You Don’t Need a Web Designer

February 26, 2018

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…

Yelp is Not a Good Marketing Tool for Your Business

February 15, 2018

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…

Multi-Radius Syntax for Sketch

February 12, 2018

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…

New Site Launch: Park City Fire District

January 26, 2018

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…

How to Migrate from Yoast SEO to The SEO Framework

December 22, 2017

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…

Special Character Reference

November 3, 2017

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…

Goodnight Firebug

October 31, 2017

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…