File under ‘A Learning Experience’
I thought that only software had feature creep. Turns out any project can grow out of control leaving one moaning, "this is not what I signed up for!" I agreed to design and produce a [...]
February 2013
November 2017
Avada and WP 4.9
I'm getting more annoyed with 4.9 on the one site I updated... it warns you about editing your child theme saying that you really shouldn't edit the core file and should use a child theme. [...]
July 2013
Do NOT use i-Page for hosting
I'm seeing ads everywhere for iPage hosting and it is driving me absolutely crazy. I am running a shopping cart system by Woo Commerce and the client wants to /needs to use Fed Ex. I [...]
October 2017
Multiple Payment Methods with Gravity Forms
Let's say you want to allow people to buy products or services but your offerings don't need a full-on ecommerce solution. You can list your products or services in a form and assign a price. You [...]
September 2012
WordPress and excessive p tags
I am attempting once again to use the GetShopped! gold cart for a shopping cart. This one is relatively simple because there are only two product types; cds and mp3 downloads. Simple. Right. I just [...]
May 2017
pmoore525@gmail.com is a fraud
PLEASE REPORT ANY EMAILS FROM THIS PERSON AS ABUSE at https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse If you are an artist and get an email from "Paul Moore" who is looking to buy something for his love, his wife, etc, [...]
March 2012
Free or Cheap Shopping Cart Software
I've worked with several free or low-cost e-commerce shopping carts. Here is my review of several of them. This is from a designer's perspective, as one who can hack a bit of code, but not [...]
April 2017
A Fix for the Ineffective Avada Child Theme Style Sheet
Update 1/31/2018: I finally got it worked out... at least for now, with help from a support ticket at Avada. The Dynamic js/css settings need to be set to compile the js, and set the [...]
August 2012
Windows Live Mail, Office 365 Exchange, Sky Drive, Plesk: Kill them all.
Lately I've been spending less time coding and designing web sites and more time troubleshooting Microsoft products. It wouldn't be so bad except that there are so many other options available that just plain WORK [...]
August 2016
Avada and the Ever Changing Header: text instead of a logo.
Sometimes you just want to change something really simple, or at least, it used to be really really simple, back in the old days where you just plopped your html into a file, renamed it [...]