There are many tools you have available to you, most of which can be found at the other end of a Google search. In these articles, I’ll discuss some of my favorite web design tools and how I use them.
In working with people who are new to web design and development, I have often found that backing up a website is one of the last things on their mind. They’re more interested in the fun stuff. Backing up your website is more like a chore. It’s the computer equivalent of cleaning the litter box. …read more…
Although I like Macs and I love Ubuntu, I spend most of my time in a Windows environment, because most of the people I work with use Windows. I need to see what they see and see it how they see it. So, Windows it is. Windows is not a bad place to do web …read more…
In an earlier post on creating child themes for WordPress, I said that if you had already made changes to your theme, you could use a program like WinMerge to find the differences between a clean copy of your theme and the copy you’ve been editing. The time has come to show just how that …read more…
I am constantly recommending that people who are trying to tweak various elements on their WordPress blog use Firebug,* which will allow them to easily see the exactly the element in the code they are trying to change. Because I see a lot of questions about how to use it (as well as reluctance to …read more…
When designing a website or blog, you sometimes need a background. You can try to come up with your own, and there is some merit to that, or you can try one of the many online background generators that are available. The following are a few of my favorites. ZenBG includes a large variety of …read more…
A while back, I posted this on the Graphene support forum. I want to expand on some of those points a little bit here. I read a lot of forum threads where someone says “I tried that and nothing changed.” Occam’s razor tells us to try the simplest things first. If you change something, like …read more…
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