Backup Buddy on GoDaddy hosting

So I have a few hosting accounts with various companies. Plus I have had many clients with all kinds of hosting accounts. I do love GoDaddy's customer support, and their hosting is generally a little more affordable than most as they are consistently running specials. But the one bad thing is that Backup Buddy doesn't [...]

Backup Buddy on GoDaddy hosting

Cloak Front End Email v1.3

Cloak Front End Email just got better! You can now have multiple email addresses to display on the front end of your website and the plugin will cloak them and display them via javascript. It’s a super simple admin interface.

How to add your email via shortcode

Once you added the custom email in the settings page all you have to do is copy the short code it gives you above the field and use that in your posts, pages or widgets. Keep your front end email safe with cloak front end email plugin. Now detects PhantomJs and SlimmerJs bots to help protect against headless browsers as well.

Cloak front end email is by webbernaut, a Dallas WordPress Developer.

Cloak Front End Email v1.3 – WordPress Plugin

Cloak Front End Email v1.3 Cloak Front End Email just got better! You can now have multiple email addresses to display on the front end of your website and the plugin will cloak them and display them via javascript. It’s a super simple admin interface.   How to add your email via shortcode Once you […]

Cloak Front End Email v1.3 – WordPress Plugin

2016 Wix.com Review

On October 14, 2015 Search Engine Land wrote an article that Google had dropped Wix.com pages out of their index. Google officially confirmed that they were working on getting Wix sites back into their search engine. This is no surprise, I have been saying this back in May 2012 blog post about how Wix sucks for a […]

2016 Wix.com Review

Searching For UI Design Inspiration? Here Are A Few Concepts

App designers are in high demand at the moment and there are a lot of design principles that you need to know as a UI designer in order to stay competitive.

Besides the obvious knowledge that you need to have about UI, UX, IxD and other acronyms, you also need to be inspired to deliver a modern project.

No client wants an app that looks like the first ones made for iPhone 4. Well, there are a few who want that, but we won’t cover that subject now.

Clients want modern looking apps. While the efficiency of an app is guaranteed by the knowledge you have of user interface design, user experience and usability, the modern design look of your apps depends on your imagination and, mostly, on your inspiration.

This is why in this article I’ve gathered beautiful and eye candy user interfaces for your inspiration.

Music App exploration

Social calendar app mobile

Livo UI Kit

Financial Management App (Animation Concept)

SneakerUI

Easy way to buy tickets

Photo Messaging App — Design Concept

Skydeck App

Responsive Mobile Interface Online Store

Event App Concept

Events App

Goskip iOS App

Event App

Multimedia app screens

Thai Airways Ticket Redesign

Travel iOS App

Account feed app mobile

Watches App

Marline

Weather iPhone App

Calendar App

SFa Day Dashboard

Profile Anaylitics – Blu

Foodly Shopping Cart

News App

Contact Form 7 – Select drop down dates format

Contact Form 7 is great, but the format is slightly different than traditional forms. They wrap everything in quotes and it runs horizontal. So when it comes to dates, it can be quite tedious adding all that info in a format that isn’t easily accessible through a Google Search. In case you don’t want the datepicker and want to use a more traditional drop down for Month, Day, Year.

Here is a quick code to pop into Contact form 7. There are tons of code snippets for the traditional select drop down in HTML for dates but I didn’t find any out there when I was searching for Contact form 7’s format. Hopefully you will find this useful!

[select* menu-month "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June" "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December"][select* menu-day "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23" "24" "25" "26" "27" "28" "29" "30" "31"][select* menu-year "2015" "2016" "2017" "2018" "2019" "2020"]

Contact Form 7 – Select drop down dates format

How to enable explicit_defaults_for_timestamp?

After upgrading my xampp with mysql to 5.6 I started getting an error when creating a new database. I looked everywhere for the answer. They kept saying put explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1 but it wasn’t working. Turns out you have to put it in the right spot!

Open your my.ini file, present at “C:\xampp\mysql\bin”, find “[mysqld]” (without quotes) in next line add explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1 and then save the changes.

How to enable explicit_defaults_for_timestamp?

What you should know about Email Marketing

Often times businesses will procrastinate how to start and strategize their email marketing efforts. Doing email marketing yourself can be hard. It is also more time consuming due to the content editing process. Unless you’re an salesman creating a informational looking email campagin can take patience to complete. And as most of us know, hours is proceeds.

So what are the perks of using and Email Marketing Business? Well, there are several. First, ISP relations. Second, ISP bulk mailing. Third, email creation software. Let’s start with ISP relations. Most email marketing businesses have a select team whose job it is to monitor the new Can Spam Act Guidelines and comply to those guidelines . This is something you're businesses will not have to think about in regards to your emails, because your email marketing business will be doing that for you're company. They are also dedicated if for some reason an ISP bars a domain. For instance, Yahoo pauses a domain from your email marketing group, the ISP conformity group will work soley with that ISP to get that domain lifted from the blocked list, thus lifting your ban and getting your messages back into the inbox.  

ISP Bulk Mailing is another good benefit you get by utilizing an email marketing company. Most spammers will mass send off of a single ISP, one time. This is a red flag for ISP monitoring groups in monitoring what may or may not be spam. Using an email marketing service, you get the benefit of stable bulk emails going to the many ISP company. This builds up credit with the ISP businesses and allows for less halted mail if suspected emails are identified for review. In addition, a lot of groups will use combined ISP’s to process mail. What this does is put you in consistent, verified ISP databases which will continue to grow your reputation as well as the email marketing company you are using.

Lastly, distribution software. As stated above, writing an email can be time consuming. It takes a lot less time if you’re using a group that provides a basic shell and template. Throw in the bells and whistles of social media, sharing, videos, image libraries, and you have a one stop shop for your email marketing. As you get the hang of using the software, you will become more versatile, and effective at developing your emails. Contemplating is a productive benefit when it comes to creating your email. This will allow your department the time to propose the options, and finesse your email to best represent your marketing plan, by becoming familiar with your email creation software.

Email marketing can be done on your own. Plenty of businesses do it, but the most profitable way to drive your efforts is to plan and purchase a great email marketing business that aligns for you. Knowing what they present in way of templates, pricing, tracking and reporting is the difference between giving out your business information on a napkin, or handing over a highly polished business card. Take your time, research, and try out a few options. You’ll find one that works for you're group.

Checkout our pick: Responsive Web Design Company

Want To Learn Sass? Start With These Resources

Since writing a lot of CSS can truly be an overwhelming task to take on. It is highly advisable to learn Sass. Learning Sass can help to make life a whole lot easier for both web developers and designers. For beginners, you may find it a little difficult at first, but as time goes on, you will find that it gets easier and better.

However, you will start to wonder if and when there is a way that you don’t need to constantly have to repeat the CSS codes in your style sheet. The good news is this. There is one. This is all in thanks to this CSS pre-processor. It is now a very possible thing to write CSS code without having to be repetitive in doing them again and again.

What is also very great is this. It is formatted in a very nice way. You are able to both do wonderful computations and dynamic styling by taking advantage of all these pre-processing methods.

What is Sass?

Sass is a short term that stands for meaning Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets and it was designed/created by Hampton Catlin. Sass manipulates CSS by using a host of variables, mixins, inheritance, and also nesting rules. They are issued the extensions of .sass and .scss respectively.

What Sass does the best is this: It helps to make the process of writing CSS code easier. It also helps to speed up the workflow of both web developers and designers a whole lot quicker.

Learning Sass

If you take the time to learn Sass thoroughly, as well as, to fully explore it, it will give you lots of benefits. The Sass community is very passionate when it comes to helping others. Therefore, there is no shortage of any Sass tutorials out there.

Inside of this post, you will see a selection of useful resources and tutorials for learning Sass, which will be great for you to learn it from beginning to end.

Sass: the official site

The Sass Way

The Sass Way covers the latest news and topics on handcrafting CSS with Sass and Compass. We use an open publishing model and rely on contributions from the Sass community via their GitHub project.

Sass Guidelines

An opinionated styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass. Sass Guidelines is a free project that Hugo Giraudel maintains in his spare time. Needless to say, it is quite a large amount of work to keep everything up-to-date, documented and relevant. Obviously, knowing that you liked this styleguide is already much appreciated!

Sass break

Sass break is a humble new blog for the Sass community. It’s currently maintained and curated by David Conner and Guil Hernandez.

Sass tutorials on Sitepoint

Sass News

Sass News is a weekly newsletter edited, curated and published by Stu Robson.

Sass Tutorials from LevelUp

Sass tutorials from Tuts+

Sass Reference

An attempt at making Sass more approachable by providing short yet insightful entries for all buzzwords.

Getting Started with Sass by ZURB

Sass is a superset of CSS that adds in amazing features such as variables, nested selectors and loops. It’s also the easiest way to customize Foundation! Learn the fastest and easiest way to get your Foundation 5 projects installed and updated.

Assembling Sass course

Learn Sass and start improving your front-end CSS workflow. Try Sass on large-scale applications for efficient, time-saving styling.

Getting Started with Sass (with interactive examples)

Have you always wanted to learn Sass, but never quite made your move? Are you a Sass user, but feel like you could use a brush up? Well then read on, because today we are going to review the features of Sass and some of the cool things you can do with it.

Sass for Beginners

Learning Sass with CodePen, Part One

The greatest challenge for most developers to learning Sass isn’t the concept of preprocessors, or the language itself, but the hoops that must be jumped through to get it up and running.

Those comfortable with the command line can get things going fairly easily, and tools like CodeKit help immensely, but that still leaves many designer-developers who might otherwise become Sass aficionados intimidated by change, wary of paying for a new tool, or simply overwhelmed at the prospect of changing their entire workflow.

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Impressive Looking Websites From UK

United Kingdom has one of the most powerful economy in the world and, not at all surprising, this also translates in having a lot of top level professionals in all its industries.

One of these industries is web design, the one that we’re interested in, and the one where we see a lot of skillfully executed projects that we can only admire.

In this article you will see websites created by UK designers or websites of companies based in UK, websites that value UX and also good design.

GoCardless

GoCardless makes it easy to accept recurring payments online. We unify the world’s Direct Debit networks, simplify them, and open up access to everyone. By doing so, we are creating an entirely new type of payment network.

Skimlinks

Skimlinks creates native monetization solutions for publishers, rewarding them for any e-commerce they drive by automatically turning product links and references into trackable affiliate links.

Brainient

Brainient gives clients the tools to create rich, engaging and interactive video formats which can be delivered across a range of devices and reported on in real time. The only interactive video solutions provider able to run campaigns across all UK broadcasters, Brainient has recently expanded its operation into other European markets.

Doctify

Doctify connects you to the best doctors and health professionals. Browse amongst more than 3,000 healthcare professionals: From GPs to consultants to physiotherapists, Doctify provides you with a UK directory for private healthcare!

Geckoboard

We’re here to get meaningful metrics in front of you and help you make sense of it all. But we’re more than a bunch of numbers on a pretty screen. We’re here to eliminate the noise and place the right data in front of the right people.

Qubit

Qubit offers a blank canvas for businesses to deliver their big ideas. Whether it’s acting on data science or creating highly targeted personalizations, we fuel innovation and ensure marketers are able to meet the demands of today’s consumer.

Neverbland

Neverbland is a team of designers, developers and doers. Specialists in user experience, interaction design and product development. Having earned our spurs developing startups, we understand the importance of simple, elegant solutions and quick releases; matching beautiful aesthetic to functional design.

TransferWise

TransferWise lets expats, foreign students and businesses move money globally. The firm’s pricing and operating model are a substantial departure from standard practice in the money transfer sector, providing customers with a lower-cost alternative to traditional means of moving money internationally.

YPlan

They uncover the best events every day so you can get out and Live Your City. Get the lowdown on cool dates, hidden culture and where to hang with friends. Discover, book, go – it’s that simple. Flash your YPlan ticket and you’re in.

Powered Now

Award winning invoice app for small businesses, tradesmen, contractors and self employed professionals. Manage your business from your iPad and iPhone.

Hailo

At Hailo, they help remove some of the everyday hassles that slow you down. With their easy-to-use app, passengers get a taxi or licensed car in two quick taps, while drivers earn more money more efficiently.

Affinity

Built exclusively for Mac with the power and sophistication the platform offers, and driven by creative designers from the outset, Affinity is the new name in high quality, next-generation design apps for professionals.

Stockflare

They are a team with a wide range of experience, condensed into one goal: making investing simple. Based in London, their view of the world and finance is global. They can’t afford to be any other way.

Force24

Their mission is to take the pain out of marketing automation. To give back marketers the power to be strategic. To do their jobs and do them well. To reduce admin. To ease stress. To irradicate the pain of on-boarding a marketing automation solution.

Woodbuds

Founded by Friends. Naturally crafted colorful wood earphones. Designed to make a difference.

Talk PR

Talk PR is a global communications consultancy that focuses on building Rewarding Relationships – between their clients and their audiences, between brands and consumers, between their teams and their clients, between their international network partners, and amongst a host of influencers and taste-makers who help them drive our clients’ businesses.

Fabrik

Designed especially for creatives, Fabrik makes it really easy for you to create professional websites that showcase your work.

Gravita

They started with one simple intention; create a collaborative environment like no other. No company or agency bullshit, just a focus on human centered design to surface the best ideas.

UpDroid

UpDroid is a tech company with the vision to jump-start the personal robotics industry.

We Are Shepherd

Sassi Holford

A designer, an innovator, a wife, a mother, a businesswoman and an inspiration. Add to that her absolute attention to detail and uncompromising eye for quality and you have a true original. All these roles in life contribute to the Sassi Holford who is passionate about design and who implicitly understands the importance of the gown to the bride.

Savse Smoothies

Den

Switches today are dated, they need a fresh look with modern integrated technology. These guys have partnered with several game changing companies to get the Den range off the ground, however they need your help to take it to market. Their goal for Den is to become the next standard in home automation, and be used in every home and business.

Another Escape

Another Escape is an outdoor lifestyle and creative culture publication that explores the stories of passionate people and the motivations behind their inspirational lifestyles.

FS Millbank

FS Millbank is a distinctive wayfinding and signage typeface from leading type foundry Fontsmith.

Range Rover Body Kits

BrightByte Studio

At BrightByte Studio they encourage their whole team of designers and engineers to get involved with all aspects of decision making so that each project benefits from collective creative input.

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