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My thoughts on web development and sometimes other things. You could also check out the Kelp Current for some of my other writings.

HubSpot COS Modal Site Search [plugin]

HubSpot COS Modal Site Search [plugin]

A quick and easy way to provide a nice search experience on your HubSpot website

Progressively Load Background Images on HubSpot

Progressively Load Background Images on HubSpot

I am a big fan of the way Instagram's mobile app and Medium's website load images. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's when an extremely small image is scaled up, blurred out and is loaded before the full image... eventually fading into the full image once it has loaded.

How To Make an Awesome About Us Page | Part 2: The Code

How To Make an Awesome About Us Page | Part 2: The Code

In part 2 (this post!), I'll be discussing the technical aspects of making the team member photos/videos come alive on the web, some issues we faced and how we solved them

On-Page SEO: 2016 Best Practices for an eCommerce Website

On-Page SEO: 2016 Best Practices for an eCommerce Website

Your website has been designed and coded, the products loaded, a payment gateway linked and you're ready to start taking orders. If you build it, they will come... right? Unfortunately, it's not always that easy

How To Use Excel's VLOOKUP to Quickly Update Product Data

How To Use Excel's VLOOKUP to Quickly Update Product Data

It happens all the time. You get a CSV file full of products with new pricing and you're tasked with updating the products on the website with this new data. I think we can all agree that updating product data can be a huge pain in the butt and a major

Website Structure Best Practices

Website Structure Best Practices

Having a good site structure that's easy to navigate and has a clear goal or purpose is imperative to keeping bounce rates low and visitors happy. A website's structure not only affects user experience

Behind The Site: Designing Your eCommerce Website

Behind The Site: Designing Your eCommerce Website

Behind every good eCommerce website is a good strategy. Who is this site being made for? How does that person prefer to shop online? Do they prefer to have a phone number to call or a form to fill out?

What is a Launchpad Website?

What is a Launchpad Website?

Typically, when you start a traditional website re-design, the designer will create a wireframe of every key page on the website during what we call the wireframe phase. Once the overall design is approved

3 Tips from an Inbound Web Designer

3 Tips from an Inbound Web Designer

Website performance and website growth are two seperate things that are closely knit, which have a big influence over each other. A slow website will greatly impact user experience, your page rank and can also have a negative impact on your overall brand

How To Make a Modal Popup Custom Module in HubSpot

How To Make a Modal Popup Custom Module in HubSpot

If you're familiar with Wistia, you've seen their cool modal window video embeds where the video plays in an overlay on top of the web page (also known as a lightbox popover). Modal windows are great for adding extra content on a page that would normally take up a large amount of space.