Journal
Notes on building products and companies: the ideas, the decisions, and what I’m learning along the way.
A home for the extra context, links, and resources behind what I share on social and in videos.
The Button As usual I was working on a project and had to put together a cool little button. The button had a gradient with a hard stop and was angled. See the button in action in the pen below.
Read the entry: CSS only gradient buttonI was working on a project recently and along with a bunch of other cool things, it required a content accordion. Specifically it needed to have 4 different boxes for content that started out as equal widths and when a user hovered over a given box it would expand that box while collapsing the others. […]
Read the entry: A CSS only responsive content accordionMigrating Ghost to a new server is fairly straight forward, and when I needed to move this site to a new server it was all pretty easy to do. However, when I went to write a post and upload an image I ran into an issue. Every time I would try to upload an image […]
Read the entry: Quick Tip: Migrating Ghost to a new server and can’t upload imagesAs a web designer/developer/consultant we are constantly on the look out for that next client. Not only are we always in search of that next paid invoice, but we are always trying to improve the clients that we work with. By improve, I mean that we are looking to work with clients that have projects […]
Read the entry: Up your game as a WordPress consultant with WP ElevationAs a front end developer it seems like we are always trying to find new ways to improve and automate our local workflow. I am sure that you probably use a CSS pre-processor like Sass or Less and may even run a task manager/runner like Grunt or Gulp. These things help our workflow in a […]
Read the entry: Incorporating Anvil for Mac into your workflowIn all of my excitement to get started playing around with Ghost I failed to realize the server understanding needed to get it properly installed and setup. I am not saying that Ghost is terribly difficult to install and setup, but what I found out is that unless things go perfectly with the tutorial you […]
Read the entry: Installing Ghost CMS on your mediatemple DV