Biggest Freelancing Fear

Biggest fear when I started as a freelance #webdev 17 years ago: my skillset stagnating. Without co-workers in an office setting, I was afraid I wouldn’t gain the knowledge I needed to keep up. Quickly I discovered that wouldn’t be the case. Rather than being a hinderance to learning, working on my own has given me […]

#devnotes – Bash scripting for fun and profit

It has been a busy year in the home office and a couple of months since I’ve gotten one of these published. Allow me to share a smattering of my development related thoughts… My first Bash scripting gig If you’d told me ten years ago I’d be writing Bash scripts for client projects, I wouldn’t […]

New Theme, Fresh Start

I’ve had my eye on Raam Dev’s Independent Publisher WordPress theme for a couple months. I’ve been wanting to code out a child theme for it that adds masonry style archive pages. However, as client projects have kept me busy, I’ve yet to get around to it. So, today I decided to go ahead and […]

Recent Work: EDGE2016 Security Conference Website

This week information security professionals will be descending upon the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, TN for the first annual EDGE Security Conference. The conference will bring together the industry’s brightest minds for keynotes by a former White House CIO and an editor at WIRED magazine, plus an agenda packed with industry specific discussion and topical sessions. Since […]

Google Sheet + Sheetrock.js = Upcoming Events Table

Once of my first projects this year was a refresh of the Love Worth Fighting For Marriage Event website. Notable in this build was our move away from WordPress as our event listings backend and on to a Google Sheets + Sheetrock.js powered view. I’ll explain how I made this move below, but first here’s a […]

#devnotes – site concept, logo, and website in one week

I have a couple of clients who primarily know me as a “coder”. I’m the guy who keeps their website running and codes new functionality for their existing infrastructure. As far as my graphic design skills go, they haven’t had much interaction with me. So, it’s fun when one of those clients passes me a project […]

Adding HTML id attributes to Visual Composer rows in the X Theme

I’ve been providing coding assistance for the web team over at CodeTN. For their initial launch, they’ve built out a one page scrolling website which also has a couple additional pages. Here’s a look at their one-pager along with its accompanying main menu from the WordPress admin: This setup is pretty typical, but on sub-pages […]

#devnotes – WordPress Shortcodes GUI, IT work

WordPress Shortcodes are a quick and easy way for me to extend the capabilities of the WordPress editor for my clients. All I have to do is write some code that hooks into the API, and I’m able to add “macros” that my clients can type into the backend. These macros get replaced by my code’s […]

#devnotes – Google Mobilegeddon, Using Basecamp, and a Site Redesign

As you may or may not have heard, the Google Mobilegeddon happened on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. On that date, Google adjusted their mobile search algorithm to favor mobile optimized sites for mobile searches. In other words, if you’re searching Google on a mobile device, their search will favor sites optimized for mobile. It’s unclear […]