Research

  • How to speed up WordPress and pass the Google Page Speed Test

    Updated: Feb 2021 In order to speed up your website, you need to do the following 10 things. This will not only help you pass the Google Page Speed test but also make your site load under 3 seconds and your scores will be very high with sites like Pingdom and WebPageTest. These are not…

  • My review of Five Second Test

    I was test­ing a new logo out and I wanted to get people’s first im­pres­sions and also what they thought the com­pany rep­res­en­ted, so I ran it through Five Second Test. Five Second Test helps you fine tune your land­ing pages and calls to ac­tion by ana­lyz­ing the most prom­in­ent ele­ments of your design only…

  • Where to start learning Web Design

    A con­nec­tion on Linked In con­tac­ted me and asked me a ques­tion: … My ques­tion is: there is so much I want to learn as far as web design. I don’t know where to start first: jquery, CSS, flash, HTML, search en­gine op­tim­iz­a­tion, etc. What would you sug­gest? And what sites would you sug­gest for…

  • Targeting IE or everything except IE

    I’ve known for a long time that you can use conditional statements to target Internet Explorer while excluding all the other browsers. Today I learned something new — you can do it in reverse. You can exclude IE from seeing code without effecting the rest of the browsers. This came into need when I wanted…

  • How to regain control of your WordPress site if blocked out

    I was us­ing a plug-in called Bet­ter WP Se­cur­ity (which I strongly don’t re­com­mend). It had a fea­ture that blocks ac­cess to the ad­min sec­tion for a cer­tain time frame. I mis­takenly set the wrong times and when it was time to edit the site I couldn’t be­cause I was blocked out. If something like…

  • Mac is for designers?

    I’m tired of de­sign­ers think­ing Mac com­puters are for cre­at­ive things, as if Mac isn’t your tool of choice, something is wrong with you. I much prefer the PC, here are my reas­ons: I can de­lete a file with just one key The Home and End keys work prop­erly when nav­ig­at­ing a doc­u­ment I can man­age…