built around SiteOrigin’s great Page Builder (similar to Visual Composer) so you have a ton of control over each page’s layout and content. Create Lite is missing premium features like WooCommerce support and Slider Revolution, both available in the full-featured version. For a simple blog, business or portfolio website Create Lite […]
eCommerce Shootout – Cloud & Lolly Shares Some Shopify Love
Welcome to eCommerce Shootout, Spunger’s new series dedicated to exploring the in’s and out’s of different eCommerce solutions. Our first article features Cloud & Lolly, an Edmonton, AB based jewelry studio who uses (and loves) Shopify. Why did you choose Shopify – what features, etc. helped you make this choice? I chose Shopify because they appealed to […]
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 […]
Stripe + WooCommerce is Now Free!
If you’re anything like me, the first thing you do when setting up a WooCommerce store is to figure out which payment processor I’m going to use. PayPal has never been my first choice (for a myriad of reasons I won’t go into here), however I’ve used the Stripe WooCommerce plugin quite a few times now and […]
