By popular demand, I updated my code and posted it as new GitHub repository that utilizes newer MailChimp API 3.0. Please read the tutorial below to create AJAX based MailChimp subscribe form on your PHP website with a little jQuery knowledge. Original post using (older and no longer supported) MailChimp API 1.0 can be found here. What… Continue reading
In order to improve the site’s SEO even further, Bluelounge requested to improve their Shopify site’s PageSpeed score to above 90/100 on both Desktop and Mobile. These are my notes to achieve 95/100 PageSpeed score on an e-commerce site. The steps explained here may not be applicable to all Shopify powered sites, but hopefully you will be able to pick up a point or two.
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It is not that difficult to manually install an SSL certificate on DigitalOcean and ServerPilot stack. Although you need to have basic knowledge of running UNIX command lines and text editor.
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It had been a while since I worked on fully customized website without using a pre-built templates. Doing House of Kooser’s new website has been a refreshing experience. While it certainly took more time, there is this different level of satisfaction once you see up and running.
Continue readingThe new website uses Kirby CMS so he can update the content easily anytime. In a short five days we launched the new website. In a short five days we launched the new website. Mario is really passionate with his hobby in photography and now the world can enjoy his work.
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Amazon Web Services EC2 t2.micro instance combined with Bitnami Cloud Hosting Developer plan, both free products will get you free and terrific WordPress hosting for a year with less than an hour to set up. No command line knowledge actually required, something that usually discourages some developers from touching cloud-based hosting.
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I have shared a simple tutorial to integrate your web page with MailChimp subscription API. It is intended to give the most basic direction and then you can expand the design and functionalities to your preference. Some of you however might prefer to use a more “plug and play” approach. Therefore I decided to list… Continue reading
You can find market sites offering templates for popular platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Magento, etc, but if you want to build a static site or using different CMS then the options are pretty limited. Worry not my friend, I have searched and I am going to list a number of sites you can visit to find nice and modern HTML site templates that allow you to customize and apply them into whatever platform you prefer.
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Out of the box, WordPress is already great in terms of SEO. Set up your blog, use a well-built theme, consistently publish new posts, then you are very likely to see traffic to your site. Taking the last word from Search Engine Optimization, there is no end result to it really. You can keep on… Continue reading
If you love Material Design, there is no reason why you should not try to use it as the DNA of your next project. Luckily a bunch of talented people took very little time to make things easier for their fellow designers and developers to be able to take make use the framework to their site’s design.
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