Tips and suggestions for my favorite online tools in the design, development, and productivity space.
In August of 2023, I built my first WebFlow website. Here are some thoughts about what I learned, what I loved, what was challenging, what I disliked, and what I'd love WebFlow to build into future releases of their service.
Submitting sitemaps via Google Search Console is an important step in ensuring your website is listed in Google search results. Sometimes, a sitemap that you know is valid and fetchable doesn't work in Google Search Console. In this case (which is likely a bug on Google's side) try this trick.
What task should you immediately complete after launching your new website? Hint, it helps all your hard work designing, coding, and writing be found by end-users via search. My design studio provides this behind-the-scenes step for our clients as part of our best practice and SEO tasks. So, do you know what "this step" might be, or are you still wondering? Read this post to find out the answer.
Ever wanted to better organize your Google Chrome extensions? Yep, me too! Here's a quick few tips to pin and arrange your most frequently used Google Chrome extensions in your browser.
Ever wanted to delete your messages in Gmail on your iPhone by swiping? Yep, me too! My default swipe settings were configured to archive my messages, not to delete unwanted messages. Here are quick how-to instructions for setting deletion as your default swipe action for unwanted messages in the Gmail application on your iPhone.
There likely will come a time when you want to use two different computers, as two users, during a virtual meeting. Have you tried it? It often goes poorly due to audio feedback. Here are a few tricks to help you make this a success.
Today, I found a handy online tool called URL Slug Generator. It takes a string, or in layman's terms, words, and turns them into slugs.
I hate doing repetitive work, so this tool is a great find! This tool will decrease the time it takes me to rename dozens of PDF files that are currently in caps and include spaces.
Explore the best Lorem Ipsum generators online. Add dummy copy with ease on your next project.
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.
Writing with enough transition words is an important measure of your website's readability. Your page's readability score is a Search Engine Optimization metric. Learning to use transition words is instrumental in improving your SEO readability score. Consequently, the proper use of transition words improves your website’s visibility. Read on to discover actionable tips.