Advertise here with BSA Sometimes, you may get a client who wants you to do something that you’re just not comfortable with. We all want to please our clients, but how do you please... Advertise here with BSA The post How To Handle Ethical Disagreements With Your Clients appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

By this time, you might have heard of many small retail businesses going online amid this Covid-19 pandemic while many big brands are making use of market segmentation to the full extent to reach their customers. However, many small business owners are still not aware of how to make the most of customer segmentation and...

Webfonts have become an indispensable part of web design. Aside from plenty of commercial variants, Google Fonts also provides many fonts that you can integrate into your web projects for free. Those that generally prefer to host themselves will find a couple of online webfont generators that turn desktop fonts into webfonts in the following article. Extensive Webfont Generator by FontSquirrel FontSquirrel is most certainly one of the most popular providers of free fonts. Among others, you will find a bunch of the same webfonts offered at Google Fonts. Using the Webfont Generator by FontSquirrel, you can easily create webfonts in all standard formats. The rather new WOFF2 format is among them as well. Webfont Generator With Many Settings To do that, just upload a TrueType, or an OpenType font, or even multiple files at once, such as an entire font family. When generating the webfonts, you choose between “basic”, “optimal”, and “expert”. While with “basic”, everything, like hinting and kerning, stays the same, FontSquirrel will make some adjustments that create the most – well – optimal display possible when choosing “optimal.” The “expert” settings allow you to customize entirely how the webfont will be generated. For example, there is a […]

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It used to be that if you wanted to create a web directory you had to invest a lot of time and money into a custom designed website built from... The post Top WordPress Directory Themes vs Plugins: Weighing the Pros and Cons appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

I love the Windows Terminal, but right now I launch the Terminal, then I pick a Shell (PowerShell, CMD, bash, etc) from the menu. Sometimes I want to be "shell-first." I'll hit the Start Menu, type cmd, and then the older console/terminal starts up. I have to remember to run Terminal THEN run cmd. So I said to myself, "self, what's a good way to fix that?" When you press Start and start typing (which is different from WinKey+R and running a .exe directly) you're looking at Shortcuts/LNK files. You can make your own and change existing ones. Press Start, type "Command Prompt" or "PowerShell" and then RIGHT CLICK the icon and Open File Location. For example, Command Prompt was here on my machine:C:UsersscottAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsSystem Tools So I Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to make a copy (backup) or I can just right click and hit properties to change the one I have. Then I change the Target to wt.exe (Windows Terminal) and pass in the Named Profile for the Shell I want:C:UsersscottAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsAppswt.exe -p "Command Prompt" In this case, it's Command Prompt. I also renamed my LNK file to Command Prompt (Terminal) but that's optional. I can do the same thing for PowerShell. I've moved to open source PowerShell 7 (based on .NET Core) that I installed from the Windows Store. Some store apps don't want you to change their icons so I just changed another. You can also make your own with right-click, New Shortcut. I even did this with the Visual Studio 2019 Developer Prompt by first making a Profile for it in my Terminal settings:{ "commandline": "C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noe -c "&{Import-Module """C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.DevShell.dll"""; Enter-VsDevShell 4f53a196}"", "guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff45ce}", "hidden": false, "name": "VS2019 Dev Prompt", "startingDirectory": "%USERPROFILE%"}, and then changing the icon to call it with wt.exe and the named profile. This can also work with Cygwin, Yori, Ubuntu, or any other shell. A few minutes and a few shortcut changes later, now I can hit start, type PowerShell, command, cmd, whatever, and it'll all load in Windows Terminal! Since this technique works only with lnk files that the Start Menu consumes, it also works with PowerToys Run (which is like Quicksilver or Spotlight on Mac)! Hope this helps! Sponsor: The No. 1 reason developers choose Couchbase? You can use your existing SQL++ skills to easily query and access JSON. That's more power and flexibility with less training. Learn more. (C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

Alongside the huge collection of design resources available, Access All Areas members now also have a premium WordPress theme to download as part of their membership thanks to the kind people at Themely. Integral Pro is a one-page parallax theme for freelancers, creatives and startups. Its simple and elegant design is perfect for promoting your […] The post Integral Pro WordPress Theme for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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In this new post to his site Sameer Borate looks at using the TOML configuration file format in a PHP application. As any one who has programmed knows about configuration files. Configuration files are mostly text files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for computer programs - mostly user applications, operating system settings. [...] In this post we will look into parsing TOML files in PHP. TOML is a configuration file format that is intended to be easy to read due to its obvious semantics and is designed to map unambiguously to a dictionary data structure. "TOML", the name, is an acronym for "Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language" referring to its creator Tom Preston-Werner. He starts with an example of a configuration file in the TOML format and, following the installation/used of the yosymfony/toml library, the result of it being parsed. He also includes an example of using the same library to build out a TOML configuration and dump it to a string for output.

In an article on Search Engine Land published early this year, Greg Gifford tears down testimonial pages, noting that: “Your testimonials page does nothing for you”. Gifford has a point.... The post Dispelling the Testimonial Pages are No Longer Important Myth appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.