Pure Wow is one of those sites you could browse for hours. It’s basically just cool stuff going on in the cities listed. Within about 2 minutes I already had a cool coffee shop in LA I want to try out. The design is clean, and while it’s not ground-breaking, there were a few things [...]

Business Catalyst can be a great setup for many businesses, but it can also come with big headaches. While creating a recent site in BC, I needed to extract the most recent blog post and add both the image and an excerpt of the blog to the home page. Here’s how to make it work [...]

In this post series we’re creating a jQuery Slideshow from scratch. In this post we’re simply using a few additional lines of code to add a link to the images. Example: See jsFiddle at the bottom of this post. Note: The jsFiddle at the bottom of this post is a composite of all previous posts on [...]

Sometimes you just like to look at beautiful designs, so I’ll provide a little brain candy for this Monday morning. Heartbreakers Fashion Negocio De Mulher Pretty Darn Cute Designs Heather the Realtor Free People My Dream Web Design Red Peach Designs

In this post I’ll go through installing a plugin to automatically add drop-downs, and then adding a simple animation to that drop-down. We’ll be adding a Plugin called Dropdown Menu Widget, and using jQuery to add the animation. WordPress Built-in Menus When you add a standard WordPress navigation using their PHP code: WordPress creates a menu [...]

Let’s say you’ve customized the shopping cart Quantity module to make it fit your website’s design. But when someone adds a product to the cart, it doesn’t update the number anymore! Here’s a quick fix, inspired by Mario Gudelj on the blog post here, and his original coding here. First, I hacked the actual shopping cart module [...]

Buying a laptop is not an easy thing to do. The amount of tech speak you have to wade through is overwhelming! So here’s a quick guide to explain all those terms plus a list of options you’ll want to decide on before you go shopping. We’ll start with the easy stuff. Basic Choices Screen [...]

Let’s say you’ve got a white background on an image, but you need it to be transparent. In photoshop if you’re just doing a design, you can  use the Multiply blending mode to combine layers and effectively make a background transparent. But if you need to put that image online with a transparent background, you’ll [...]

Don’t you just love it when you come across a beautiful site? Amber Murphy Photography was a link I stumbled across on facebook, as a friend of a friend. I don’t know Amber at all, but her site is gorgeous – great colors, design, and branding. Color Integration I feel like I should use a [...]

I’ve heard a lot about the mailbox app, and almost signed up in line waiting for it, but it seemed an interminably long wait. Well today it became available to all; so I immediately paused everything I was doing and downloaded it. This post is my stream of consciousness (translated a bit into readable sentence [...]