For the Open Web and Independent Publishing: A Month of Blogging
A post from John Gruber came across my RSS feed today about an online publisher shutting down because of Facebook’s new algorithm. Gruber links…
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…
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….
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…
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…
WordPress Show All Posts on a Custom Post Type Archive Page
WordPress archive pages show a limited number of items, controlled from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most section. The default…
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…
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…
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…
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…