If rainbow-colored fonts, 1990s layouts, and tiny, tiled background images are your thing, have I got a website for you. My last website review was for the new and glamorous Commons Hotel located in Northeast Minneapolis. This website for the St. Paul icon, the Wabasha Street Caves could not be any more different than that. This is a website that was … Read More
The day has come for me to announce the release of the new Portastand.com website. Hot off the heels of the launch last week of the Society of Clinical Psychology Website, I’ve got back-to-back sites going live. It’s a good feeling! Working closely with the good folks at Portastand, we’ve produced a website I think we can all be proud … Read More
I am pleased to announce the completion of a new website design for Division 12 of the American Psychological Association: Society of Clinical Psychology. After several months of planning, revisions, and testing, we have finally gone live and are happy to share our work with the internet. As with any large website, especially one for an extensive organization, there were … Read More
If you are like me, you frequently need to be able to easily add social media follow buttons directly to your WordPress theme. You could, of course, hard-code them, but you are still going to have to find the images and add all that markup to get it looking good. There is an easy way! With the Social Media Feather … Read More
Taking a variable from PHP and sending it to javascript seems like a really simple thing to do. But it’s not. I’m sure if you ended up here, you’ve tried and tried to get it to work with little success. I’m not sure what the people online are talking about, none of those solutions seem to be functional in most … Read More
If you’ve made it here, odds are you’ve already been through the depths of the internet, full of “simple” tutorials talking about how easy it is to pass a variable in your PHP code to Javascript in WordPress. Maybe they even have simple, foolproof examples. The only thing is, they don’t work. WHY don’t they work? Who cares! They are … Read More
This one had me stumped for quite a while. Whenever I used gradients in my layer mask for an image later, I would end up with really obvious banding, which really just ruined the photo in my case. Even with dithering enabled and using 16-bit color mode as all the identical online “solutions” suggested, I was still getting the banding … Read More
Sometimes you may find that the permalink of a single page you have in WordPress is not working. When you are in the edit screen, it shows up fine. But when you click to view it, the permalink is something like yoursite.com/?p=14 or something along those lines. Additionally, when you try to view the page when logged out, you get … Read More
I came across a really neat trick today for those times when you’ve been locked out of your own WordPress site or a client wants you to make changes to their site but never gave you login credentials. All you need is FTP access and you can create a new administrator user. Original credit for this goes to George Stephanis of … Read More
