“How to” blog posts about graphic design, web development, and software and tools that help designers and developers be productive.
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
Animated gifs are image files that loop, almost like a video. You place animated gifs, which have a file extension of .gif, as images in WordPress's block editor. Sometimes, however, your animated gif displays only as a single image. In this case, the animation and looping are not working. This animated gif error can be frustrating, but the WordPress fix for this error is straightforward.
To apply a custom layout for all tag-specific pages use the tag.php file. This will allow you to create a similar template to other archive pages, such as categories, but retain customization options. As a starting point for your tag.php file, you can copy and paste the current code from your archive.php template.
As a designer, I use arrow shapes frequently and want to have an array of arrows available in every program I use, ideally within a click or two. Here’s a quick way to add all your arrow shape needs to Adobe PhotoShop.
As in most things, there are many different ways to accomplish finding out what template or templates your page is using. Below we share a free plugin option and share a code snippet option for seeing what templates each page of your WordPress site uses.
If you have cash gift cards lying around with let's say $0.52 on one gift card and $0.60 on another, then I've got a simple tip for accessing that cash and throwing away your fully used cash gift card. Read about my favorite (and convenient way) to use small cash amounts left on cash gift cards.
Learn more about the basics of domain names and especially why it's important to have redirects for www/non-www and http/https configured correctly with your DNS and server-side scripts.
Sometimes PhotoShop throws an error and tells me that can it can not place a document that I'm dragging into another document because the current document has an input-only color profile. Do you have this problem too? If yes, read on to learn how to easily address this warning.
The gibberish you see in Chrome is likely indicative of a font issue, specifically with the Roboto font. I bet you're a designer! Here's how to fix it, and it's really easy!