Performing a radial search (showing results based on location, zip code, etc) in WordPress is one of the hardest things I’ve had to figure out how to do. It held me back in many projects and was always a source of frustration. After trying many different plugins and tutorials, I have finally come up with a working solution. Today I’m … Read More
If you have an existing, older website that you want to make mobile-friendly, here is a really simple solution to the problem where mobile users cannot access sub-menus in your main navigation. Nothing is more annoying than tapping a menu item, seeing a sub-menu pop up but immediately getting sent to the next page before you have a chance to … Read More
Have you ever had an element in your responsive website design which needed some padding, but you couldn’t add it because it broke the design? There’s a solution to that problem. Normally, the element in question will just add padding to the outside of itself, often expanding well beyond the space it is supposed to take up. But there is … Read More
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
Today we are discussing The Commons Hotel in my home city of Minneapolis. Located just blocks from my Alma mater, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, this shwanky hotel has been recently renovated to keep it hip and fresh. As far as I know, until recently this was actually a Holiday Inn hotel, or at least that’s what I remember … Read More
So you are trying to use some CSS3 markup to make a border appear in transition when you hover over your link or other element. But it just shows up instantly! This is something I have run into many times, and for some reason no one on the whole internet gives a clear explanation for it. Until today! Why isn’t … Read More
For something that seems so simple, there’s a lot that can go wrong with setting up either a temporary (302) redirect or permanent (301) redirect. With Godaddy hosting specifically, you may run into an issue that you did not foresee. You may even have no trouble redirecting the ENTIRE site, but to redirect just the home page you may encounter … Read More
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
