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, […]
Logo Inspiration Central
If you are looking for design inspiration when working on your next logo or branding project, Logo Miner is a great website to hit. You can easily view the colour scheme and fonts used for tons of famous logos from around the world. There’s even links to download or purchase the fonts. It is also possible to […]
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 […]
Video Flashback: Pixar Has Changed A lot in 30 Years
Long before Finding Nemo or The Incredibles, Pixar was a tiny little division of Lucasfilm struggling to find it’s place in the world. When Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas in 1986 computer generated graphics were still in their infancy and computer animation was little more than a gimmick. It took more powerful computers, skilled […]
Wednesday Morning Freebies
Welcome to the April edition of Wednesday Morning Freebies, a collection of the best web & graphic design resources available on the internet. We’re always looking for new resources too – tweet your favourites to @spungerblog or send us an email at hello@spunger.com. Designer Bio Generator Writing your own bio can be an exercise in frustration and […]
Palette Cube – Capture The Colours Around You
File this under ‘Yes Please’! The Palette Cube is a great way to capture the colour of anything around you. It’s the perfect creative companion for graphic designers, photographers, fashion designers, interior designers, painters, and any other creative minds that are obsessed with colour. Palette cube lets you sample the colour of anything around you and get the RGB, […]
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 […]
Aquafina’s New Logo – Love It Or Hate It?
Logo redesigns are hard. Some people are bound to prefer your old logo, some will hate the new logo just because it’s new, and sometimes the new logo just plain sucks. This time around it’s Aquafina taking a stab at a new logo design. The original logo was almost two decades old and it showed […]
20 Things You Should Never Ask A Graphic Designer
Would you ask a painter to paint each wall of your bedroom a different colour to see which one you prefer? And you sure wouldn’t ask your dentist to work for free because you have a lot of friends and you’ll tell every one of them how great of a dentist he is. So why […]
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 […]
Zaha Hadid – Brilliant Designer and Architect
Zaha Hadid, an often controversial but always brilliant architect, passed away suddenly at the age of 65. There will he hundreds of articles written about her life and work so I’m not going to repeat a list of her awards or achievements here. She was often referred to as the most important female architect of our […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Simple Way To Fix Everything Wrong With Apple’s Power Adapters
Apple makes some of the best power adapters in the world – they are compact, convenient and for the most part incredibly durable. I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with the power supplies of other computer manufacturers too (seriously HP, what are you thinking!) and it only reaffirms my belief that Apple has created something almost […]
John Oliver Explains Why Apple’s Right About Encryption
If you’ve ever watched John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight you know that he’s often snarky, often over-the-top, but also pretty insightful on any point he tackles. In his latest episode John Oliver covers the FBI’s ongoing fight with Apple over unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c. The issue is really not about Apple refusing to help the government […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Flow – An Amazing New WordPress Creative Blog Theme
Creative WordPress blog themes are a dime a dozen – this one of the most popular category of WordPress themes and there are literally thousands of both paid and free themes competing for your attention. As a result, finding a good creative theme can be a massive challenge. Flow, from Elated Themes is a brand new WordPress […]
