“Intersect” Not Working in Illustrator – Pathfinder Tips

A common problem for Adobe illustrator beginners is the occurrence of the error “The filter produced no results. Please select two overlapping paths” when attempting to use the “intersect” function of the pathfinder. For whatever reason, support on this particular issue is scant, though the solution is actually quite simple. I am going to illustrate how to accomplish this task … Read More

Padding or Margin Only Affects First Line of Text – CSS

A common problem when formatting your website with CSS is that the first line of text in a paragraph, header, or link is affected by margin or padding while the remaining lines are not. It may even appear as though the first line is indented in some cases while none of the others are. Solution for padding or margin only … Read More

Vimeo Error: “Blocked a Frame with Origin” – Solution

Currently, many users of the embedded iframe video player from Vimeo are getting an error that looks something like this:

This may or may not be causing any problems in actual functionality, but it is annoying and should be fixed regardless. Solution to Vimeo Error The Vimeo team is currently in development of the solution to this problem which … Read More

Undefined Index – PHP Text Widget Error Solution

If you are using the PHP Text Widget in WordPress and get an error in your Admin section that reads:

Or something similar, there is an easy solution to this annoying problem. First, load up the file plugin.php from the plugins directory, usually wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php. You may want to download it using your FTP program so you can work on … Read More

Authors Loop with Links to Pages – WordPress Tutorial

Creating the loop for a page that displays all of your authors in your WordPress website is something that’s not as straight-forward as you would think it would be. Additionally, actually linking to the author’s page is fairly tricky. So today I am going to show you how to do it. You can take the final code and put it … Read More

Use Responsive CSS to Remove Admin Bar in WordPress

If you want to remove the Admin Bar in WordPress using only CSS, there is a very easy way to do it. You can even make it responsive, so that it will display or be hidden depending on the size of the screen. Additionally, you won’t need to edit any of the core WordPress files, you will only need to … Read More

WordPress Website for Lakeville Errand Service

Brian Johnson Design is happy to announce that we have gone live with a new WordPress site for Ponytail Xpress, a Lakeville-based errand service and personal shopping service. In addition, I noticed today that even though we just launched the site and we only did minor search engine optimizations, it is currently ranking fairly high on the first page for … Read More

New WordPress Website for Twin Cities Marketing Agency

We recently launched a new website for the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro-based marketing agency, Magnetik Marketing Solutions. The site is actually template-based, with numerous customizations done to it. There is a large, front-page slider that gets some of the marketing message of the business out to visitors while adding a little motion and excitement to the design. To add some content … Read More

Change Number of Results in Loop: WordPress

If you want to limit or even make UNlimited the number of results produced by the WordPress loop, without starting a new wp_query, I have a solution for you. This will work on an results or archive page, anywhere the loop is used, including results for authors, custom taxonomies, custom post types, or categories. In this example, we are going … Read More