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OneSignal

High volume, cross platform push notification delivery. Visit Link

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wp-admin redirect loop on https

Running your website on HTTPS has many benefits which doesn’t stop at being safer, it also allows you to run on http2/SPDY and offers things like Service Workers. I use CloudFlare and their Flexible SSL to secure most of my sites. It’s easy to set up and it costs nothing which is just amazing as […]

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Plain White vs Full Bleed Images

I’ve recently added HotJar to the Back Pocket Notebooks site to see how people are using the site. I was interested in where people were dropping off, how they were getting from the home page to the product page and where they might be getting distracted. The more I looked into it the more I […]

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User generated content in a multi platform publishing world

I’ve just finished reading Snooks article User Generated Content in a Classy World, which is turn was a follow up to Chris Coyiers article Class up Content. Recently I’ve been trying to apply AMP templates to the Responsive Design Knowledge Hub and it’s been a learning curve. The thing I can not fix is the […]

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Toggl

Free Time Tracking Software & App, great for keeping on what you’re doing for which projects and it’s FREE”! Visit Link

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Craft by InVision LABS

Craft is a plugin for Sketch and Photoshop that will pull in real content, both imagery and text, to get away from the Lorem Ipsum and see how your designs will really be used. Visit Link

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How to manage future products in Shopify

As you may be aware of I’ve started selling notebooks online. This started almost a year ago when I had the idea of putting together some notebooks that focused on the three tenets of responsive design… and from that was born the first set of 3 responsive design notebooks. I didn’t just want to create […]

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Planet – by Oskar StÃ¥lberg

A fantastic little WebGL project that allows you to build up your world with oceans, land, hills/mountains and villages. Visit Link

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tota11y – An accessibility visualization toolkit

tota11y is a single JavaScript file that inserts a small button in the bottom corner of your document. (It’s on this very page.) The toolbar consists of several plugins that each provide their own functionality. Many of these plugins “annotate” elements on the page. Sometimes to show their existence, other times to point out when […]

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Condescending Popups

In the past year I’ve been noticing more and more condescending popups being used on websites. I think the pattern of an email popup halfway through an article is evil, regardless of how well they perform (loan sharks make good money, it doesn’t mean it’s a good thing). Somehow website owners have taken the annoying […]