Smashing Magazine has a good post on Beautiful and User-Friendly Navigation Menus. I really liked the following example they posted: So, I decided to take a shot at making similar buttons using CSS and HTML. Here’s the result: Button 1… Read more ›
Call to action buttons can’t look like every other button on your site, or they’re going to get treated like every other button on your site (i.e. ignored). So, I was Googling around for some inspiration yesterday when I came… Read more ›
I’ve spent dozens of hours trying out crappy WordPress plugins. The list below is the product of more than five years of focused WordPress development. These plugins do their jobs, and they do it well: 1) WORDPRESS EMAIL NEWSLETTERS Wysija… Read more ›
Bracketpress makes it simple to run your own NCAA bracket contest on your WordPress site. Here are the steps to get it up and running. 1) Install and activate the Bracketpress Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bracketpress/ 2) Install and activate the BracketPress Login/Register… Read more ›
Microdata gives web developers an incredible amount of precision when they’re communicating with search engines. I’d thought I’d try it out on a recent product-related blog post I did, and I was surprised to find that there wasn’t a simple… Read more ›
The problem: Out-of-the-box, the WordPress Shopp plugin doesn’t support wholesale pricing. I’m including the steps to implement it below. If you’d like me to implement this solution for you, please contact me at info@fredmarion.com, and I’d be happy to do… Read more ›
This is one of those mysterious, nonsensical Visual Studio bugs that send developers looping through endless pages of forums in search of an answer. I finally found one here after Visual Studio kept telling me my “Find was stopped in… Read more ›
Tip of the day: RackspaceCloud Cloud Sites file permissions can only be changed via a FTP client (i.e. Filezilla). You’d think you’d be able to login with the master FTP username and password and make file permission changes to all… Read more ›
When you’re building a web site, it’s common to first build it on a test server before deploying it to a new server on the “official” domain. In the past, I’d move the test site to the live server by… Read more ›
1) Purchase the domain at GoDaddy.com. 2) Login to your Hostgator account. 3) From your Hostgator control panel, scroll to the bottom and copy the nameservers. 4) Login to your GoDaddy.com account. 5) Click “My Account”, then click Domains/Launch. 6)… Read more ›
