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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HTTP vs HTTPS
First, what is the difference? You’ve probably noticed sites that are supposed to be secure like banks and sites taking your credit card information have that https:// at the beginning of their URL instead of just the http:// like other sites. According to GoDaddy: HTTP, or hypertext transfer protocol, is the way a Web server…
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Another Reason your Website MUST be Mobile Friendly
I speak a lot about responsive or mobile friendly web design, I’ve always told my clients it’s a non-negotiable. It’s more expensive and time consuming, but if you’re spending money to build a website, you might as well capture your full audience. With 60% of web traffic now coming from mobile*, why would you leave…
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Adobe Typekit and Choosing a Great Font
I had heard about Adobe Edge a while ago, but many of the fonts I found there were the same as Google Fonts, my “go to” place to find fonts. However, I’m not always happy with how Google Fonts renders. The letters aren’t always as smooth as I would like them to be on the…
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Google Fonts
I was just looking over my site and realized I had never done a post on Google Fonts, one of my main website design tools. Although this should probably be included with the 101 tutorials because it’s one of the first things most of my students ask is to how to change the fonts, it’s…
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Favicons-What Kinds of Files Do You Need?
Everyone has seen favicons although not many people know what they are called. They are that little graphic of the website’s logo that you find in the address bar of the browser. Although your client might not know what they are called – or really even consider them when designing a website, they are one…
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