January 23, 2025 at 5:13 pm | Design, Programming, web, Wordpress.
A while back while I was working on the Instacart blog, I got the opportunity to create a product carousel to help the content creators link products they talked about in their blog posts back to cart items in Instacart. The idea was to make it easier for people looking at recipe and blog content to just click to add items right to their cart.
Read more »September 24, 2024 at 1:36 pm | Javascript, Programming, web.
I created a tool to help me quickly get someones screen resolution and browser size. This makes it super easy to get mobile sizes that you may not find inside Chrome Inspector list. I can’t tell you how many times this little test has helped me.
Here are just a couple sizes that I found useful:
iPhone 11 = 414×714 Safari Browser default – 414×896 full screen size
iPhone 13 = 390×669 Safari Browser default – 390×844 full screen size
iPhone 14 = 390×660 Safari Browser default – 390×844 full screen size
August 28, 2024 at 11:35 am | Design, Programming, web.
Certain processes have you create a .well-known folder and file inside at the root of your site. These can be anything from security protocols to verification services. This can be a problem with hosting services that do not allow the creation of the folder or that have site media stored at another URL location such as a subfolder or alternate subdomain.
Here is a quick tip on how to create a file like this inside of a hosting service like Hubspot.
Read more »I recently ran across this strange bug while building a guided landing page for a partner. The Chrome inspector console was throwing a mixed content message for a favicon that was coming from an HTTP non-secure URL. I thought, well that is strange because I added all the favicon links right in the Marketo page and they are all coming from and HTTPS secure URLs.
Read more »August 6, 2024 at 9:32 am | Programming, web, Wordpress.
WordPress search is a nice addition to a site and can help your users find the content their looking for rather than hunt through menus or landing pages.
One problem. WordPress search relevance isn’t that great. There are other search plugin addons that you can install like Relevanssi, which can help things right out of the box. But here are two quick things to change about your default posts search that can help your users find what they are looking for faster.
Read more »July 31, 2024 at 10:23 am | Design, Javascript, Programming, web, Youtube.
One of the problems with embedding Youtube videos into your pages is that they load in all sorts of javascript assets along with you page load even if the user doesn’t click to play the video.
One way to get around this is to use an image to represent the video in the page and don’t embed the Youtube video until the user clicks on the image. This can save your page load as much 1mb- 1.5mb per page load.
Read more »July 9, 2024 at 9:46 am | blabbing.
Based on average life expectancy, this shows gray boxes for weeks you have lived and green boxes for the weeks that you have left based on age and gender.
https://www.fuzzyraygun.com/weeks
March 6, 2024 at 4:06 pm | Design, Programming, web, Wordpress.
You can embed a public Flickr album into your site using my small FlickrSet library and jQuery. Using the options you can style and link to the photos that are brought in. Even style the title of the album. All the items the library uses are publicly accessible
Read more »May 18, 2023 at 12:56 pm | Programming, web.
You can use the following piece of Javascript as a bookmark in your browser to expand all the comments and threads in an Asana task. This is really helpful when you have long threads with lots of comments and you are unable to see all of them because Asana hides them by default.
Read more »Any form, on any page is always a duel between how much information you want from a user for a specific asset or goal and how much information the user is willing to give up in order to get the item that they want. (The asset, download, information etc.)
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