How to Set Up Kinsta Free Website Hosting
In this video, I show you how I figured out how to set up Kinsta’s new free static site hosting. Is it the ultimate guide? Oh, hell no! As a GitHub newb, I barely fumble my way through it — …
Why is Your Website Slow?
I’m a bit of a performance nut — in most cases, it probably goes beyond practicality and I’ve definitely found the point of diminishing returns — but as a naturally competitive person, there’s nothing I love more than beating my …
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The mediocre 5-star BLT
This past weekend we decided to chase the changing leaves west and spend a weekend in the mountains. The drive was a few hours, and if you too have 3 kids you know that can’t possibly done without stopping (several …
WordPress Dashboard Widget Generator
With a little help from my friend ChatGPT, and free hosting from Kinsta, I launched a silly little WordPress Dashboard Widget Generator. It’s just a simple utility that provides you with the PHP you need to create a custom dashboard …
Better Ways to Build Your Website Hero Sections
If you’re not familiar, a page hero is a name we’ve given to, typically, the first section on any given page of your website. At a bare minimum, it usually has the page title or H1 heading, but it can …
Auditing Website Speed & Performance
As a companion to an upcoming video, I wrote a blog post on my strategy for auditing and testing website performance.
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I’ll try to save you a couple hundred dollars
Be honest… how many subscriptions do you have that you haven’t touched in the last 6 months? Most of us will wildly underestimate this number — from both forgetfulness and to avoid the shame. That, of course, is why subscriptions …
5 Free Tools I Can’t Design Websites Without!
Today I’m sharing 5 of my favorite free tools for design! If you have any free tools you love, be sure to share them down in the comments! Icones: https://icones.js.org/ Accessible Color Matrix: https://toolness.github.io/accessible… Closest Accessible Color: https://www.learnui.design/tools/acce… Vivid Gradient …
How to Create a GeneratePress Child Theme
I recently did a livestream where I shared the latest version of my Starter Site and several people commented about me using a GeneratePress child theme. So, today I decided to make a video to show you how you can …
A Fun Redesign for a Friend
I told my buddy Jonathan that I’d take a stab at redesigning the Pie Calendar website, and here’s the original next to my design concept (Figma): Not sure if they’ll use it (or perhaps just parts of it) — but …
