Fizz Blog Karma
Posted on September 6th, 2012
In this blog, we will try to give back to the community with hints and tips for web designers and WordPress users. We will cover everything from jQuery, php, HTML & CSS to WordPress theme development & creation, along with some SEO. Blogs have been invaluable to us over the past year or so covering all sorts of diverse subjects, from web design to SEO and back again and it seems right to try to give something back.
Stop Skype Changing Numbers On Your Website Design
Posted on April 30th, 2013
We all know as web designers that we have to do two things when we design a website; make it look nice of course, then try to make it still look nice if the user is using Internet Explorer, and to make it worse, it can change depending on what version the user is using – IE6, IE7, IE8 IE9 or IE10. Microsoft do things “their way” often ignoring convention or the rules universally adopted by others.
And so we come to the annoying problem of Skype rendering the perfectly placed phone number on the site you have just designed in a completely different way to how it was intended to look. Skype (owned by Microsoft) will add its own small Skype button into the mix as well as changing the colour of the telephone number to bright blue. Not good.
Set up a gmail email signature that works well when replying
Posted on January 14th, 2013
If, like me your responses from your various online web contact forms are forwarded to your gmail account for convenience, you may also have set up a gmail account for business as well.
Here’s a simple guide to setting up an email signature for your gmail account that works nicely for sending emails – as well as being in the right place when replying to emails. I’ll also show you how to remove the little line that gmail automatically adds before the signature too.
Unfollow a Facebook Post or Status Update
Posted on October 12th, 2012
Have you ever complimented a friend on a great achievement only to then be notified when all 200 of their other friends decide to do the same thing? Well now you don’t have to read another 200 Facebook comments saying “congratulations!” – though in the typical Facebook way that we’ve all become used to, you might not know the option to unfollow a Facebook post (or unfollow a Facebook status update) even exists…
Photoshop – Graduated Blur Gradient Effect
Posted on October 11th, 2012
Here at Fizz we recently got asked to add a gradient blur to a photo for a website. It’s a simple task once you know how to do it. In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how we did it stage by stage. This is the donor image we are going to use as it has natural depth and foreground interest.
The plan will be to keep the cyclists in pink sharp, but create a natural blurred gradient that starts on the far right, but then ends before it gets to the cyclists we want to remain sharp.
Export Database To New WordPress Host
Posted on September 25th, 2012
You may have come across this error message when trying to import your recently exported wordpress database when moving your WordPress blog to a new hosting provider…
“import #1044 – Access denied for user error”
Disheartening it might be after overcoming the worry of losing all your files, comments and blog posts by managing to update the wp_config file correctly. But this should be relatively simple to overcome.
WordPress Hacked – Tighten Up WordPress Security
Posted on September 16th, 2012
There is a spate of hacking going on right now that affects sites built on a WordPress platform or a Joomla platform. This can be especially devastating for web design companies who we may rely on for SEO & security advice. While I can’t give too much specific advice on Joomla, I can give you some basic advice on tightening up WordPress security.
Javascript / jQuery Menu Button Fade Effect
Posted on September 6th, 2012
Many tutorials for fading buttons with Javascript can be quite long-winded, and when you’re on a bit of a deadline, 3 pages of instruction can be quite daunting! Not to mention the Photoshop tutorials & (often outdated) CSS methods explaining how the fade-in effect buttons are created too. If you like the fading buttons on this site, here’s how we did it..
