eLearning and Design Thinking

Education is changing. It has been. The world my children live in is much different than what I grew up in during the 80’s and 90’s. Never before in history has their been such decentralized access to information. Here are five ways that our understanding of education and learning needs to change in light of […]

Setting up a second header is easy to do in WordPress. Find your header.php file in your theme directory and duplicate the file. Change the file name to header-customheader.php. Now you can call custom header within whichever template you want using the following function. Most template files are set up like this so that the […]

Few thing are more influenced by culture as design, but few things are more systematically ignored by designers as culture. I grew up in suburban America, but spent most of my adult life in South Asia. While overseas, I learned some valuable lessons. I began to learn the importance of community in contrast to the […]

The following builds on a previous post about creating a script to download screenshots of various sizes. What if we wanted to edit the images we download with our download-images script? The following uses a cross-platform batch image processing program called Phatch. On Ubuntu you can install phatch with “sudo apt-get install phatch”. Here’s the […]

Have you every wanted screenshots of a webpage at different sizes. Here is a quick and easy way to write a bash script on ubuntu that will use a program called cutycapt and save webshot screenshots in a folder with one command! Here’s the code you will be working with: We will name this file […]

Here’s the code we will be working on. It is a simple script that opens a folder in Sublime Text, starts gulp running in the project and opens a website–all with one command in the terminal. Filename: startup (no extension necessary) Project Folder: /home/{computername}/public_html/examplesite.com #!/bin/bash # A simple script that opens a project folder in […]

(Note: If you haven’t yet set up your local server, you will need to do so before you can install WordPress. Here’s a link on how to do this in ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP”) After you have set up your local server, installing a new local WordPress website on your local machine is simple. In this tutorial […]