As a business owner you are always looking for ways to save money and make your business more profitable. So using a free generic website template may seem like a great option to save on your bottom line. You put time and energey into the quality of the products and services you provide – wouldn’t… [Read More]
The Squatty Dog
I’d like you to meet a member of my family. She weighs in at less than 15 lbs. She may be small in size, but she thinks she’s as big as a retriever or lab. It’s Nala – The Squatty, Scruffy Dog. Nala is a Jack Russell Terrier that we adopted 5 years ago. She’s… [Read More]
Unique Websites Deserve a Unique Login
After designing and building a custom website, there’s one thing that has always bothered me. It’s that big WordPress W that hits me in the face when I login. It’s just a pet peeve, but for whatever reason, I never bothered to look into changing. Come to find out, it’s super easy and it only… [Read More]
The “ME” In Our Name Really Means YOU
When DesignMe Creative Group first formed, it was meant to be a play on words – Design”ME” a website. Design”ME” a logo – referencing the “ME” as an individual and my (Debbie) home state of Maine (ME). After all these years, as I now have two home states (Arizona and Maine), I have come to… [Read More]
Enqueue CSS2 Google Fonts
You may find that some of the themes you choose call out google fonts in the “old way”, but when you go to grab your fonts, it looks a tad different. One would think it was as simple as adding the “css2” to the front and the new family codes in the middle. That’s not… [Read More]
Behind Your Website
Domain Names and Web Hosting As a website designer and developer, the first questions I ask are “Do you have a domain name, web hosting provider, and SSL.” The clients’ initial reaction is a puzzled look. Many people don’t realize there are several different pieces that, together, make up the way your website works. In… [Read More]
Redirect to the BuddyPress Profile Page
Buddypress doesn’t have an actual “page” for a user profile – it is dynamically created. I looked high and low for an answer and finaly came across this solutions. Thanks to Buddyforms, for this bit of code. Place this into your functions.php file and it will do the trick if you want to add a… [Read More]
I Have a Website – Now What?
Do you remember the last time you updated your website? If not, then this article is for you! An outdated website can be more harmful than not having a website at all. If a visitor lands on your website and sees the News & Events page has things dated 2002, what does that tell them?… [Read More]
“Going Live”
Have you ever wondered what happens after you give your web designer the “OK” to go live? The Technical Stuff DesignME Creative builds the developing website in a subdirectory of your domain – something like yourdomain.com/dev. So the first step is to change the Settings within your WP dashboard and installation url to the real… [Read More]
Insert Soliloquy Shortcode Using Advanced Custom Fields
DesignMe has many clients that want to self-maintain their website. So our development process keeps that in mind by making edits/additions as easy as possible. One way is to use Advanced Custom Fields to place a single line of text that can then be put into a shortcode to create a custom slider. This particular… [Read More]
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