Posts Tagged ‘website’

Moving WordPress websites to a new server and domain

Moving a WordPress website from one server to another can be complicated, especially under a different domain. These steps and resources should help make things better.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011
 

Bundling Plugins with Themes

Auto install plugins on theme activation.
This code will help you save time when building WordPress websites. Full instructions on usage, courtesy of the WPML.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011
 

Superscript special characters like REG with jQuery

HTML has blessed us with short-codes you can use to insert special characters into a page. For example to display a ® (registered trademark) sign, simple use the ® short-code. What if you want to make that same ® sign to be super-scripted, so that it appears slightly smaller and above all other text? HTML also [...]

Thursday, November 18th, 2010
 

Easy image based hover menu with HTML, CSS & jQuery

It has become convention on most websites to have the main navigation in the form of a horizontal menu at the bottom of a header. If, like Adal Design, you build unique websites based on graphic mock-ups, you probably make a different menu every time. Though it is great to be able to build your [...]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
 

Website Hosting & Maintenance

It’s not a website until it’s on the web! You wouldn’t overlook the neighborhood you chose for your business, and the same goes for your host. You will be entirely dependent on that host to process and make available your content in a fast and reliable fashion. Knowing which hosts are best for you and [...]

Saturday, August 21st, 2010
 

SEO & Content Promotion

Draw traffic to your website. If you have a website, or are in the process of obtaining one, you want people to come see it. Attracting visitors can be a challenging task, especially if you don’t know where to begin. Fortunately, SEO is almost a science. Search engines were created to index, filter and serve [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010
 

To Code a Mockup Bird

To code is to create, to develop. Behind every color, column, button or image there is code. Whether this code is hand-written, software generated or adapted from something else, it must be flawless. Adal Design takes pride in writing code that is: Appropriate for the specifications Optimized at every level Free of mistakes and highly [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010
 

Architecture, UI & User Experience

Why websites are like factories. Like a building with hallways and rooms, a website is a virtual space made of links and pages, some of which contain ‘machinery’. And like a factory, it is built to produce. Three key aspects of the construction must be particularly well thought for the ‘factory’ to produce: the architectural [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010
 

Web Design Explained

Define your esthetic identity. Giving your company, product or self an “image” is essential to successful marketing. Once that style is defined, staying true to it in all forms of media communication is essential. An image is worth a thousand words, but one that is learnt through subtle repetition can be worth millions. Design: Design [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010
 

GoDaddy vs everything, GoDaddy vs all

GoDaddy vs BlueHost vs Fatcow vs Doteasy vs GoDaddy vs GoDaddy Everything is out of control… GoDadddy did it! They did awesome marketing, and created an expense ladder in place of a user interface. They trick so many, every day… So many of my innocent, well intended customers and friends buy their domain on GoDaddy. [...]

Saturday, April 24th, 2010