Since earlier this year, I’ve worked with several clients who wanted gold foil text, which I’m fully in support of. Like I mentioned in this post a couple weeks ago, adding texture to your blog or website design is a simple but effective way to make it stand out. Normally when adding textured elements, particularly gold text, I use a… Read More
How to use Font Awesome Icons in WordPress
Apparently, I’m really into writing font-related posts this month! Today I have another one for you involving a web and desktop font that consists of icons and icons only – Font Awesome. When you install Font Awesome, you can place the icons anywhere on your website using HTML and then style them with CSS. You can also download this font to your desktop… Read More
CSS Basics: Borders
Bringing back the CSS Basics series today to talk about a really awesome element of web design – borders! It sounds kinda boring and it can be boring, or it can make all of the difference in your designs. I feel like I am always learning new things about borders and it really all comes from experimenting. If you’re not too… Read More
Quick Guide to HTML Entities
A standard computer keyboard can only get you so far with its boring letters and numbers and select symbols. Just kidding, it’s probably all you really need. But sometimes it’s fun to add extra symbols here and there. I love customizing the arrows at the bottom of my posts or experimenting with different bullet point options. HTML Entities are characters that… Read More
How to Customize Jetpack Sharing Buttons in WordPress
We recently added sharing buttons to the bottom of each post by using the Sharing widget that comes with the Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin. Jetpack gives us the ability to use features from WordPress.com in sites built from WordPress.org (for the rundown of WordPress.com vs. org, click here). WordPress.com is notorious for being very basic and limited. However, it actually has some… Read More
Three Ways to Style Links with CSS
One of my favorite parts of designing blogs is experimenting with different ways of styling links. It totally changes the user experience. Some bloggers use CSS to change the color of links so that people know to click it. Others create full on blog graphics just by adding some coding to their links. I believe that even adding really subtle codes… Read More