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Meet Gale, our new Executive Assistant
Meet our newest member here at Hooked On Code, Gale Permenter! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gale, and I am the Executive Assistant here at Hooked On Code. I am a HUGE M*A*S*H fan! In my free time I read anything by Louis L'amour, hang out in craft stores,...
Editing the footer copyright text in the Divi Theme
UPDATE: The current version of Divi allows you to change the Footer bar text in the Customizer > Footer. I made a short video update on that functionality here. Divi Booster also has a nifty setting in their Footer settings that allows you to easily insert the...
Mentally Constipated? Sketch.
Starting something is hard. Talking about a great idea or how passionate you are about something, or even when you're going to start and how you're going to start can be fun, exciting, and EASY. But actually starting? Not so much. There's a great book by Jon Acuff...
WooCommerce Place Order not working – Forced HTTPS Error solution
I have a client whose site uses WooCommerce for their shopping cart. After performing a major WooCommerce update, orders would not go through for logged in administrators (which is annoying especially when testing orders). The checkout page looked normal, everything...
Why I Won’t Host or Maintain Your Website
A lot of website developers have their own servers and 'offer' services like hosting your website and maintaining your website for you. Unfortunately, these are not typically discussed as 'options', but are simply part of doing business with the developer. There are a...
An Attitude of Abundance Helps My Business
My mother raised me to have an 'attitude of abundance.' We thought and spoke and operated with a knowing that we not only had enough, but an abundance of whatever we needed. I did not realize how firmly this attitude had become established in me, or how much it...
Featured on An Event Apart Tools & Resources Page
I just got back from An Event Apart in Atlanta, Georgia, where I attended Monday and Tuesday's sessions (February 16-17, 2015) by 12 of the leading minds in the web design and development industry. Ever year I take notes for each session (well, ok, they're more like...
Weird Right Padding Issues with Meta Slider WordPress Plugin?
http://youtu.be/Uk7tLD1MmRg I had an issue today that I thought was worth sharing. I'm using Meta Slider (a free WordPress plugin with a pro upgrade option) for a client's site and noticed something strange when I added the slider shortcode onto a page: there was some...
Magical UX and the Internet of Things by Josh Clark – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
@globalmoxie There has been a lot of fast change over the last few years especially with mobile Touch has been the first input action that's become mature after 30 years of pretty much a keyboard with a mouse dropped in the middle. This is the first of a number of...
Content Amid Chaos by Sara Wachter-Boettcher – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
The Philadelphia Magic Gardens - a good example of Chaos. There is one thing she doesn't love about Philly - the filth. There's lots of finger pointing as to whose filth is covering Philly. The blame starts to smack of racism and classism. There are PSA's to...
