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Accessibility Checking
Resources for checking out your site’s accessibility. Lighthouse also provides some checking, but I have a feeling these are a little more robust: https://www.ssa.gov/accessibility/andi/help/install.html https://wave.webaim.org/
Read MoreFilter Myself from Analytics Without Using My IP Address
This should filter out yourself — you’ll need to visit the link in step 9 to start, but it looks like it sets a cookie, so after visiting you should just be able to go to your normal url and still not be counted. Of course if you clear your cookies, you’ll need to visit […]
Read MoreImporting Large MySQL Files into PHPMyAdmin
The default file size for uploading mysql dump files into PHPmyadmin is around 2mb. I needed to upload a 160mb file. How to do it? 1. Increase the maximum execution time for phpmyadmin: I use xampp, so I just had to find the config.default.php file, which for me was located in xampp/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php. I then searched […]
Read MoreCommunicating Website Design to Developers
Where we’ve gone recently as an industry is to develop overly-featured and unnecessary products for design…
Read MoreFlatten a WordPress Website to HTML and CSS
I recently inherited a whole bunch of wordpress websites for one of my clients — in fact I think one of the first times it dawned on me that I would have to start working with these sites is when one of them got hacked and I got the call to see what I could […]
Read MoreDesigners Should Just Learn to Code
There is an ever-increasing number of web prototyping tools out there. From Adobe XD, to Invision, to Figma. And the number of apps within this niche seems to grow daily. Every posting for a potential project seems to list a need for knowing one, or a couple of these…
Read MoreAdding PDF Files to Shopify Pages
I’ve had to add pdf files to pages within the shopify platform several times now, and I always seem to forget how to do it. I generally don’t have a problem uploading them (if I’m going through the edit template area), but I can never figure out how to get the URL for the PDF […]
Read MoreOn-Page SEO Checklist
Content is of high quality, aim for main content to be at least 500 words Keywords included in page title (meta title tag) Keywords located in page url Keywords included in page headline (h1 tag) Keywords included in at least one h2 tag Keywords repeated 3-6 times within the body text All images have alt […]
Read MoreReference a Variable Outside of a Handlebars Each Loop
Once within an Handlebars each loop, you can no longer just reference a variable that is outside the loop. In the example below, the first ‘ParentVariable’ will render correctly, but the one within the “each” loop won’t. {{ParentVariable}} {{#each Users}} {{ParentVariable}} {{/each}} To use the variable within the “each” block, you’ll need to add a […]
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