Do you remember that movie, Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner? The one where he builds a baseball field in the middle of his cornfield? You know — with the tagline, “build it and they will come”? Well, your website is not like that at all. Your website isn’t a field of dreams. If you […]
Your Website Isn’t “Field of Dreams”
Why You Should Invest In Web Design Retainers
The basis of all great service work is good relationships. Think about your personal life. When you hire somebody like a car mechanic, accountant, or plumber, and you find someone that delivers great work, you keep going back to them. In some cases, you might even keep them on a retainer, like with a lawyer, […]
Ordered Lists With A Different Color For Numbers
In HTML, there are two types of lists: ordered and unordered (ol and ul). Ordered lists have numbers for each list-item (li), while unordered lists do not have numbers. Unordered lists are generally used for many different things, like site navigation, widgets with links, bullet-point lists, or any place a set of links might show […]
Small Beginnings: The Gift of Persistence
A reminder that all things have small beginnings, and that the real victory is in the journey, not in the winner’s circle.
Styling the Select Element Consistently in HTML
Getting different web browsers to show the same element the same way can be tricky, especially when it comes to form inputs. One of the most finicky HTML elements to style consistently across different browsers is the select element. Here are some tips for styling the select element to make it look the same from […]
Get the URL of a Featured Image in WordPress
Sometimes it is useful to get the URL of a Featured Image in WordPress, instead of just outputting the image itself as HTML. When would you use this? If you need to get the URL in order to use it for a background image, as in a header at the top of the page, for […]
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Talking Content First Strategy on Rethink.fm
Recently, I had a chance to sit down with my friend Jackie D’Elia of Jackie D’Elia Design. She just launched a show called Rethink.fm, the forward-thinking podcast about web design and front-end development in WordPress. We’ve had several discussions leading up to this about content first strategy and design, which is the polar opposite of […]
Don’t Rely On Referrals For Revenue
I’m going to start this article with a controversial statement. Referrals aren’t a reliable source of income. I can hear you disagreeing with me now, but hear me out. Now, if I were to ask you your number one source of sales, chances are high you’d tell me referrals or word-of-mouth. Now while I do […]
Webkit Bug Fix: Slider Causes Font Weights To Change On Page
Updated November 16th, 2020
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Every browser has it’s own idiosyncrasies. A browser quirk I found in Safari is directly related to pages with a slider located on the page. Specifically, when the slides animate, font weights of various HTML elements somewhere else on the page change when the slides animate. Weird, right? It turns out this is a bug […]