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Do you have a life list? If not, you should. A life list (sometimes called a bucket list) is a great way to instantly inject purpose and meaning into your life. If you are honest with yourself, then you can think back to the last time you were in a rut. Feeling stuck in life … Continued
I have always enjoyed reading, I have just never been disciplined. When you attend college you are assigned a lot of reading. To be honest, there is no way someone could read all of that. Much less retain it and store it in their long term memory. College learning is like learning in a bubble. … Continued
Team Treehouse is an online education subscription that teaches a wide variety of web related skills and technologies. Treehouse courses cover everything from front end development, back end development, design, and even starting your own business. I have tried many other code schools but I am a big fan of Treehouse for a couple reasons: … Continued
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Before/After If you are using WooThemes’ WooComerce plugin to create an ecommerce site then chances are you need to align the bottoms to make the columns look a little better. Unfortunately there is not a one size fits all solution. There are a couple variables that could cause this solution not to work for your theme. However, … Continued
For the longest time I have struggled with getting my Foundation top-bar to overlay a full width image, think hero image. The biggest problem is making it work on the home page and then have different styles on the inner pages. The results The problem If you have a transparent background and your <body> is … Continued
If you blog there is a good chance you use featured images. Especially if you blog with WordPress. The benefits of having a blog featured image are they make your article look nice, and they give the search engines more information about your article. Google has made it clear that user experience is becoming a … Continued
I have a tough time with javascript, I don’t know what it is but I cannot get it to work as easily as HTML and CSS. However, I have found a great write up from Florence W Deems that I have altered and it works perfectly. Before we dive into the code, I have noticed … Continued
Seems pretty straight forward. I just needed to save 3 pages from a 41 page pdf document. In this post I will show you how to save one page of a pdf. TL;DR if you are using Mac, just open the PDF if Preview.app and drag the page you want to your desktop I started … Continued
I have heard online marketers talking about Google Tag Manager (GTM from here on out) for some time now. I took another look about a month ago and was still unconvinced if it made sense for this blog. The use case seems geared towards large websites with numerous departments managing content, code, and other website activities. … Continued
The title is kind of misleading but whatever, got ya in here so real quick I will tell you what I found and then you can decide if its worth your time. If you are a successful marketer this probably isn’t new or thought provoking so go ahead and bounce outta here. If you are … Continued
The top 5 most important google analytics reports Okay maybe I lied. It is nearly impossible to assume that all Analytics users are going to need the same reports. Or find certain reports more valuable then others. I mean an e-commerce site has a very different way of using their website then a blog about … Continued