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Working with Skeleton Framework for WordPress
For the past few years I’ve used the Skeleton Framework as my parent theme for almost all of my WordPress websites. Skeleton is flexible and simple, as the name suggests, giving me lots of freedom to edit and modify as well as a standard set of shortcodes. I thought I’d give my clients a quick rundown…
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Common WordPress Troubles
There are a few things that can go wrong with wordpress pretty often. Most of them are simple to fix, and you may even be able to do them yourself. With the information below you should be able to fix your site, diagnose it or at the very least communicate better with your webdesigner. The…
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How to Move a WordPress Site
I’ve done a lot of these lately. Moving wordpress sites. Sometimes it’s because I’ve made a new version of the site and it needs to be moved from a sub-folder up to the main, live site. Very often it’s from one hosting company to another. If it’s just from a sub-folder to the main directory, it’s…
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What Is a Responsive Layout?
From Wikipedia: Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). A site designed with RWD adapts the layout…
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Freelance Graphic Design… what do I do now?
Change those beer bottles over to coffee cups, and you’ve got it!
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Online Marketing Plan
Self-promotion… ugh, the bane of my existence. No problem helping other people get their marketing stuff in order. But when it comes to doing my own marketing… “oh, look, the laundry needs to be done,” or “the garden needs to be weeded,” or “my workspace really needs to be organized.” I’m a person who needs…
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Best and Worst Website Hosts (IMHO)
My clients often ask me who to buy hosting from. Aaaaand… sometimes I wish they had asked me first because there are a few I love and a few I… er… don’t. My top recommendation is BlueHost, they’ve been great to me, they’re inexpensive and their up-time is very good. They did have a major…
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I’m FREE!!!
The kids are back in school! (most photos here are from freephotos.com, a GREAT resource for free photos.)
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Add Font-pictures to Your Website
Did you know that you can add lots of symbols and pictures to your website using your existing font? They’re known as Unicode characters. It’s as simple as knowing a few bits of code. For example typing ❤ will give you ❤. If you’re using WordPress to type a blog post or content for a…
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Microsoft Edge… hah!
