Everything You Need to Know About Websites And Privacy Laws

When it comes to compliance, website developers need to keep their eyes on more than just ADA regulations and Section 508. Privacy laws are a big consideration and decisions on how to build privacy into a website start with architects.  And that’s exactly what website developers (and designers!) are. They build up attractive, functional websites… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Websites And Privacy Laws

How to Maintain the Selected Option On Page Load

Imagine you’re using a <select> element to navigate between pages–ordinarily the select will return to its default option when the page reloads. Today we’ll learn how to maintain the selected option, ensuring that whatever page you’ve selected remains selected even once the new page has been served. To demonstrate it, we’ll use a demo project with… Continue reading How to Maintain the Selected Option On Page Load

How To Influence Your Web Clients To Accept Your Expert Suggestions

July 20, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger You’ve probably had a few web design clients who didn’t see the value in some of your work. Maybe you created a stunning minimal design and they wanted you to increase the size of their logo. Or, perhaps you created a simple web form to capture leads and they… Continue reading How To Influence Your Web Clients To Accept Your Expert Suggestions

How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

Today, WordPress powers 25% of all of the world’s websites, so it’s safe to say that what started as blogging software has grown into something much bigger than its humble origins, and is ready to be used on production-level sites from news portals to complete web applications. With this level of professionalism, new needs arise.  On a personal blog read by… Continue reading How to Use Pantheon to Set Up and Maintain a Production-Safe WordPress Site

How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

An Approach to Geolocal WordPress Sites In order to launch an inexpensive global network of sites run by volunteers that would provide shoppers categorized directories to local stores, I needed to leverage the power of WordPress with some unusual customizations and workarounds. There are a number of approaches to providing local experiences with WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m… Continue reading How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

Maintain Consistency With a Website Style Guide

Creating style guides is fast becoming common practise for web designers, especially when dealing with content heavy sites. With a website style guide, designers are able to set and maintain a look and feel by creating a set of rules which the design follows. The process becomes flexible, easily updateable and consistent. During this tutorial… Continue reading Maintain Consistency With a Website Style Guide