“How to” blog posts about graphic design, web development, and software and tools that help designers and developers be productive.
Your website shows, "Your connection is not private" because you do not have an active SSL Certificate. In many cases, the cause is an expired certificate, and the error shown is "NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID." Continue reading to learn why this happened, how to fix it and how to prevent it in the future.
Working in Canva? Can't find the export option? Here's a tip: look for download instead. Read on to learn how to quickly export or download your design from Canva.
f you're noticing that the top and bottom of your pages are missing in Microsoft Office and you want to see them, then this post is for you. Showing your full page in Word is easy to do and requires just a couple of setting configurations.
The latest updates to Adobe Acrobat and Reader have changed the default preferences to automatically process your PDF's content for a screen reader. If this feature is not helpful to you, then you may want to turn it off, here's how.
While exploring my Google Analytics, I saw a URL that users were landing on that doesn't exist. The URL is a typo, and the page shows a 404 error. Interestingly though, the offending URL includes spaces in the slug. Space is shown as %20 in a URL address. To ensure users get to where they intend to be, I set up a 301 Redirect for the incorrect URL. Here's how to create .htaccess redirects for...
The WordPress Media Library does not permit uploading SVG file types by default. Trying to upload an SVG file to the WordPress Media Library displays a warning reading, "Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons." To change the functionality of your site and to permit SVG upload, you'll need to update your theme or child theme's function.php with this code.
Enabling the dark mode appearance on your Apple computer is a setting found in system preferences. For operating systems macOS 10.14 (Mojave and later) the setting is system-wide. The Mac system-wide dark mode setting controls the look of your Chrome browser, too. The dark theme look for Macs is easy to turn on; it only takes three steps.
Ever wonder if selecting files and then choosing archive or compress creates a new zip file or if this action also moves all your current files into the new zip file, too? This question and answer about archiving and compressing website files apply to CPanel File Managers on hosting providers like Bluehost or Siteground.
Save time with Code's shortcut for starter HTML templates. First, select your language as HTML. Then start typing "HTML:5" and then click TAB on your keyboard.
If you ever find that Google's Menu (the left navigation) is hidden and only appears when you hover over the menu, and this drives you crazy, then fortunately there's a one-click fix.
You can toggle Gmail's Main Menu by clicking the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines). Clicking this main menu will expand or collapse your navigation