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Custom admin branding for Content Management Systems
Want a custom designed administrative interface for your WordPress-powered site that matches your brand? Instead of the default theme and colour schemes, you can have one that matches your brand....
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New Completed Project: Funding Matters Inc. Blog
Funding Matters wanted to move from a Blogspot-hosted blog to something much more professional: a WordPress blog hosted on the website’s server. We needed a design that could fully integrate with the...
View ArticleUpdated Site Design
Web Design is a field of lifelong learning where designers and developers grow and learn. For some of us, our own websites tend to take the backseat to those of our clients. The time has come! I’ve...
View ArticleSheridan Insider
I worked with the creative director / graphic designer on the Sheridan Insider project, which is the internal newsletter for faculty and staff of Sheridan College. I helped develop a custom WordPress...
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Tinacious Design sees another update
With this update I decided to go with a mobile-first approach. The site follows a similar layout but has been refined. New header and navigation, and improved layout site-wide. Both the main site and...
View ArticleMentoring at Ladies Learning Code: WordPress for Beginners
I am excited to be mentoring my WordPress prowess at the sold-out Ladies Learning Code event tomorrow! Ladies Learning Code is a group in Toronto who provide women the opportunity to learn...
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Responsive Design vs. Mobile Website
More and more people are accessing websites from their mobile phones. Developing mobile websites is very important. There are 2 different ways web designers and developers can address the needs of our...
View ArticleWhy not to use free WordPress themes
So you think using free WordPress themes is a good idea over paying a designer and developer to make one for you? Well, you’re wrong. Among the obvious reasons of having a run-of-the-mill cookie cutter...
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OnlyCode.ca – PSD to HTML Services
Only Code is a PSD to HTML service that transforms your creative designs into awesome, W3C compliant websites. Only Code also does PSD to WordPress, CMS and Email Templates. The website is designed to...
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Animated Progress Bar jQuery plugin
I developed this Animated Progress Bar jQuery plugin to simplify adding an animated bar graph on a website. Some example scenarios where a tool like this is useful: Signatures collected Funds /...
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New Blog Design
I finally got around to designing and developing a new blog design! The blog design mimics my current website but differs slightly. The blog uses WordPress and the design is responsive, which means...
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Tangerine bank rebrand
I am happy to have been one of the few front-end developers who had the opportunity to contribute to the ING Direct–Tangerine rebrand project. My role on the project was front-end developer,...
View ArticleWeb Hosting recommendations
So you want a website, but what about web hosting? There are plenty of options to choose from when deciding how to host your website. This page should be informative and provide you with some basic...
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Caching in WordPress: Caching and cache busting
There are plenty of options for developers and clients in terms of caching in WordPress. You may have heard of popular caching plugins like W3 Total Cache, CDNs like Cloud Flare, or managed hosting...
View ArticleUsing Vagrant with WordPress
Prerequisites for using Vagrant and WordPress Before beginning, you will need to have the following installed: VirtualBox v5.0 Vagrant Vagrant WordPress configuration We will be using a tool called...
View Articledev domain extension for local development
I like using a dev domain extension for some of my websites in local development. When doing local development using Vagrant, you often have to configure specific IP addresses for your website or...
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Using an SSL certificate on Vagrant for local development in Google Chrome
Two words: SSL Chrome! Some recent changes with Chrome can cause breaking changes in local development environments. Problem #1: the website doesn’t load First problem? – Chrome updated itself and now...
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