Often times I have to resize a TON of images for image galleries and they have to have some consistency. Ideally, I try to keep the image width consistent. Bulk Resize Photos makes the process so much easier than it used to be. They claim to be able to process 150 photos in under 60 seconds […]
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For me, Website Design and Graphic Design go hand in hand. I’m always searching for design elements to use on websites, logos, print materials etc. These design elements can come in many forms, but the most basic is the ICON. My favorite place to get icons is a website called Noun Project. I have had
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May your New Year be filled with seasons of hope, love, and joy. Happy New Year from Brian Houdek Web Design!
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May this Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in 2019.
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Today I upgraded all forms on my clients websites with Google reCAPTCHA v3. If you aren’t familiar with reCAPTCHA it’s a tool to help prevent form spam by either having users type displayed text into a box (reCAPTCHA v1), check a box (reCAPTCHA v2), or now with reCAPTCHA v3… NOTHING! reCAPTCHA v3 can detect abusive traffic on your
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Google Analytics is a free tool offered by Google to help you analyze your website traffic. Google Analytics gives you a short piece of code to place on your website that records various activities of your users when they visit your website. Things such as age, gender, interests, which pages they visit, how long they
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I don’t usually post about WordPress updates since they’re released a few times a year and are typically minor updates. However, WordPress 5.0 is the biggest update/change WordPress has released in a long time. Good news if you’re my client – I upgraded every website I manage within the first hour WordPress 5.0 was released!
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Recently I have implemented another layer of protection for my clients websites, backing up everything with Amazon S3 Cloud storage. My hosting provider Namecheap has a 99.9% guaranteed uptime. The longest any of my websites has been down was roughly one hour over the past 5 years. In addition to this Namecheap has automated backups for all
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Michael F. Frain is a painter in Naperville, IL and the owner of Elan Creations. Michael and his wife Patti approached me looking to start a business. I designed their logo, created business cards and designed a great eCommerce website for them. The website is based on the WooCommerce platform. The front page of the website
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Do you know what a Favicon is? If you Google this search phrase Google will say “an icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser’s address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list.” That sounds confusing but it’s really simple. Depending on the browser you’re using look
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