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… Read more »
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… 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… 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… Read more »
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
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.)
November 21, 2021 at 1:14 pm | blabbing, Design, Programming, web.
To increase page speed for blocking font rendering and to reduce the font rendering time when the page loads on your site, add your fonts as a preload at the top of your page. This may seem counter intuitive to load an asset ahead of time for page speed, but it makes sense in two… Read more »
You know that feeling when you get to a site and there isn’t much there and then you start to scroll and POW everything comes flying into the page in all directions. Yeah. Stop doing that.
November 28, 2016 at 4:29 pm | Design, Email, Programming, web.
If you are wondering why Outlook 2010 and 2013 email clients will not render your font-family tag correctly, you are not the only one. This is a known issue. So despite your fallback fonts being declared these older Outlook clients will use Times New Roman instead. You can always use the code below in the… Read more »
Mobile first for email. Oh course. Right? There are more mobile devices accessing your content, why wouldn’t it be mobile first? Well because mobile doesn’t need any help. It is the faster more nimble sibling to it’s slower desktop and browser based elders. Mobile first means that the styles in the head are for desktop…. Read more »
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