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Pantone’s “Pantone Connect” and how to get a Free or Pro account
Since I design both print and website projects, at the beginning of any new project, I always begin with my Pantone color book. This enables the client to have a color consistency between their print designs and their website. For years, I used Pantone’s Color...
Preparing to Export and Package Your Theme
Do a Sanity Check and Seek Feedback As you near the end of your theme build, it’s easy to get over-excited and rush straight to the exciting part – putting it on sale. Once I’ve finished, I like to send a preview out to my audience inviting feedback. It’s the final...
SEO Structure
Even if you’re not an SEO hotshot, it’s important to have a really good understanding of Google-friendly page architecture. Once your customer has finished customizing your theme, their thoughts will definitely be turning to SEO and you want to make sure that you...
Best Practices
Create a workflow from the very beginning to protect you and your customer Sticking to legal best practices is incredibly important. If you take a risk with a font, image, or graphic not being properly licensed for distribution, you might find yourself stuck with a...
Nail Your Workflow To Make Repurposing Easy
The perfect home page is your foundation We’re all used to starting every build with the home page. Getting it pixel-perfect is very important because your home page should be the foundation of every other page in your theme. All of the brand elements you are planning...
Where do you start building your first child theme?
Plan your theme first to get a much better end result The biggest piece of advice I can give you is NOT to dive into WordPress, fire up your page builder and start designing. If you skip the vital research and planning steps, you’ll end up with an inconsistent theme...
Making your logo bigger on mobile using Divi Visual Builder
Often, I see questions in different Facebook groups where people asking how to make a logo bigger on mobile in Divi. There are two ways to achieve this: Using CSS; andMaking a custom header using the Visual Builder. For me, I prefer a custom header using Visual...
There are a host of color palette generators out there.
There are about fifteen different color palette generators, but the one provided by Adobe gives you the most options. Starting with the Color Wheel tab, you can rotate through the following: AnalogousMonochromaticTriadComplementarySplit ComplementaryDouble Split...
Finding design inspiration in a book and why Instagram could change your life
On #DesignInspo Fridays I like to share websites I’ve found that have collections of amazing website designs, today I going to recommend a book. I just finished reading, Make Something Good Today, by Ben and Erin Napier of the HGTV shows Home Town and Home Town...
Tools to help make your website ADA compliant
Back in January 2018 in the States, the ADA came out with accessibility guidelines for website design, and the lawsuits began almost immediately. I'm not sure anyone can be 100% compliant, but there are steps you can take in case one day you need to prove you've done...