I had the pleasure of migrating a wordpress site from a shared hosting into a VPS (Virtual Private Server) instance. The motivation behind it is to have greater resources and to be able to do more server level optimisations. Plus it allows me to use letsencrypt secure certificate. The experience... View Article
There are a lot of guides out there that deals with this topic (installing ssl certificate) but not much that are actually tailored for this pair, GoDaddy and Ubuntu. So hopefully today’s article will be helpful for many people. Elements Basically in order to successfully install an SSL certificate you... View Article
It’s probably just me, but one of the best way to start a day is by being greeted with an inspirational quote from great people. In fact not just at the beginning of the day but perhaps any time when you are feeling a bit tired or stressed. Opening a... View Article
I’ve been experimenting with a couple designs lately, many of which involves creating a floating centered modal popup with frosted blur effect. That is, a modal popup that overlays a full screen background image and blurring the background. The screenshots below will speak for themselves. Can we do it with pure... View Article
Happy Holidays to all of you readers, thank you all for visiting my website, reading and sharing my articles. I hope that you have been finding most of the articles in this website useful. As my gift to all of you, I have released 30 high quality stock images (photos)... View Article
Within any software development team if we want to generalize we can almost always group the team members into three kinds of specialization. The first is the hardcore application engine developer. These are the people who write the heavy application logic and processing. They focus on engine development and software... View Article
There had been a couple occasions where I had to create a sidebar on a website that will stay visible no matter how much the user scrolled. This is pretty easy of course if you just want to stick the sidebar to the absolute top using fixed positioning, but of... View Article
Outsourcing graphic design to a third-party organisation is a very common situation. It doesn’t matter if the company is a pure software development company or a larger company with its in-house IT department, I think this decision make sense. Sometimes we do need outside the box opinion and one would... View Article
Just a short post on things that I had to do on my recent projects in order to make it look acceptable in IE7. Sadly, some users are still stuck on the land of IE7 and IE8; this is very bad for us developers and content providers. Also equally sad... View Article
Building a new website is always exciting, especially if its your own. First you design in your favourite graphic design software such as Illustrator, Inkscape, Photoshop or GIMP. Then you start applying the design into your website. The problem is that sometimes we get carried away with our CSS. We... View Article