From CSS to frameworks and design mockups to code, these are posts that span the gamut of Kelly’s day-to-day work as a web designer and developer, including Squarespace, WordPress, Wix Studio, Statamic, Shopify, and other platforms.
Recently a client asked me if I had any recommendations for resources, classes, or tips for how to learn the basics of web design. This particular client is an employee of a company utilizing HubSpot for their blog. She is tasked with making landing pages and updating blog posts in HubSpot and is eager to learn more about websites and code. If this sounds like you, then you'll enjoy these...
Today, I was working on adding the question "How did you hear about us" to a client's Shopify store. Fortunately, Shopify has a great document with how-to-steps "Ask how customers heard about your store." This Shopify document walks you through how to add a snippet to your code base, include the snippet in your cart, update configurations, make the form a required element, and add this customer...
LinkedIn, like most social networks, allow users to embed posts into social streams and unto their websites. Here's how.
Recently I created an interactive animation in Adobe Animate. The Adobe Animate part was relatively straightforward, but embedding the exported code into my WordPress website was tricky. This blog post shares what I learned and additional resources I found helpful.
In this post, I share how I created an HTML5 canvas that allows users to drag and drop symbols with their mouse or finger on the canvas using Adobe Animate.
Bring psychological terms, design principles, and UX concepts into your web and product designs. Learn about the Anchor Effect, Decision Fatigue, Serial Position Effect, Gamification, and more in this UX Glossary by Peter Ramsey.
A discussion of why you may choose to use relative or absolute internal links in your WordPress blog website. Explore the pros and cons.
Did you know that CSS allows you to consistently find and style all the links that end in a certain extension on your website or webpage? Cool, right? CSS can search for exact URL matches and query whether a term is contained in a URL.
E-commerce stores focus on decreasing cart abandonments because that's how profits are made! One technique to combat cart abandonment is to use the HTML page title as a flashing visual to re-grab the attention of a distracted shopper. View examples and learn how to implement this on Shopify or Wordpress, too.
There are so many sites to purchase and renew domains from; however, my favorite, by far, is Name Silo, and here's why: cheap price and the FREE extras.