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Eric Karkovack (886 Articles)

Eric Karkovack is a web designer and WordPress expert with over two decades of experience. You can visit his business site here. He recently started a writing service for WordPress products: WP Product Writeup. He also has an opinion on just about every subject. You can follow his rants on Bluesky @karks.com.
The Grumpy Designer’s Advice for Avoiding Painful Tasks

The Grumpy Designer’s Advice for Avoiding Painful Tasks

Web Design

Every job has its highs and lows – web design is no different. For me, I often find my highs when there are opportunities to be creative. Whether it’s through…

Why Gutenberg Has Changed My Opinion of Page Builders

Why Gutenberg Has Changed My Opinion of Page Builders

WordPress

Ever since page building tools hit the market (particularly the WordPress market), I’ve been rather dismissive of them. A big reason why is that they made a bad first impression….

Personalize the User Experience with the Free IP Geolocation API Sponsored

Personalize the User Experience with the Free IP Geolocation API

UX Design

Discover a free IP geolocation API to enhance your web projects with location-based user experiences.

Imagining a Single-Browser Web

Imagining a Single-Browser Web

Web Design

It is often said that competition brings out the best in all of us. Whether we’re running in a race or building software, knowing that others are out there doing…

Is Nothing Sacred? The Pollution of the WordPress Dashboard

Is Nothing Sacred? The Pollution of the WordPress Dashboard

WordPress

There are any number of things to love about WordPress. Chiefly among them is the fact that it’s open source and free to use in any way you like. For…

Use the Free uListing WordPress Plugin to Build a Powerful Business Listings Site Sponsored

Use the Free uListing WordPress Plugin to Build a Powerful Business Listings Site

WordPress

Running a listing-based website can be both fun and lucrative. But traditionally, leveraging this type of platform to list real estate, jobs, automobiles or classified ads has been cumbersome and…

The Grumpy Designer’s Guide to April Fool’s Day

The Grumpy Designer’s Guide to April Fool’s Day

Freelance

The Grumpy Designer’s humorous take on navigating April Fools’ Day in the design and tech industry.

Behind the Scenes of ClassicPress – the WordPress Alternative

Behind the Scenes of ClassicPress – the WordPress Alternative

WordPress

WordPress 5.0 brought with it a lot of change and controversy. Most of the buzz surrounded the switch to a new block-based editor named Gutenberg. It seemed to have left…

Stylemix Themes Releases 4 Industry-Specific WordPress Themes Sponsored

Stylemix Themes Releases 4 Industry-Specific WordPress Themes

WordPress

While it’s true that each industry and business has its own challenges and needs, the WordPress theme market hasn’t always recognized this. So often, themes are released with promises of…

A Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman

A Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman

Freelance / WordPress

Spotlight on Maddy Osman, a WordPress evangelist, sharing insights and experiences from her career.

How to Ship a Custom Login Form in Minutes – Without Coding Sponsored

How to Ship a Custom Login Form in Minutes – Without Coding

Web Design

If you can create a user login form for your product or app in minutes – and without coding – you must be doing something illegal or magical. Or, you…

Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites

Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites

WordPress

As software evolves, we can find ourselves having to adapt to new ways of doing things. There’s a learning curve involved that, while frustrating at first, becomes second nature once…

How to Test Your WordPress Website for PHP 7.x Compatibility

How to Test Your WordPress Website for PHP 7.x Compatibility

WordPress

There are a number of benefits to running your WordPress website on a recent version of PHP. Among the most noticeable perks is the massive increase in speed. PHP 7.3…

5 Signs You Should Replace Your WordPress Theme

5 Signs You Should Replace Your WordPress Theme

WordPress

WordPress has been around for well over a decade. And, coupled with its massive market penetration, it’s reasonable to assume that there could be a whole lot of outdated installs…

How to Add Mobile Navigation to Your WordPress Theme

How to Add Mobile Navigation to Your WordPress Theme

WordPress

Let’s look at one method for adding an attractive and functional mobile navigation system to your WordPress theme.

Perfect the User Experience with userstack

Perfect the User Experience with userstack

UX Design

Improving user experience with Userstack, a tool for understanding and optimizing website interactions.

Microsoft’s Browser Legacy

Microsoft’s Browser Legacy

Web Design

The browser market is changing. With the recent news that Microsoft is abandoning its EdgeHTML browser engine in exchange for Chromium, it seems that Google has won the browser wars…

The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019

The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019

Web Design
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