During a recent project, we found the need to reference the color values of birthstones. We’ve compiled some reliable representations of these colors and converted them to various color codes. We hope these provide quick and easy reference to other designers looking for these codes. Month Birthstone Hex Value Web Safe CMYK January Garnet #862633 […]
Raising Timeouts in Nginx, PHP, or HHVM
If you’ve ever tried to do a an import into WordPress, PHPMyAdmin, or anything else that may take a while processing, you may run into a timeout error. This problem can be traced back to software running your server. If you’re following our setup, you’ll be running Nginx and HHVM. If not, you might be […]
Jetpack Photon over HTTPS
One of the coolest features of Jetpack is Photon, a free CDN of sorts that hosts your site’s images from the WordPress.com servers. While there’s lots of debate on whether Photon can be a help or a hindrance from a speed and SEO perspective, if you want to use it over an HTTPS connection you’re currently […]
WordPress LEMH Server on Ubuntu 15.04 Tutorial
Supercharge your hosting server using this complete Ubuntu 15.04 LEMH Stack setup guide. Last Updated: 06/10/2016 Nginx Compiled from Source, HHVM, MariaDB 10, FastCGI Cache, and CloudFlare SSL with a Self-Signed Certificate Configuration File Locations For your reference, these are the configuration files we’re creating or altering, and their corresponding locations. There’s […]
TanicoleWedding.com
An information packed event site to celebrate a wedding. Fully responsive and mobile ready. This website featured an interactive Google Maps functionality that allowed guests to get directions to the venue. In addition, guests could fill out a simple form to RSVP to the wedding, with the filled out form going directly to the bride […]
MassageCupping.com
A content heavy business and store page. This site’s visually appealing color palette of blues, greys, and orange combines to convey a bright and healthy feel, while also incorporating a water-inspired design. This fully responsive and mobile-friendly business site is highly complex. It combines a blog, event calendar, and online store. We utilized stylized tables […]
NicoleOquendo.com
A bold and visually complex professional resume site. Created for visual artist, university professor, and creative non-fiction writer Nicole Oquendo. The goal of this site was to convey the convergence of the literary, artistic, and academic worlds. A fully responsive and mobile ready design featuring a static sidebar to the left, this leaves the front page […]
Gamecrastinate.com
A niche-topic magazine-style site with a dark theme. The design of this site focused on bold lines and dark, technically-inspired graphics. This site uses a limit color palette of dark reds and greys, which allows the color heavy images of its source material to stand out. Gamecrastinate was our largest project to date, as the site […]
FalconBowse.com
A purpose-driven online store. The site’s clean and simple design focused on displaying and selling products online. Using a minimal color palette for the design, we allowed the bright colors of the products to add the main color to the site. Created by professional skateboarder Brian Downey, Falcon Bowse is a small skateboarding culture-inspired clothier that […]
TimeToPublish.com
A clean and minimalist design centered around a blog format. This goal of this site was to showcase the writing, submissions, and publications of Nicole Oquendo (NicoleOquendo.com), a creative non-fiction writer and editor teaching at Full Sail University. Since the format was entirely based off frequent blog posts, the site’s design emphasized this greatly. As […]