Responsive videos are, at times, tricky. Especially when you're trying to embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo. You see, by default, YouTube videos "respond" by shrinking their width but keeping their height. Ultimately, this results in cropping the video down to a weird square. Try resizing your browser. See how the video crops? When you play the video, the inside will resize to the correct aspect ratio, so you have a lot of extra black space at the top and the bottom. Like when you were watching a "wide screen" movie on a square CRT TV in like, 2001. This approach is ... Keep Reading
The Biggest Mistake Most Small Businesses Make on Their Website
Consider this a Website PSA. Or maybe an intervention. Some tough love from one caring, small-biz owner to another. A gif of How I Met Your Mother with an intervention banner behind the cast. It's not meant to be mean, and it's not meant to hurt your feelings. I want you to succeed. I want you to have the best, most amazing website you can possibly have. But darling, it's quite possible your website has a major problem. And you might not even realize you have a problem. You see, it's the kind of problem that hides in plain sight. It looks really good. And a lot of other people do ... Keep Reading
Add a Featured Image to a Single Post in Genesis
I'm writing this post out of necessity. I did numerous Google searches, and read through numerous tutorials, and was severely disappointed with the results. There are options withing Genesis for displaying featured images on the blog/archive pages, but it doesn't have any options for displaying featured images on individual posts. My search results only wielded plugins, out-dated tutorials, or blogs behind paywalls - nothing quick, and nothing easy. So, naturally, I came up with my own solution, and it's easy as pie. Simply plop the following code in your functions.php file: function ... Keep Reading