How to Remove the Border Around a HubSpot Email Template
Category: Common Questions
HubSpot provides the ability to change common styling used in your email and landing page templates inside your account settings area. But what if you want to have an email template that looks different from your default templates? In this case, you need to override your default settings with your template specific settings. So you […]
3 Ways to Save Money on Google Ads Display Campaigns
Category: Articles
On average, website visitors stay on your site for 15 seconds or less. Remarketing ads give you an opportunity to remind past visitors of pages you want them to see in hopes of continuing the conversation. In running Google Display campaigns I have found some common default settings that can waste a lot of money […]
How to Review a HubSpot Marketplace Template
Category: Common Questions
Here are the steps to review a template in the HubSpot Marketplace Go to the HubSpot Marketplace Click on the Purchased tab Hover over the row of the template you would like to review and click the Actions button Click on Write a review Enter your review with a max of 300 characters and choose […]
What Is the Best Way to Learn Web Development?
Category: Newsletter
Learning Web Development is Like Learning How to Paint Let’s say you wanted to become a painter. Where would you start? How would you feel if your first painting looked like the one below? I believe painting by numbers teaches the mechanics and joy of painting to beginners. It quickly builds confidence. You […]
Web Hosting Options and What I Recommend
Category: Common Questions
It can be hard finding a good web hosting company. I have used some good ones and some really bad ones. Below are my recommendations based on the following criteria. Provide quality customer support Based in the USA. I want my server to be in the same country as my audience to improve the speed […]
What is Visual Hierarchy in Web Design and Why is it Important?
Category: Articles
When designing a page layout it is important to consider the overall visual hierarchy of the page. In other words, what grabs your eye first, second, third? What are the goals of the page and how can you make those goals easier to achieve? Your design can use size, color, position, and proximity to define […]
What are the differences between CSS and SASS and what are its advantages and disadvantages?
Category: Common Questions
Sass stands for syntactically awesome stylesheets. Sass is a scripting language that is compiled into regular CSS. It was created to help writing CSS easier and more efficient. CSS is great but it lacks the ability to do advanced programming and calculations. Sass is CSS with superpowers but browsers like Chrome cannot read Sass files. […]
Take Command of CSS Flexbox
Category: Tutorials
As a kid I loved playing with toy plastic army men. I would line them up and pretend to be in command giving orders to my soldiers in order to defeat the enemy. Since I was in full command, the soldiers would look to me for their orders. Sometimes a hot shot recruit would overstep […]
5 Important Things to Keep in Mind When Making a Responsive Web Design?
Category: Articles
1. Write your CSS mobile first Write as though you are only targeting a mobile device. 2. Work in gradual stages Once the mobile device looks good add styles in media queries for larger viewports in stages working your way to larger sizes. 3. Keep your media queries grouped by component and not in a […]
Why Is Responsive Web Design Good?
Category: Common Questions
I believe responsive web design is good because it solves the mobile friendly website challenge in the least amount of time/cost. One stylesheet for all devices Can be setup by one designer/developer Easy to maintain and update Less expensive – Does not require server side device detection or complicated mobile app programming Does not require […]