Image Optimization Tips for the Web Before Getting Started, Some Things to Know: Why is image optimization SO important? It’s very common for images to be the biggest weight for websites when they’re loading. They slow down page speed dramatically if not prepared for the browser correctly. Fortunately, it isn’t hard to optimize your……
Category: Computery Stuff
Computers are a part of humankind now, I think it’s safe to say. I have always been curious about them, and always wanted to know programming and learn as much as I can. With design, the internet, robotics, 3D printing, and everything that’s connected to them, it’s imperative to me to know as much as possible. Which is a huge job.
But here I lay out what I’m learning, think is interesting, and find to be worthwhile to write about. It’s a broad topic, to be sure. But life is broad. I manage both as best as I can.
Sketch and Adobe Illustrator
Sketch and Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is considered the standard tool for creating vector artwork, and although it’s been challenged a number of times over the years, it remains on the top of the heap. That’s for many reasons, but being the simplest to use certainly isn’t one of them. It’s easier than Photoshop to……
WordPress and Medium
If you blog you’re familiar with WordPress and most likely Medium. WordPress has been around for over 10 years and is a mature platform. Medium is younger and was launched by Ev Williams of Twitter and has become a publishing platform for both amateur and professional writers. There are, of course, other platforms like Wix,……
How Is This Legal?
My chat with a Spectrum Tech yields interesting tales.
How to Speed up Your Computer
I’ve learned the hard way prevention is a better approach than allowing problems to appear on their own terms and reacting to them all under a code red emergency, usually. Always at the worst time, it seems. And I’ve managed a lot of websites and machines for others and tried a lot of the products……
How to Add Dashlane to Chromium Based Browsers
Here’s how to download Dashlane for Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi.
Vectr WordPress Vector Editor Plugin
This is a WordPress plugin for editing and creating vectors right within the WordPress post page I’m trying out and it seems pretty powerful, if it works as imagined. And so far it’s delivering. It’s a vector editor that I can pull up right in my posts/pages. They have a desktop app available for OS/PC/Linux, as……
Book
ack when Bootstrap was Twitter Bootstrap and it had been downloaded a grand total of about 5,000 times, I wrote and published a book on how to develop using the Twitter Bootstrap framework. I sold a few copies and learned about using Bootstrap pretty well. Well enough to write around a 200-page book on it,……
The Old Website Switcheroo
hanks to having my old domain hostage by my previous host, whom I won’t name, and a hosting account active with no domain suddenly attached, I dusted off mmusgrove.com and made it the primary domain at the active host. I’m already taking a massive SEO hit, may as well fix a few other things while……