I made a fun video with my friend Lydia at Expresso Designs today about backing up your site and safely updating, and I realized I was overdue for a website backup post. Basically, you should not work without a net. Two nets, actually – a staging site and regularly scheduled backups of your site. The staging […]
Adding Your Logo to the Login Screen
I thought it would be a fun thing to see a photo of my kids every time I signed into the back end of my site. And, of course, you may need to do that if you’re making a site that will have a a lot of the employees of your customer seeing the admin […]
Preloaders – the Personalized License Plate of the WordPress World
I started a complicated analogy of custom license plates, the DMV, honeymooners, and, inevitably, prison riots. It just went off the rails, so I deleted it and am sticking to dignified directness in my writing tonight. Often, we have to wait for a site to load. But what if you start to customize a users […]
Don’t Eat Candy You Find on the Ground!
While I usually write about WordPress and tips and tricks thereof, this was an excellent article that I wanted to pass on to anyone reading this blog (hi, Mom!). Sometimes people are intimidated by trying to protect themselves from viruses, spyware, malware, etc (fun fact – it’s all malware) and some just stick their head […]
Using Plugins Wisely
Ah, plugins. Remember when smart phones first came on the scene, and everyone was archly assuring you that “there’s an app for that”? Sometimes I feel like those of us in the WordPress world rush to use plugins in much the same way. Plugins are wonderful tools that make life so much simpler (anyone who […]
New Trends in Web Design
Sort of a lazy post, but I really liked this article on New Trends in Web Design. The author’s focus is on UX (user experience) so many of the points of the article touch on that. But that’s what I think the focus of a designer should be – you want your site to be […]