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Useful Tools for Web Design and Development

Just a quick posting about some online tools I find cool, useful or use often enough to mention.

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CSS Pattern and Graphic Generators:

CSS, HTML, and General Markup:

If you know of a great addition, drop me a comment!

Basic W3 Total Cache Settings

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W3 Total Cache can be pretty intimidating at first, so I'm going to try to make this easy with a step by step of basic settings. Don't know what W3 Total Cache is? It is a popular WordPress Caching Plugin used to speed up WordPress sites. Why … [Continue reading]

Reverse Menu Sort Order on wp_nav_menu

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Just ran into something where I was using CSS to float wp_nav_menu to the right, so it was displaying in reverse order than what was set in Appearance > Menus. Solution? Add a function to your functions.php to reverse the sort order … [Continue reading]

Setting up MAMP and Dropbox

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It's not very often that I work from just one computer. I have a laptop and a desktop, often switching between the two depending on where I am. I've consistently found an issue where I have to backup the database to Dropbox before I move over to the … [Continue reading]

Positioning a WordPress Sidebar Outside of the Wrapper

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Disclamer: there are better ways to do this, but occasionally you might have to hack something into place to get it working. Instead of having your visitors scroll horizontally to see all your content, because you had to widen the wrapper on your … [Continue reading]