This is a strange XKCD, but also a little bit of fun. The page loads blank with the ability to add up to three grow lights. You can position them on the screen, change the angle of the light, change the light focus (wider and lighter or narrow and brighter). Apparently you can also change… Continue reading XKCD Garden
Category: Writing
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… Continue reading wp-admin redirect loop on https
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… Continue reading Plain White vs Full Bleed Images
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… Continue reading User generated content in a multi platform publishing world
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… Continue reading How to manage future products in Shopify
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… Continue reading Condescending Popups
ARO: native mobile web performance monitoring
Tonight I was privileged to make it to London web performance meet up to catch Doug Sillars @dougsillars talk about native app performance. Doug works at ATT In Seatle and showcased a free app that ATT develop to monitor native web apps…. think webpagetest.org but for native apps. I highly recommend checking it out at http://developer.att.com/ARO
The Shard and the Moon
Last night, christmas eve, we were fortunate to have the clouds disappear and watch the moon rise next to The Shard in London Bridge.
WordPress redirect loop wp-admin changing from http to https
Today I’ve been looking in to updating this site to HTTPS through the use of the free Cloudflare https service available. The thing that I really like about Cloudflare is not only is it free but it is offering you free HTTPS as well as free HTTP2. FREE!!! The free plan is kind of faux… Continue reading WordPress redirect loop wp-admin changing from http to https
Back Pocket Notebooks have arrived!
It’s with huge excitement that I came home yesterday to find all my notebooks sitting in the Studio entrance. It’s take many months but I”m really happy with the results. Next step is to get the sleeves printed and put up the Shopify Store.