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Captivate 9 Workspace Issues

Captivate 9 Workspace Issues If you're working with Captivate 9 and have had issues with the workspace panels and icons not appearing where they should, then I have a solution for you. You may have noticed that you can't seem to dock panels, or the button bar has disappeared. In fact, most of the Adobe user interface enhancements that you're used to just don't seem to work the way that they should. I guess you'd probably re-boot Captivate, or run it in Administrator mode. Possibly even re-boot your operating system. The problem is that Captivate's Preferences have somehow become [...]

Callalily Luxury E-commerce Website

Callalily Luxury E-commerce Website   When we were asked by US-based Callalily Luxury to build a website to showcase and sell luxury skincare products, we were initially overwhelmed by the requirements. The site required a straightforward secure e-commerce platform, as well as a tiered wholesale membership system with options for all tiers to be able to bulk-order. In addition, we also had to integrate a membership rewards system that hooked up with social media - in other words, ant 'likes' or 'shares' or 'comments' on social media would earn the member points that could be redeemed by discounts against product purchases. [...]

Pronto On Flinders Restaurant Website

Pronto On Flinders Restaurant Website   I've been buying my coffee twice a day at Pronto On Flinders for the last few years, and because I'm such a coffee nut, I've been doing it because Ele and his team simply make the best coffee in Melbourne. I know that's only an opinion, but they make it just the way I like it. Consistently. Somehow the topic of websites came up in conversation, and before I knew it, Ele was asking me to build a site for him. Not only did he want the standard type of restaurant content - menus, [...]

Swimwell E-commerce Website

Swimwell E-commerce Website From the most basic beginnings of helping someone expunge their fear of swimming, to dealing with open water situations, and  to fine tuning swimming strokes to transfer every ounce of effort into comfortable speed, Swimwell have a programme for you! Peter Hendriks is the kind of swimming coach everyone should have at some time during their lives. He takes small groups of people through every phase of the process, with a conscientious and hands-on approach to helping people be the best swimmer they can be. He uses a mixture of tried-and-true techniques along with the latest methodologies [...]

CSS media breakpoints

CSS media breakpoints cheatsheet I get asked quite frequently for CSS media breakpoints, and although this list is probably far more than you would ever use in a production environment, it's useful to have as a reference for those special times when you want something pixel-perfect. Personally, I'm of the opinion that it's pointless to develop a website that's not responsive - ie a website that uses media queries to rearrange layouts when the viewport changes. Not only will multiple users with various-sized devices be able to read the content more clearly, but search engines are more savvy these days [...]

Planning a website

Planning a website - a workflow-based approach Here's another in the Wordpress Tips and Tricks series - this one's about planning a website. It's not a geek-level post, but more aimed at people who might not necessarily be web developers, IT professionals or nerdy geeks, but perhaps more like business owners or people who have been tasked with creating a website from scratch. Before I start teaching a class on a particular topic, I always ask the same question of my students: "Where do you want to go?". I usually follow up with statements that suggest that the journey is [...]

Useful WordPress Administrator Plugins

Useful Wordpress Administrator Plugins. Here's one more in the Wordpress Tips and Tricks series. This one focuses on plugins that make your life easy. Easy because they allow you to access and control your content without getting click-happy. I'll be making a few more posts on wordpress administrator plugins. This post deals with Page Management, Code Editing and Member Management. Page Management Admin Menu Tree Page View : Free The Admin Menu Tree Page View is one of those wordpress administrator plugins that I just couldn't do without - it adds a page tree to all [...]

Use JQuery with a Child Theme in WordPress

How to Use JQuery with a Child Theme in Wordpress. Yet another instalment in our free Tips and Tricks library. There are many situations within a Wordpress website environment when you might want to hook up with a Javascript function to perform a particular function. For instance: Validating form variables locally before posting to the server or adding to database. Performing calculations. Using JQuery to control CSS to customise page layout. This example show you how to: Download the JQuery Library Use JQuery with a Child Theme. Enqueue Scripts. Create a JQuery function and use it. Disclaimer: The best [...]

HTML Framer Virus

HTML Framer Virus in Wordpress. Hi folks. As promised, here's another in a series of tips and tricks. This one is about how to go about a removing the HTML Framer Virus from a Wordpress installation. I know I promised to cover installation of Wordpress on a live server in this post, but a recent hack on a client's site prompted me to address this issue first. What is the HTML Framer Virus? Well firstly, it's a royal pain in the rear end! After that, it's a malicious chunk of code that infects your theme's header.php file. Essentially, it inserts itself [...]

WordPress Installation

Wordpress Installation on Mac and Windows Hi folks. As promised, here's another in a series of tips and tricks. This one is about how to go about a Wordpress installation. On Mac or Windows. If you've followed the previous post, you'll already know how to install a local (on your own machine) server. If you want to do a Wordpress installation on your existing ISP's (Internet Service Provider's) server, hang tight - I'll cover that in the next post. Why would you want to install Wordpress as your preferred Content Management System? First of all, some statistics (note: probably by the time I'm [...]

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