Posts Tagged ‘website’
An exercise in “Show Your Work”
I recently read Austin Kleon’s wonderful book “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered” — which has inspired me to let this unpolished draft website go live. I’ve been planning to redesign my website for years, but I’ve let client projects and other work come first. There were some tangly…
Read MoreShow Your Work – first round of CSS updates
Last week, I created a child theme to prepare the WordPress backend for my style changes. It’s important to create a custom child theme so that if Genesis gets updated in the future, you don’t lose all of your custom code. Today, I created the first draft of a custom header, styled the navigation, adjusted…
Read MoreHow to change your website’s “fav icon”
What’s a fav icon? In your browser bar, there’s a little image next to the URL: This image will also appear in browser tabs and in the bookmarks folder. Customizing it is a nice touch and helps readers find your site easily. The Genesis theme by StudioPress uses a black box with a G…
Read MoreWordPress themes don’t look like you’d expect when you first install them
I spent a lot of time looking for a new baseline template for this site. I love working on the Genesis Framework (created by Genesis theme by StudioPress) and chose to go with the Epik child theme, created by a 3rd party developer. The demo site is gorgeous. Here’s a look at the homepage: And, as…
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