Digital Sky Design

07/05/2017

Clients, friends and family: If you have a moment and you'd be so kind, I would greatly appreciate it if you left me a 5 star review on my Google business page using this link:

https://goo.gl/izY1UH

This helps me tremendously in regards to SEO and being found locally.

Don't feel like you need to write a novel either. A simple sentence or two is all it takes!

06/12/2016

While it's almost impossible to get a perfect Google PageSpeed score, we sure like to come as close as possible for our clients!

05/10/2016

The new website is finally here!

http://digitalskydesign.com

Digital Sky Design is a web design company based out of Portland, Oregon specializing in web design, graphic design, copywriting, SEO, WordPress, and more!

06/04/2016

Hmmm, well this micro site turned out to be 'different', but in a pretty cool way!

http://cuinsuranceagency.com/

14/02/2016

Another new site we launched, http://epiclearningnetwork.com

14/02/2016

Check out http://boostedtech.com, another website we launched recently.

20/10/2015

The Peninsula Credit Union site is finally done!

http://www.pcfcu.org

Peninsula Credit Union serves members who live, work, worship and go to school in Kitsap, Mason, Jefferson, Clallam and Grays Harbor County.

03/09/2015

Check out the new Interface Technical Training website: http://www.interfacett.com

100% responsive and a fresh new design! This one has been in the works for a long time!

Quality IT Training for Over 20 Years. Instructor-Led Training in Phoenix, AZ and online with RemoteLive

07/07/2015

How to fix Gravity Forms Tabindex Conflicts

If you’re like most people out there when you’re filling out a form a web page you like to use the tab button to go from one form field to the next. This is possible due to the ‘tabindex’ HTML attribute.

Sometimes when using Gravity Forms you might find that the tab button doesn’t always take you to the next form field, and instead takes you to another form field. This is most common when using a Gravity Form on a page which is loading a non-Gravity Form (i.e. the WordPress comment form). You’re typing away on your Gravity Form, hit the tab button to go to the next field, except the next field happens to be a completely different form. This code I’m going to show you will set the starting tabindex of your Gravity Form so ridiculously high, that no such conflicts will ever happen again.

All you have to do is add the code below to your W ...

17/06/2015

The Peninsula Credit Union site is coming along very, very nicely!

http://dev.digitalskydesign.com/

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02/05/2015

How to Add Placeholders to the WordPress Comment Form

One of the most bothersome things about the majority of WordPress themes is that they use form labels instead of placeholders. That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with using labels, but sometimes when you’re trying to design a really clean and contemporary looking form, placeholders can add so much more visual appeal.

Now, a novice might just go into the /wp-includes/comment-template.php file and hardcode the placeholders to the comment form. Sure, this works perfectly, but any WordPress guru will tell you that you should never edit any of the WordPress core files. For one this could potentially break a lot of things (especially if you don’t know what you’re doing), and for two, anytime you update WordPress to a new version our changes will be overwritten.

The proper way to make changes to WordPress is to modify your themes functions.php file. With that being said, yo ...

02/05/2015

Create an HTML Layout with Fluid and Fixed-Width Columns

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that responsive websites are not only the new standard in web design, but also the way of the future. If your website is not responsive by this point, you are really stuck in the past. That being said, with responsive web design comes a host of new issues that typically didn’t present themselves with static, fixed-width web designs of yesteryear.

One of the biggest issues with responsive web design is mixing pixels and percentages. Sure, it’s completely possible, and it’s something I myself do on a day-to-day basis. However, it can get very tricky and cumbersome, especially when trying to do something like have a two column layout in which one column is fixed width, while the other is fluid.

A perfect example of this scenario would be a page that has a content column and a vertical sidebar. You want the text in the content column to shr ...