Web Design Lab

Paula is the best… The designer needs to be ever present because, inevitably, at some side meeting, something will be suggested that will totally destroy the form of the logo… The smart way to disable your sidebar If you find yourself making a new WordPress template for pages that are identical to others on your site but just don’t have a sidebar, consider this technique instead which lets you turn the sidebar off selectively on a page by page basis. WordPress sub-pages disappeared We just got a call from one of our clients who couldn’t get to any of the sub-pages on her site, but her home page was still up. Luckily we have run into this in the past, it’s something that happens whenever we migrate a WordPress site so we knew how to fix it. The mother of all WordPress body tags It took us a long time to perfect this gorgeous body tag, it includes everything you’d want as a front end developer. Server & Domain Name Transfer Guide mx records, nameservers, imap mailboxes… Is your head spinning? Server transfers are THE most frustrating thing a web designer deals with. I say this because when things go wrong with a transfer, it gets ugly, either your client’s email goes down or their website does, or both… so there’s a lot riding on YOU doing everything right… WordPress.com to Self-hosted Migration There are a lot of instructions on line regarding blog migration from Wordpress.com to your own self-hosted wordpress site. These instructions are based on our experience trying to follow those instructions and have a few important steps that we figured out on our own. Typepad to WordPress Migration This is a collection of instructions we have found on different websites and hopefully will make your migration a little easier than ours was. Browser Specific Stylesheets It’s unfortunate, but all browsers don’t use the same rendering engines to show web pages. This means that the same combination of HTML and CSS can look different on different browsers. Figuring out how to make your site look the same on all browsers is a big part of web design. Apache, PHP & vhosts Apache configuration is one of the stumbling blocks that keeps a lot of web designers from using programming languages like PHP. This page is geared toward web designers with little to no previous knowledge of how to use terminal or configure Apache. Speed up your site Learn about how to make your website faster.