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Creating a WordPress Child Theme

by | Feb 28, 2018 | Web

When building a new WordPress website, no matter what theme you use, you should ALWAYS create a child theme. The child theme is where you add all your customizations for the theme, among other things. If you don’t have a child theme, have made changes to your...

101+ Step WordPress Checklist Copy

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Web

This is going to be one of my favorite posts to reference. It’s not one I would sit through and read the entire thing at once, but as these different steps come up while developing a website, it is an excellent guide to follow. A blog post by WPMU DEV: The Most...

The Ultimate Guide to DNS for WordPress

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Web

I have had to deal a lot with DNS settings, website transfers, domain transfers, A record changes, MX record changes, and more. I ‘lived and learned’ when it comes to this area; made a lot of mistakes and learned from them all. This next post is a nice...

Taking Over a WordPress Website: The Ultimate Checklist

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Web

Often have I been asked to ‘take over’ a website for a client. Getting all the passwords for hosting, domain registrars, CMS, etc. always seems to be the most difficult part. Here’s a list of everything to keep track of from Elegant Themes to help...

8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation

by | Jan 10, 2018 | Web

CSS is a very large part of what I do everyday. Sometimes I’m working on client’s existing sites, sometimes I’m building a new site and writing it from scratch. One thing I’ve gotten a lot better at is adding comments. I didn’t do this a...

8 Part Series from Yoast SEO – Ranking Your Local Business

by | Sep 22, 2017 | Web

Yoast put together this 8 part series encompassing a lot of applicable information about optimizing local business websites with links, keywords, search practices, and so much more. This is an excellent reference for anybody working with a local business. An...

20 Photoshop Tricks for Web Designers

by | Aug 22, 2017 | Web

Love this list for web designing in Photoshop, wish someone would have told me these things a long time ago. Hope you find these useful. A blog post from Elegant Themes: 20 Photoshop Tricks for Web Designers Elegant Themes continue to make knowledgeable posts, and...

101+ Step WordPress Checklist

by | Jul 26, 2017 | Web

This is going to be one of my favorite posts to reference. It’s not one I would sit through and read the entire thing at once, but as these different steps come up while developing a website, it is an excellent guide to follow. A blog post by WPMU DEV: The Most...

Typography for Web Designers: 5 Things You Need to Know

by | Jun 27, 2017 | Web

Being a web designer, I found this post on web typography quite insightful, and a good tool to reference for examples of quality uses of typography on the web. Hope you enjoy as well. A blog post from iThemes: Typography for Web Designers: 5 Things You Need to Know...

How to Safely Update Your WordPress Plugins Every Time

by | Jun 6, 2017 | Web

Working so much with WordPress, I’ve learned some of these tips from my own experience. I think the most important two here are to test your plugin updates on a staging site and always update your plugins one at a time. I hope this guide helps you manage your...

Best Practices for Long Scrolling

by | May 30, 2017 | Web

As scrolling becomes more and more popular, with a large part of a that being thanks to the mobile industry, here are some good tips about the most efficient scroll methods when designing your website. A blog post from Adobe: Best Practices for Long Scrolling...

Should Your Website Have Sidebars? What the Research Says

by | May 10, 2017 | Web

This is a good post on sidebars and whether or not you should include it on your website. In my opinion, it seems like you should only when absolutely necessary, and more often than not, include it on your blog. Don’t put a sidebar on your site just to have a...