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Font Inspriation
In my new venture to learn more about web design (as opposed to development), I’ve recently been looking into typography and came across this excellent article full of real life inspiration. http://designinstruct.com/inspiration-web-design/google-fonts-examples/ The article features only free Google Fonts, which I love. The article not only shows you design examples but also gives you the…
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Genesis: Add Previous / Next Arrows After Single Posts
Add this to your functions.php file to add Prev/Next arrows after your single post. Simply use a different Genesis Hook to add them somewhere else. /** Genesis Previous/Next Post Post Navigation */ add_action( 'genesis_after_comments', 'eo_prev_next_post_nav' ); function eo_prev_next_post_nav() { if ( is_single() ) { echo '<div class="prev-next-navigation">'; previous_post_link( '<div class="previous">%link</div>', '< Previous' ); next_post_link( '<div…
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Use Icons Instead of Text in Your WordPress Menu with Font Awesome
First Choose to use the Plugin or Just a Little Script First, if you don’t already know about Font Awesome, you should really check it out. It makes it super simple to use great icons on your site that scale to whatever size you need. I did a quick post about using a plugin to…
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Spring Cleaning for Your WordPress Website
It’s finally that time of year – the snow is starting to melt and we are beginning to see signs of Spring. I know you are used to making sure your home is in order this time of year – but when’s the last time you did a little spring cleaning on your website? See…
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How Can I Change the Fonts on my WordPress Site?
One of the most common requests I get from customers is to change the fonts on their site. WordPress has a very nice visual editor and it is easy to make text bold, italic, underlined, and even to change text color, but changing fonts is a bit more complicated. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t give users a…
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Your Logo is Too Big
Although I am a WordPress developer now, I studied marketing and design in college. Honestly, I love them both. And when clients come to me a with a bad design, it really makes me cringe. Sometimes I wonder, is it my place to say something about a client’s bad design? A bad design is going…
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