Years ago I took a web design gig on Craigslist. The owner of Laughing Buddha Tattoo shop in Seattle was looking for a new website. In time, sales from the new site surged! The site has evolved over the years and Michelle Hamilton eventually sold the shop here in Seattle and decided to focus on…
Handl Defense has a new and improved website! This go-around, we decided to focus on user experience and make the website super easy to use. We also took our time with the mobile styles, making sure the site is just as easy to use on smaller screens. We even added some cool tools to help…
Thermal Exposure just completed a few upgrades to the ClearSign website… If you haven’t heard of ClearSign before, well now you have! And you’ll be sure to hear the name a lot more. ClearSign is developing some radical new technologies to make combustion more energy efficient and less wasteful. I’ve seen this technology in action and…
I recently had the privilege of working with film critic and prolific video blogger Cole Smithey. Ted Rall (the political cartoonist) recommended Cole and I work together after I helped Ted with his site. Cole’s project required quite a lot of problem solving since his website is hosted by TypePad — as service I had only…
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to OS X Yosemite. If you’re like me and use your mac for local web development, you may have noticed that your Apache configuration is a little out of wack. I’ve written a few articles on installing and configuring WordPress on OS X that seem pretty popular. So,…
Symetrix.co got a major upgrade today! I’m happy to have had a hand in it.
Yeah, okay. I realize it’s a bit arrogant to try to dictate to everyone in the world what plugins they should install on their own WordPress sites. So, I come before you humbly to suggest that this suite of plugins is a pretty good place to start when creating a new site or improving an…
I do a lot of local web development, mostly using WordPress. I have written several guides, including: a step-by-step guide to getting WordPress up and running on your local mac setting up multiple localhost subdomains for testing more than one site at a time on your mac and another on hosting multiple WordPress sites. This…
If you’re using WooCommerce’s Authorize.net DPM (Direct Post Method) plug-in for handing off credit card transactions to Authorize.net’s payment gateway you may run into the following error:
“ClearSign chose Thermal Exposure from among several companies to help design and develop our visual identity. Since that time we have expanded their role to include corporate videos, website design and hosting and branding and messaging. We continue to be delighted with the quality of work, attention to detail and value for money that Alex…
