We live in the age of options. The grocery store has an entire aisle of cereals. Phones come in multiple shades of black. And within 5 seconds anyone with a smartphone can pull up a list of all the restaurants around them. Life as a human has never been better…

I’ve been using Google Fi (previously Project Fi) for a few years now and it’s excellent but using it with Google Voice is tricky. This seems odd at first because you’d think two Google services would play well together, but they don’t for technical reasons that basically amount to “they’re…

Are you using Wordpress and Timber to build a site? Need to replace the default search form? Here’s how. Step 1: searchform.php Create a file called searchform.php in your theme and put this in it: <?php $context = Timber::get_context(); $site = new TimberSite(); Timber::render( 'searchform.twig', $context ); ?> $site = new TimberSite(); allows…

There are plenty of great lightbox plugins out there, but you can easily make your own lightbox gallery using Bootstrap. No custom JS needed! All you have to do is add a few data attributes to your markup. Here’s an example in Codepen. Read on for a step-by-step. Step 1: create your gallery. This is…

About web design, not anything meaningful. My sister is interested in web design/development and she recently sent me a bunch of questions about my experience. It struck me as good content so here it is. You’re a front end, right? Mostly, but I also do a lot of templating. Depends on the platform that’s used…

AKA the Astra+Elementor Method. UPDATE #2: since writing this, Elementor has added a Theme Builder. It’s a very powerful system that lets you natively use Elementor to build the header, footer, and various page templates. There’s no longer any need for the Header Footer Elementor plugin mentioned below. UPDATE #1…

Just kidding, I don’t even remember what the 7th one is. Anyway, It’s been about a year since I quit my job to do independent web design and development. And that year has been one heck of a learning process, which I have been documenting in part with a growing…

I recently spent an entire day getting Git to work with my Media Temple Grid server, so I’m posting instructions here in case someone else runs into the same issues (read: I want to make myself feel like I didn’t waste 8 hrs of my life). The instructions below are…

I’ve heard a lot about this place over the past couple years, and I finally got to see it for myself. 125,000 acres of gorgeous scenery surrounding the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. …