Bloggin' about WordPress and other stuff
I really like the Metro theme from StudioPress. Recently I was working on the third WordPress site I’ve built with Metro and ran into a small problem. Widget titles for the widgets provided by a certain plugin were printing (displaying) HTML span tags wrapped around the widget title text, as you can see in the [...]
I think I need to start by saying that this post is in no way a complaint about StudioPress themes or the Genesis framework. I switched to Genesis and StudioPress late in 2012 and I couldn’t be happier. In fact, I’ve been systematically going through my existing websites and converting them to StudioPress from, well, [...]
One of my tasks as a builder of websites is to make the user experience for the client as painless as possible, on both the front and back ends of the website. Painless, or better yet, enjoyable, user experience is one of those things we’ll never fully reach, but one we should always be striving [...]
This video from Creative Mornings features Jason Santa Maria giving a talk on saying “No,” along with lots of other great business advice for those of us in the creative world. Having been a home builder/remodeler for more than a decade, and now a website builder for the past four years, I can identify with [...]
FooBox is a relatively new lightbox plugin for WordPress sites that is responsive and, in my experience so far, works very well across multiple devices. I currently have it installed on a number of websites including this one, and you can see it in action on the single portfolio pages and on a blog post [...]
A ten-minute video of SEO advice from Google, the people who are writing and re-writing the book on SEO.
Update: One year after writing this post I deactivated Widgetkit on this website because this was the only post/page where it was needed, and it had thwarted my efforts at only loading its scripts and styles on just this post. This tutorial is still valid, and the code still applies…Widgetkit just doesn’t work on this [...]
Checked the mail this morning and found an envelope that looked to me like junk mail. I would have run it directly through the shredder were it not for the call to action on the outside of the envelope that caught my eye, which you can see in the image below: That made me smile, [...]
Invoicing clients is a fact of life for anyone in business. No matter how much you love what you do, at some point you will need to send your client an invoice so that they can pay you for your services. As we near the end of 2011 we have many options to choose from [...]
I had a client call me last year asking why they had to renew their domain already, since we had done that not too long ago. I stopped in at their retail store and they showed me an envelope, a notice, and a return envelope from Domain Registry of America. I was slightly confused because [...]
