Writings
The Blog
Articles about design and UX, Sass, development, web performance, WordPress, and project management.
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5 Tips for Crafting Better Responsive Websites
Crafting a responsive website that offers a great user experience is challenging. Level up your next RWD site by sharing these five tips with your team.
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Working with the MailChimp API
In this article, I walk through how to create a simple, custom email signup form for your website using the MailChimp API.
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Leading CMS Training for Clients
Follow these tips to lead more effective training sessions and help your clients become masters of their sites' content management systems.
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JavaScript Partials with Gulp
Learn how I separate out my JavaScript into partials similar to Sass and concatenate them with other third-party scripts using Gulp.
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Tips for Working with a Development Environment
In this article, I provide a few tips for working between a development environment and your production site.
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Responsive Websites and the Internet of Things
It’s impossible to predict all of the crazy, new technology that the future will hold, but we can take a few steps to better prepare our websites for them.
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Front-End Style Guides with Handlebars
Looking for a better way to build static style guides for front-end development? Handlebars.JS might be the solution for you.
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A Stellar Sass Map for z-index
In this article, I showcase how I manage the z-index stack in my projects using a Sass map based on the planets in our solar system.
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Small Considerations for More Accessible Websites
Accessibility can seem like a daunting task, but with even a few small considerations, you can start building better, more accessible websites.
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WordPress Development Gotchas: Volume I
A collection of WordPress theme development gotchas, including the incorrect year displaying in the footer, custom post types not showing up, and uploaded images not working on secure sites.
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Maintaining Your Content in WordPress
WordPress is a great platform, but without proper content maintenance, your site can quickly become difficult to maintain. Learn more about the best practices to keep your content clean and free of issues.
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A Look at Foundation for Emails 2
An overview of the features for ZURB's Foundation for Emails 2, a responsive HTML email development framework.
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Content-Aware CTA
Learn how to create a content-aware call-to-action that fills any remaining space in a grid.
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Considerations When Adding a Blog
Creating a blog for your website or brand can be a large endeavor. Learn more about what to consider before jumping in.
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Designing for Fluid Content
Live content on the web is never as perfect as a design with lorem ipsum. Learn more about designing with fluid, changing content in mind.
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A Guide to Hero Images
There are a lot of different ways to code hero images. Learn which method is best for each situation, along with best practices for implementation.
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The Ultimate Media Query Mixin
In this article, I cover the Sass mixin I use for all of my media query needs, as well as the pros and cons to using it.
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Getting Started with Web Performance
Let's talk about web performance. In this article I discuss what it is, how it's measured, and how we can improve it.
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Working with Gulp
In this article, I discuss how to use the JavaScript task runner, Gulp, and its plugins, and provide an example gulpfile and other code snippets.
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An Introduction to Sass
In this article, I cover the basics of Sass, how it's compiled into CSS, and where to learn more about all the awesome capabilities it has.
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The New Creative Anchor
Welcome to the latest rendition of Creative Anchor, my portfolio site and blog. Be sure to check out the pattern library and source code.