Tricks and Tips from the Dragon's Lips
All website owners, web designers and developers should be creating new websites that are housed on a secure (https) web server. This is very important for modern web development best-practices. This was not always the case, however, and there are...
Recently I went through the process of building a new WordPress website for a client, complete with a small eCommerce (store) section. My client was selling books in both a digital and a physical format: certain books were downloadable PDFs,...
I care about my fellow freelancers. It pains me to see so many of us fall victim to the con artists who prey on innocent people who just want to work and earn a living. and frankly I’m fed up....
Pretty much any type of small business, corporation or nonprofit can benefit in so many ways from having a website. There are SO many creative options available to businesses and charities through the use of a website, including oodles and...
The following proposal has been genericized a bit by removing specific names and other sensitive references: Hello [Client Name], My name is [Your Name here] – a web developer and designer residing in the US. I see you are...
I started freelancing about two years ago, and shortly after that I decided to start the process of forming a more formal business. If you have ever freelanced or worked for yourself in any way before, I don’t have to...
Animating CSS is so much fun and there is SO much room for creativity working with this coding technique. Once you understand the basic structure of how animations are set up, you can use that foundation as a stepping-off point...
As I mentioned in another post about creating a CSS box/grid-based photo guessing game, one of the things I love about my profession is the seemingly endless possibilities of what can be done using code, and how it gives me...
Changing the size of your font or website text really should be done using CSS, since the <font> html tag is deprecated/no longer used in the newer version of HTML (HTML5). Using “font” as an actual HTML element is how...
Contrary to what you might hear in the ad campaigns of certain companies, a lot of thought, skill and planning goes into creating a professional logo. I mean a REAL logo. Not one of those designs that you crank out...
