I’m launching a new Web Design business today, Fast Fix Web Design. MikeGriffin.me has been good to me and I’m not complaining about business, in general. But I’m getting more requests for fixed price fully customized websites. The majority of the developers in that business do custom themes. I could have gone that…
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GoDaddy Lies
During the past 4 months, every bad experience that I’ve had with clients has been when they have chosen GoDaddy as their host. In particular, their stadard hosting with a WordPress install doesn’t support WordPress Sendmail well. I have reached the point where I tell clients up front – I will not…
Elementor, HTML, PHP, CSS and Competent WordPress Website Development
The Path to Becoming a Top WordPress Developer Recently I’ve been seeing more and more crap from sites that clients bring to me because they are unhappy with them. I am also really tired of the garbage that GoDaddy, Fatcow, Bluehost and others load into WordPress when someone choses their “WordPress Hosting”…
WordPress Designers as Developers
Yes! I’m a Great WordPress Designer! Sometimes a blog post is difficult to write because I don’t want to offend anyone. The last several months I’ve been supporting some WordPress site “designers”. I already made a post about WordPress “Developers” where both of the sites I reference talk about “designers”, people…
Chicago Personal Injury Attorneys – Cooperative Beautiful Website Design
The Beauty of Client-Developer Cooperation WordPress Website Development My client,Goldstein Bender & Romanoff, finally went live with one of my favorite website design and build projects. It is one of my favorites because it was really excellent collaboration from start to finish but especially on the color palette and image…
Best In Class WordPress Developer
The one thing that using Elementor has done for me is expose me to interesting comments, posts, questions and answers from the different kinds of WordPress Developers. There is no generally accepted differentiation but the five different types of WordPress Developers outlined in this article or the 7 different types outlined in that…
Twas brillig and the slithy toves – Crazy WordPress Designers
Recently I’ve been amused by the difficulty many WordPress users, often people who make money creating sites, have with “fixing” stuff that isn’t quite right with Elementor. The beauty, to me, of Elementor is that it is heavily CSS dependent. The vast majority of the “CSS” is created in the background for…
Using Elementor When WordPress Removes the Page Slug from the URL
***UPDATE 8.23.16: This is not a general phenomenon. There are only some hosting site configurations that do not allow Elementor to find the static front page for editing. If you encounter this, you will need to switch off the static front page in the Customizer. Then you can edit the page you created…
Elementor Template Library – A New Day for *FAST* WordPress Website Development
I’ve been working with the beta version of the Elementor Template Library all weekend. OMG, this is a game changer, for me at least! Let’s talk about it. First, it comes with a ton of ready to use Designer Page Templates. Take a look. Just click on the image to open the popup WordPress Page…
What’s it all about, Devy?
I’m enjoying the power to create beautiful high $ designer look pages with Elementor. But when I read the article New Era For Designers? Why Designers Should Stop Relying on Developers I felt like I was betraying my fellow developers by liking it so much. ? Then I thought back on my last…