Lots of people are using Medium for their blogs. I really enjoy the functionality of the site so I figured I would try to implement some of their cool features. The one that really stuck out to me was the lightbox, modal, zoom effect that they have on some of their images. This isn’t the […]
This is a great book to start the year with and here’s why. The book is designed to work with an evaluation test($ premium) that gives you your top 5 out of 34 talents. The goal is to evaluate yourself on what you are natural good at so you can invest your time and energy […]
I wanted to create some gold text for a website without using photoshop. Using a solid color is not an option because you can’t really get that gold color. I found 2 good options. The First option was pure css and the second one was css with an image. Check them out below. PURE CSS […]
Awesome design, coded really well, but it loads like crap. Sure, everything looks great after it loaded but during the loading process, stuff is out of wack or just looks janky. This article is going to go into a little detail about what is going on with the loading in your browser and options on what […]
I spent a lot of time trying to find something that I thought would be very simple. Google usually amazes me with all of the features that they provide. One thing that they fell short on was zoom feature while scrolling. This article will discuss the iframe embed code and not the API google maps. […]
I really enjoy google and their vast array of integrated features. The only thing that they really lack is a mission for responsive design. They make adding a google calendar easy by giving you all sorts of options for adding your google calendar to your site. Simply go through a few steps in your google […]
I really like SVG’s. I like to use them whenever I can. They are great for new devices and screens that have beautiful screens. Sure, they don’t get cached as easily as regular images but they have a lot to make up for it. So, when I went to upload an SVG to my WordPress […]
Ever since I started using WordPress, I have been confused as to why it automatically puts in a link to image files in your post/page. Sure, you can insert the image and then click on the little text tab to take out the link. The only problem is that you have to do this every […]
WordPress has always made me scratch my head when it came to the excerpt. I mean, its great to be able to insert your “the_excerpt();” php code into your loop and have everything show up all nice. The default excerpt comes out at 55 characters. That seems alright to me for a list of your blogs. […]
I had a task of creating a background video. I have only done this by using the actual < video > tag and displaying the MP4 file video. This is not that difficult of a task because you have much control over the display of the video. That was just too simple though. I then […]