Most modern front end tooling offers up all kinds of great features like autosave, hot module reloading, auto refresh. Great tools, I love them. Sometimes these tools can get you into trouble in browserland. Infinite loops, app hanging after a crash, or serious performance hit, whatever. The point is that you need to kill chrome […]
Web Development
XAMPP mod_rewrite | Enable Clean URLS
If you are using XAMPP for development on a CMS or Blogging platform such as WordPress you will probably want to enable clean URLS with XAMPP mod_rewrite. If you found this post, chances are that you know what you are looking for. But, for those of you who don’t know what clean URLS are, imagine […]
Genesis Framework for WordPress by StudioPress Review
The most important component of designing a website is Search Engine Optimization, and the Genesis Framework for WordPress does it well. Where most themes are hacked together with sloppy code, Genesis is run on smart design architecture and state of the art code. The attention to detail that is put into the design of the […]
How to Download a Website with wget
Sometimes, I like to download websites from a users perspective when performing SEO, making performance improvements and for a number of other reasons when working on websites. I love Linux for this task and wget does this really well. All websites are not created equally and there are number of ways to use wget. Here […]
How to Control HTML Code to Reduce Bugs
As I was designing a site the other day, I realized that the way I have been tracking my code is something I should share. Most of the projects I work on involve some sort of conversion to WordPress or other CMS system. Anyone who has ever developed a custom WordPress template from novel HTML, […]