Freelance Web Design & Development - Kegan Quimby

Note: if you’re looking for emergency support because your WordPress site was hacked or is down, please contact me right away so we can get your site back up and running!
I’ve seen it time and time again: an email from a client saying their WordPress site is down even though they haven’t done anything. This is most likely the result of a lot of different things coming together all at once, but here’s what you can do if...

WordPress is brand new as of today (Decemeber 13, 2013), and it boasts a ton of cool new features. Aside from the normal speed and security upgrades, WordPress now comes with a shiny new interface.
Over the last several months, design has become increasingly flat. Meaning, there is no fading, or shadows within different elements on the page. We see this big time with the new iOS, and lots of other new apps. Elements have one solid background color...

Virus Vaults is a software company dedicated to protecting computers from viruses and malware. They do this with a new method that uses virtual machines for browsing (don’t worry, I don’t know what that means either).
They wanted a single page WordPress site that would display all their information, while being visually stimulating. They also wanted to allow for ecommerce functionality down the road with woocommerce. The last thing they wanted was parallax scrolling...

You can see the first three parts of WordPress tricks by clicking here. We’ll take a look at a few more neat tricks you an use to make your WordPress experience more efficient and flexible.
Add classes to links in the menu – often times you’ll need to style one link. And not the first or the last, but maybe the middle one. Maybe you just want to change the color to orange (or whatever, really). To do this go into appearance > menu....