You Don’t Need a Web Designer

If you are looking to have a website built I have good news for you: You don’t need to hire a web designer. These days there are tools and services available that make it easy for almost anyone to build their own website. No coding necessary. This is very very good news for so many…

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Yelp is Not a Good Marketing Tool for Your Business

For years Yelp salespeople have called periodically to get Spigot on board with advertising through their platform. These people have all been brushed aside. We have never had a serious budget for advertising, and Yelp always seemed like the last place I’d want to spend ad dollars. Who searches Yelp for a web designer? Who…

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Multi-Radius Syntax for Sketch

Not every shape with a radius should be the same on all sides. Thankfully Sketch has this functionality built right in. Since I can never seem to remember the proper syntax for doing it, here it is for easy reference. Semicolons Semicolons! Not commas, slashes, or tilde’s yo! 0;0;8;8; Hope this helps you as much…

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New Site Launch: Park City Fire District

When we migrated to Park City in 2007, we brought with us a fairly non-existent little design company called Spigot Design. We had a smattering of clients from our earlier locale, Minneapolis Minnesota, and not much else. I was determined to make the company work, without getting a ‘real’ job. Dumb, stubborn, or both https://web.archive.org/web/20080915070332/http://www.pcfd.org:80/…

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How to Migrate from Yoast SEO to The SEO Framework

I’ve used Yoast SEO (formerly WordPress SEO) for nearly as many years as I’ve been building WordPress websites. In the past few years Yoast SEO has famously gotten bloated and filled with ads. While I don’t blame Yoast SEO for monetizing the plugin, it’s made me start looking elsewhere for similar SEO features. For the…

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Special Character Reference

The following reference table is from the Webmonkey Special Character reference page, a link that I’ve kept for at least a decade (http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/), (Note this link is also now broken) now owned and redirected to Wired. The link broke the other day and I commented about it on Twitter. They heard my cry and put…

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Goodnight Firebug

So many web technologies have come and gone over the years, and when their time is up, most go quietly. Last week Mozilla announced that Firebug has reached its end of life and will be retired as of their next Firefox release. While I haven’t used Firefox or Firebug in years, this is still a…

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Transmit 5 Empty Directory When Using Transfer and Skip

10.31.17 Update: Good news! Update to Transmit 5.0.5 fixes this issue! I really like the new version of Transmit. It’s super fast and easier than ever to use. But after 7 years and a massive overhaul of, well, everything, there are bound to be bugs that pop up. A skipped directory, an empty directory There’s…

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Drift Chat

We’ve used Drift chat on our sister site Cinch for over a year now. During that time we’ve been able to help countless people with the small WordPress problems they encounter, and it’s been fabulous. Most of them don’t end up becoming Cinch customers, but that’s okay. A few do and we’re just happy helping…

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