A Freelance Web Designers Blog

I ran into a very very annoying issue this week. I recently reinstalled the OS on my mac and started developing locally again using MAMP. Then I started to notice something – When I was making changes to PHP files in a WordPress install, those changes were not reflected when I went to localhost/my-wordpress-install. Having… View Article

I recently decided to update my 2017 Macbook Pro OS to Big Sur, thinking it would be a trouble-free experience which would leave me with a faster running machine and with some nice shiny updates from Apple. I wish that would have been how things rolled out… Take my advice and do these 5 essential… View Article

If you’ve ever had to do something on your macbook that requires silence, like recording audio, you may have run into an issue where the fan is so loud it gets picked up in your recording. This can be really frustrating as its not all the time that you can hear the sound of your… View Article

I am currently working on a website for a client and for the first time, I have been working with Pods. Usually I use Advanced Custom Fields, and to be honest if the choice was mine, I would continue to use them, but sometimes thats the way things are with clients… The good news is… View Article

Recently I got into a pickle with GIT. I pushed to my development branch which is protected. I had forgotten to check out a branch off of devevelopment in order to be able to push to the repo later for merging. The problem however was that all my changes had now been moved into a… View Article

Have you ever accidentally swiped left or right on your trackpad and found that it takes you back or forward in your Chrome browsing history? Its annoying and too easy to do. You could lose vital data if for example you are filling out a form. Its happened to me in the past! On mac… View Article

Sometimes its useful to be able to rename the local branch that you are working on in Git. The good news is, using the command line its straight forward. All you need to use is the following command: git branch -m old-branch-name new-branch-name type git branch and you will now see that the old name… View Article

Like most things in JavaScript, a string can be turned into a number in lots of different ways. However, there is one way which is particularly easy to implement. Simply place a ‘+’ before your variable to convert it to an integer. const number = ‘123’ const convertedNumber = +number If you don’t believe me… View Article

In a recent project I’ve been working on, I found writing out Ternary operators very tiring, especially after doing around 50 – 100 of them when checking data from an API. They looked something along the lines of this: (if this exists, print this, or print something else) ${person.PERSON_NAME ? person.PERSON_NAME : ‘There is no… View Article

Formatting a USB stick on a Macbook /OS is straight forward. These are the steps that you need to take: Plug in your usb stick / drive Open Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility Find your drive listed on the left hand side and click it Click ‘Erase’ near the top center of the screen… View Article