Avada and the Ever Changing Header: text instead of a logo.
2020 Update! I had a site that is changing its branding, but not quite yet! I wanted to mock up something on the site with a new logo, and found a way to hide [...]
August 2016
August 2012
The Dead Chicken Instructional Conundrum
It came in conversation to the topic of chickens, since we were sitting in a yard that had a few running around, and others in the group also had chickens in their yards. The "beer [...]
April 2016
Website Crimes With WordPress Images (or, five most common WordPress image mistakes)
Having worked on a variety of websites for a wide variety of clients and businesses, I often run into the same problems again and again, when business owners are trying to build sites themselves, usually, [...]
July 2015
Plugins Aren’t Always Best
Attempting to add a Wordpress plugin to add some functionality can be a time-consuming task. All I wanted was a simple 'like' button for Facebook. After reviewing the number of installs (but why don't they also [...]
April 2015
Fixing things in WordPress
The search engine is such a great tool. I was having some AJAX seeming problems creating a contact form using Gravity Forms, so I turned off the only new plugin I had installed, one called [...]
November 2014
Gimp vs. Photoshop
I've been helping a business get a more professional looking home page in order to help it grow. One thing I noticed in the header was that the letter-spacing was off. The part that was [...]
Chanticleer Reviews Magazine
Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media has launched its first online magazine. Megabite designed and produced the publication in its entirety using Adobe InDesign and uploaded to Issuu for sharing.
September 2014
Chanticleer Authors Conference
I will be presenting at Chanticleer Authors Conference Sept. 19 and 20 2014 at the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, WA. You can see the schedule here. I will be talking about websites. For the first [...]
July 2014
Fast, Cheap or Beautiful: Pick 2.
The old adage about the three rules of business - fast, cheap, good - pick two, is especially relevant in design. Good takes time, cheap can sometimes be fast if your expectations are low enough, [...]
Contests: Ethically Wrong
The first design contest I ever entered was in college, for the water skiing club. I came up with a nice roundish black and white logo, silhouetting the skier with some spray coming off and [...]