Making Section Full Height in X Theme

Making full-height intro sections is awesome. And it’s easy! Many of the demos of X Theme take advantage of full-height sections but they never really explain how. If you’ve searched their forums, you’ll find that they used Revolution Slider to do it, but honestly that’s not nearly as good of a solution as what we’re going to do! You’re probably … Read More

How to Add Reusable Content Block in X Theme & Cornerstone

Working every day with X Theme and Cornerstone, I frequently find myself needing to re-use sections of my content on different parts of my website. While I know that I could save a block of Cornerstone content as a template and re-use it, the problem is that it wouldn’t update whenever I redid the master template. So how do we solve this … Read More

Affiance Coaching Website Complete

We are happy to report that we recently completed a brand new website for the Minneapolis-based business coaching organization Affiance Coaching. We worked closely with the owner to produce something that was attractive, modern, and easy-to-use. The resulting website is full responsive, mobile-friendly, and pleasing to the eye. We also built it in WordPress and utilize the Cornerstone plugin which … Read More

9 Tips for Writing Effective Clickbait Headlines for Your Garbage Content

If you’re anything like me, you know that the only way to trick people in to visiting your crappy website is to manipulate them using clickbait titles on all of your articles. Of course you recognize that producing quality content would be better, but quality content doesn’t grow on trees and you can just as easily deceive people into thinking … Read More

New WordPress Website Design for K9 Connection

We actually completed this site last year, but I’ve got a backlog of sites I’d love to share! This one was a fun one. For those who don’t know, K9 Connection is a unique business that basically puts on events where dog-lovers can go and socialize with each other and with their dogs. Venues typically include popular bars throughout the … Read More

Using a Phone to Take Photos for Your Website

So you’ve ignored the pleas of your web designer and decided to take some photos for your website yourself. Not only that, but you don’t even have a decent camera so you’re just going to rely on a device optimized for taking Snapchats and Vines to handle this critical business piece for you. I could go into detail about the … Read More

Top 10 WordPress Content Sources

Changing out WordPress content is usually pretty simple, but every once and a while it’s easy to get stuck. I’ve found myself asking, “how do I change this text in WordPress” dozens of times. I have assembled a list of places to check, in order from most likely to least likely that should help you to change anything on your … Read More

“In Pieces” Website Review

If you are a fan of beautiful animations and rare animals, you are going to love this one. In addition to being a super awesome website built with modern web standards, all of the animation work is also done entirely in CSS. Besides being very difficult and impressive, this also means that the animations themselves are able to be fully … Read More

Best Way to Record Screencasts of a Browser – Screencastify

One thing I love doing for clients is producing video tutorials of myself on their actual website, doing tasks that they are trying to learn. After I upload it to YouTube, they are able to view it over and over again as needed. And with a little help from a plugin I developed called Video Dashboard, I can embed those … Read More

New WordPress Site for Hastings-based Sprinkler Company

I am pleased to announce I have launched a new website for Skip’s Sprinklers based out of Hastings, Minnesota. Skip’s Sprinklers is a family owned and operated sprinkler company that’s been in business for nearly 40 years. They live by the belief that anything worth doing is worth doing right, and the quality of their work is consistent with that message. While … Read More