Today you’ll be learning a nifty little trick that you can use to animate your buttons’ hover states. So instead of immediately changing colors, it will actually fade — all with CSS! You can check out the video below, or click here to download the source files and follow along!
How to do graphic design in Photoshop / Illustrator with the pen tool
In today’s video I’m going to walk you through how to design your own graphics in Adobe Photoshop (or Illustrator) using the handy-dandy pen tool. I’ll first give you an overview of how it works, and then I’ll actually dive in and do an illustration of my cute Boston Terrier while you follow along with […]
How to use vector graphics on the web
In this video, you will learn how you can implement scalable vector graphics onto your website that will look good no matter how large they are!
Quick tips for getting web design clients
In this video I outline a little bit of my strategy for converting prospects to sales in my web design sales process. Leave comments below with what you think!
WordPress Structure Overview (Infographic)
Tomorrow we’re going to take a look behind-the-scenes into how WordPress themes are built and organized, but for today we’re going to lay a fundamental groundwork to make sure you know how WordPress sites are structured. Click here to download the infographic as a pdf.
Flat design, part 2
In yesterday’s post, I gave you a quick intro & overview of the latest web design trend, flat design. Today I’m going to go into a little more detail and show you some of the specific tools & strategies I use when putting together flat designs in Photoshop. Click here to download the flat UI […]
The latest web design trend explained… (part 1)
Flat design: the latest web design trend In this video, I am going to give you a quick overview of flat design. I’ll explain what it is, give you a few tips on how to use it, and direct you to some great example websites for you to take a look at before tomorrow’s video, […]
VERY Important WordPress Security Plugin
WordPress sites have lately been the target of “brute force” hacking attempts, which is where the hacker basically tries a million passwords until they guess correctly. Today I will show you a quick and easy tweak to prevent that, using the “Limit login attempts” WordPress plugin. For more WordPress training, check out my step-by-step WordPress […]
FTP Overview and Tutorial with Filezilla
Not sure what FTP is or how to use it? In this video, I explain how FTP works, and show you how to use it with my favorite FTP program, Filezilla.
How to easily implement delayed call-to-action buttons onto your [WordPress] website
Using the simple approach outlined in this video, you can easily have delayed content on your website. (So in other words, it’s content that shows up after the user has been viewing the page for a certain amount of time.) Click here to download training assets.
