Gaslamp Media LibraryGaslamp Media cofounder Thai Yin has been in the website and internet marketing industry since 2003, starting out as designer for a leading internet marketing and lead generation company before becoming a freelancer. Thai started his own design firm in 2006 (Yin Media Corp) with a small team of talented designers and developers and later formed Gaslamp Media in 2008. He currently oversees all web design and development projects for Gaslamp Media. A self proclaimed nerd, he stays up to date with the latest in Internet trends and passes that knowledge to his clients. Thai has a BS in Management Science from University of California, San Diego.
Photo Credit I talk a lot about the Roots theme. It’s our favorite starter theme and comes with our favorite responsive framework. Roots come with its own theme wrapper which makes it a little difficult to understand for people new to WordPress. The base.php takes the place of the usual index.php file in a WordPress […]
As a company that does both Drupal and WordPress websites, it can be frustrating sometimes when functions that are so easy for one platform are so difficult to duplicate on the other. One example is the Menu Block functionality that will create a submenu relative to whatever page you’re on. Like many things in WordPress, it […]
Google open-sourced 750 glyph icons in a variety of formats free to use in whatever way you want. Grab the free suite of icons to you use in your next app or website. Follow it on Github to get notified of any new releases.
Did you know Chrome has a built in mobile device emulator? You can resize the browser window to popular devices like the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note, and Google’s own line of Nexus devices. How to Activate the Mobile Device Emulator 1. Open developer tools – Ctrl+Shift+I (PC) or Cmd+Shift+I (Mac), […]
Google Domains is available as an invite-only beta right now. With no cost for private registrations and what appears to be built-in Gmail for domains integration, this may be a worthy competitor in an already very crowded market. If you want to check it out, request an invite code.
Drupal Bootstrap theme does not support IE8 by default. IE8 does not understand HTML5-specific markup and CSS3 media queries. Without support for HTML5 and media queries, you will only see the “mobile” view when you load a Bootstrap theme in IE8. You’ll need to add support for these two features yourself. If you need to […]
Does your project call for you to insert an ad, graphic, or some other type of content between posts? If so, there’s a very easy solution. A typical loop looks like this, taken from the twentyfourteen theme: if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() ); endwhile; else : get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ […]
An updated guide is available! See Drupal Bootstrap 3.4 Instructions Bootstrap is our favorite starter theme for Drupal 7. However, the documentation is a little out of date and incomplete for Bootstrap 3.1.x and newer. The template files are also in an unusual place, making getting started with the subtheme trickier than it needs to be. […]
The latest version of Bootstrap 3.x has some great UI features out of the box, but you’ll have to customize it to really make it your own. You can override the Bootstrap CSS with your own, but it’s so much easier to make small edits to the source LESS files and then compile them into […]
Thinking about getting into the web design industry? Just graduated and trying to find the right job for you right out of school? There are many different types of web design careers and choosing the right one can be a difficult choice. Hopefully we can help you narrow down the options with this overview. Types of Web Design […]