A few years back, I wanted to accomplish a couple of goals. First, I wanted to secure the domain name of my own name. Second, people were asking me for a way to purchase some of my photos. This led to the birth of the Foster's Photos Web site. Now that time has...
I think every Web designer is guilty of uploading an image that is a high resolution than what is needed on a Web site. Yes, I've done it more times that I can count. There are some mistakes that are far more costly than others. Today I'm going to go over just...
The Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce recently held a beach party for local businesses. Unleashed was happy to be one of the featured businesses at the event. We may have gone a bit overboard with flamingos, but we wanted to go along with the beach theme as...
I know that when some people hear the GoDaddy name that it doesn't always bring a positive response. It could be the risque commercials of the past or maybe it was an experience with their products or services. Yes, GoDaddy is aware that some have a less than...
While the vast majority of our loyal readers are spread all over the globe, we are very active in our local communities of Cave Creek and Carefree. A fellow member of our Chamber of Commerce manages the local Parkbench site and I recently sat down with her for an...
WordPress is a very popular platform for Web sites with nearly 28% (and growing) of all sites built on the WordPress platform. This also means it provides the biggest target for the bad guys. Occasionally they will target a specific site, but that is fairly rare....
If you only have a single product to display on your Web site for sale, you can have images at whatever size and aspect ratio that you want. Even with only a couple, you have flexibility. But with more images, it is extremely important that all images have...
On February 7, 2017 I'll be teaching a class where I build a live WordPress Web site as part of the 2017 International Awards & Personalization Expo. I'll admit it is a bit scary to build a site live, in front of a group of people. Why? Because it relies...
As the calendar rolled over to the year 2014, there was only one active Web site for us here at Unleashed. Yes, we technically had a second site but it simply pointed back to the main site. All of the products, services and content were stored on the unleash.com...
I love designing Web sites for clients. My favorite type of sites are e-commerce because I can see that the clients are selling products or services. Want to know more about the service? Go to our e-commerce page. In most cases, we use a shopping cart named...
Loyal readers are well aware that I do most of my Web design using WordPress these days. It definitely provides a lot of tools to make site design more WYSIWYG. Yet there are still many times that code needs to be edited to get things just right. For that, a good...
Recently I met with a local business in hopes of helping them with their Web site or other online content. While they were interested in having my help, there was nothing I could do because a former friend had taken their accounts hostage. First I mentioned that...
As a Web designer, I'm constantly talking with clients and potential clients who haven't updated their sites in years. Sometimes it extends beyond a decade. Think about your own business and ask yourself if there have been changes in the last decade? What about the...
A few days ago, Jeff Harrison wrote a post entitled Scaled bitmaps on websites = blurry images. If at all possible, we should avoid using a bitmap on a Web site that is scaled. Yet there are times you can't avoid it when designing a responsive Web site. Let's look...
Even a large entity such as the U.S. Postal Service can have graphics that are sub-optimal. Compare the difference for how the logo appears as of July 1/2016, relative to how it should look: Why does it look blurry? The logo is a fixed dimension PNG file, but it's...
If you have a Web site, there can be several different products involved. Those products could all be managed in the same place or in different places. So let's go over a few of the major items and talk about keeping them updated and accessible. A web site with a...
Building a great Web site in a minimal amount of time is always the goal. I become a bigger fan of using WordPress every day that I use it and it is important to Choose the Perfect WordPress Theme. One of my favorite themes is Divi because it is both powerful and...
There are many factors involved in setting up a successful e-commerce Web site. I put together a detailed post on our Web Design Solutions Unleashed site listing many of them. I encourage you all to read Important Decisions When Developing An E-Commerce Web Site...
The folks at Xara are not only keeping up with what Web designers want & need, they're pushing Web design boundaries in all the right ways. The bells & whistles are all there in Xara Web Designer 365 - parallax scrolling effects, sticky elements,...
Yesterday I shared that we are doing some testing of a new mailing service for our newsletters. The post you are reading goes out to two Graphics Unleashed lists. But we also have lists for some of our sister sites. Those lists are relatively new so we don't have...
Last week I wrote how Google Tag Manager Simplifies Code, Speeds Site and the various techniques we used in Shaving 66% Off WordPress Web Site Loading Speed. Sure you can just visit a site yourself as a way to test the speed, but it isn't the most accurate measure....
Loyal readers know that I've really been focused on making our Web sites load faster. First I wrote The Many Elements of Web Site Speed and then Google Tag Manager Simplifies Code, Speeds Site. Now that I've completed a number of tweaks, I want to describe the...
Yesterday I described The Many Elements of Web Site Speed. There are many variables that can be fine tuned to add more speed. Some have a small effect, others have a big effect. Today I want to talk about one change that can simplify maintaining a site while also...
Whether a Web site is fast or slow depends on many different things. I've been very disappointed with the speed of some of our sites lately and I am working on addressing the issues I can change. This is important to those visiting the sites and is also a factor in...
