Web Design
10 Things You Can Do to Prepare for Your Web Design Consultation
Investing in a new website is an important decision every business owner faces. Whether you’re creating a website or renovating an existing online presence, it’s an admittedly intimidating process to choose a company with whom you’re placing your trust. The best outcome will see the highest possible return on your investment. And what business owner…
Read MoreHow to keep your development sites from being indexed
This guide will show you how to configure your development site to ensure it is not indexed by Google. If you’re looking to set up a development environment, take a read over our guide here to learn how to do so then come on back here. Why is it important that your development sites not…
Read MoreBeaver Builder 2.0 – A Guide
For each page and post within WordPress you get a basic text editor. It’s much like working within your favourite word processing application: you can write/insert and format your text, insert images and videos very easily! This is often just fine for blog posts and even many pages. However in some cases you want to do more…
Read MoreHow to set your PayPal IPN URL
There’s plenty of guides out there showing how to do this with the old PayPal interface and it seems they all could use some updating! Here’s how to set your IPN URL, as is commonly requested by cart software like WooCommerce. Login to your PayPal account Click here OR click the cog icon in the upper right…
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White Screen of Death: How to Fix it
When attempting to access any given page on your website, you get a blank white screen, when you were expecting the page to load as normal. Occasionally the screen will contain a line or two of text describing an error, but not always. If you’re using WordPress, as of WordPress 5.2 you will likely instead…
Read MoreWhat to do when Thesis (WP Theme) stops generating CSS
This has happened to us a few times, namely every time we migrate a site using Thesis. The problem is that Thesis stores all its CSS (custom, skin, and editor CSS) in the database. It also stores the variables that drive that CSS in the DB. Something about how that data is transferred over when…
Read MoreAdding a fly-in side menu to the BeaverBuilder theme
A few months ago we were provided a design spec for a client site that required a button which, when clicked, would open a ‘fly-in’ menu appearing from the side — in this case the right side of the screen. This guide will show you how to add such a menu to the BeaverBuilder theme,…
Read MoreAdding headings to your menu in WordPress that don’t go to a page
If you’re creating a complex menu in WordPress, you may have come across this problem. WordPress, by default, only wants clickable links in its menu. Sometimes, though, you want a header that exists simply to let people access sub-pages below it. It’s a relatively easy task to do, but how to do it definitely isn’t…
Read MoreOverlapping images when using a content grid?
If you’re seeing overlapping images, or odd grid display issues when using a content grid plugin, look for a plugin that enables lazyload of images and disable it on the page. For example, we use WP Rocket on most of our sites, and while it’s a fantastic caching plugin, occasionally you can run into the…
Read MoreHow to use anchor tags and IDs to scroll, or link to, a certain part of a page
Have you ever clicked on a link which took you to a page, but not to the top? Perhaps it took you to a relevant part of an article, or a certain product section on a website. Have you ever clicked on a menu item and had it, instead of loading a new page, scroll down the…
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