This post was updated on March 14, 2017 Someone asked me what was the story behind the name Riot Customs. I gave her the mini version and she pretty much lost it. So I thought I should share the story (the long version) with you all fine people. Warning: dark humor. My brother was murdered… [Keep Reading]
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What is the Difference Between a Web Designer and a Web Developer?
What is a designer or a developer really? Do you need both? A huge pet peeve of mine is when people use the wrong terminology. So to understand the difference between the two we much first understand them individually. This also gets confusing when you’re looking to hire someone for a website. Do you… [Keep Reading]
Why I ditched MailChimp for ConvertKit
The answer is simple for why I moved to ConvertKit, I needed to grow my list and not be charged for duplicate subscribers. I needed a better solution to send out content upgrades and integration with my other software. Within a few minutes after importing my subscribers to ConvertKit giving them tags and placing them… [Keep Reading]
Introducing Simply Noted – A Free Genesis Child Theme
I’ve been on a coding kick and expermenting with different techniques using tutorials from amazing developers. I think it came out pretty cool. It’s a bare bones themes, with only 2 plugins to use, author avatar, and fun fonts. Download and enjoy. Upload Your Own Header Want to upload your own logo, to showcase yourself… [Keep Reading]
Introducing Macaron Pro – The Sweetest Child Theme Yet
As once the great poet Beyonce once said, “let me upgrade you”. Our sweetest and most versatile theme yet. Macaron Pro has gotten some serious upgrades. Code from the ground up, our first translation ready theme, recipe index, ad space, and tons more features. This theme will get you started on the right foot in… [Keep Reading]
Sticky Menu Navigation in Genesis
I get ask this a lot when developing custom GenseisWP themes for clients. I think it’s a really cool feature to add on to your themes. So here’s how to add it to your GenesisWP theme. First you’ll need to enqueue the script by add thing snippet to your functions.php file. Create a new file… [Keep Reading]
Why You Should Use The Pancake App!
It’s hard being a freelancer and even harder finding amazing tools to help you out. The most common tool that any freelancer needs is an invoicing system. I’ve tried them all but stop looking for a system after being introduce to pancake. What is the Pancake App? Pancake is a self-hosted software that allows you… [Keep Reading]
A Peek Inside My Workflow (Admin)
This post was updated March 17, 2016, and again on May 24, 2018 Like most virtual business owners, apps, programs are EVERYTHING! I’ve tried tons of different software and programs from the popular to the unknown. Now I feel like I finally got a workflow that seems to be working for me the way I… [Keep Reading]
How to change permalinks
First let’s figure out what a permalink is, let’s see how WordPress.org breaks it down. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send… [Keep Reading]
Keeping Your Site Secure
Security is very important to any site, especially in this new time where hacking is at an all time high. How secure is your site? If you have no idea, then your not secure at all. It’s important to NEVER use ‘admin‘ as a username, this is the very first username hackers will use to… [Keep Reading]