There is a bit of disparity between Umbraco and uCommerce and the way they share (or don’t) assets. The image cropper is by far one of the coolest features of Umbraco and makes responsive image output amazing (especially using Foundation’s Interchange). Natively, of course, uCommerce just uses a media picker. It’s not elegant, and you […]
Read moreUncovering a hack
We occasionally (and more frequently) get calls from people who have hacked sites that we didn’t build or host. If you are in this situation, what to you do? How can you fix it? In no certain order: Contact your host! Most of the time the host has malware detection installed on their server to […]
Read moreHow Variations Work in WooCommerce
So you have a product on your WooCommerce-based site and it’s going to need to allow the customer to choose sizes. Then you have options that affect the price? How do you do that? First off, you want to select “Variable Product” from the “Product Data” dropdown. Simple product is the default output. From there, […]
Read moreImplementing Lazy Load with WooCommerce
Once Lazy Load has been installed, the trick is to get the product thumbnail to display with the Lazy Load data attribute. Rather than editing your template, you can do this with a custom function. We have used this within a site plugin so it isn’t theme dependent (suggested). Here’s an example of it in […]
Read moreDesigning with a Mobile-First Mindset
The greatest benefit to having a mobile-first mindset is you are thinking without the visual bloat. Mobile users want information fast. They don’t want to hunt. When you get to desktop, your UI is already end-focused. An optimized mobile experience will keep users on your site. Would it surprise you, the numbers don’t lie, that a […]
Read moreSetting up Foundation for WordPress
So I’m used to Bootstrap for development and sometimes it just doesn’t offer the functionality I need. I decided to install Foundation for WordPress for a client (DARKOH, you can see the final project here) and see how it goes. Since I don’t have Ruby and my setup is based on Roots, the commands I […]
Read moreShould I Use A Carousel?
Do you really need a carousel? Designers like big/beautiful images and carousels are a nice way of doing that in a premium real-estate area, but stats show only 1-3% ever click and they can get super clunky on mobile. I’m a designer. I am guilty as charged, until I realized these numbers supported a change. […]
Read moreDisable Google Map Scrolling on Page Scroll
How insanely annoying is it to scroll down a page and have your cursor get stuck in the middle of someone’s Google Map, only to discover you can’t scroll down on the page anymore because you are zooming in and out of the map? A handy fix was provided by czerasz on StackOverflow. You click […]
Read moreUgly Bootstrap horizontal scrollbar removal
What happened? You copied the grid structure from Bootstrap and now you have a funky horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of your site. Here are some guides to help you along. Make sure you aren’t encasing a full-width carousel inside of a container. Carousels already have the proper container inside the item div. Don’t encase […]
Read moreBootstrap Feature Panels with Collapse
We were building a service package page using Bootstrap in WordPress for a client and I realized it would be rather extensive without some way to collapse sections. I created a panel cluster with a toggle button that would make the panel collapse and expand on click. Here’s a minimal version of the code. Feel […]
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