We Need to Livestream. How Does That Work? We were all suddenly faced with an unusual set of circumstances: No one would have thought even a couple of weeks ago that we would need to be social distancing the way we have had to in the last week or two. I have a bit of […]
One request that I have received many times in the last week is how to add a notification to a website, with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this quick video I show you how to add a notification bar to any WordPress website.
The world is under siege and the Zombie Apocalypse has begun... Just kidding. We are all being encouraged to work from home for the next while to help slow the spread of COVID-19, and I've had a number of people asking me to help them find solutions for meetings. I've been making some recommendations that […]
Make Client Feedback and Change Requests Effortless As a WordPress professional, one of the most frustrating and time-consuming parts of my job is getting content or changes from a client. About six months ago I came across a really helpful tool that I am using on all of my new projects, which is called WP […]
Have you ever wanted to use a background video for part of your webpage? Videos are great at adding visual interest but can have drawbacks as well. In this video we'll show you how to create a loopable video, and then export that video to a format that will load quickly on the web. We'll […]
In this video, we're going to go over how to set up a Black Friday promotion for your WordPress store using WooCommerce. We will set up sales on individual products and we will set up coupon codes, which can be used to build your email list as well as boost your sales.
In this video tutorial, I'll be showing you a simple procedure for creating a rotating logo animation using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The resulting animation can be exported as a gif file and can be used on web pages for a cool effect.
So you’re surfing the web. Perhaps you start out at a site like Amazon. After browsing a while you find a product that you like. You share that product with someone via text message, and man does that seem like a complicated address. Perhaps you could care less about what all that stuff means, or […]
As a web designer, one very technical concept that I have had to try to communicate with my clients is DNS. What is DNS? What are DNS records, what is DNS propagation? These are some of the questions I am going to try to answer in as non-technical a way as possible. What is DNS? […]
One area where I see a lot of confusion is web hosting. It may not always be obvious about what hosting is, or what the difference is between hosting that costs $5 per month, and hosting that costs $500 per month. in this video, I give a quick overview.
I have often seen websites that run very slowly because of images that are far too large for the web. Full-Size stock images can be several megabytes in size, and even a large image on a web page needs to be much, much smaller. In this video, I will run through a process that can […]
In this post we're going to look at using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create a button out of a simple text link, rather than using a button image. This is a great alternative for things like PayPal buttons.