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The Buggy-Whip Phenomena of Change and what it means to be a Design Engineer

Are you a remote Web Developer or Graphic Designer and it feels like there’s been a DRASTIC SHIFT in the Job Market? In this post, I reflect on the dramatic...

Showcasing My Latest Posts: A Simple FREE Setup with Elementor Lite & The Posts Grid Plugin

Want to showcase your latest blog posts with a clean grid layout — without paying for Elementor Pro? In this post, I share how I added a blog post grid to my...

Eric’s Developer Journal: Updating & Redesigning my GitHub Repo Readmes

📅 Dates Covered: 2025-12-31-2026-01-01 Today was a full-on Markdown makeover across three of my GitHub knowledge base repos. I took a set of rough, barely functional...

NOTES: 2021-04-26 | Notes on LinkedIn Learning PHP Videos

These notes are continued from this post. How to Retrieve Data from a MySQL database with PHP (with mysqli) Best practice: Always free result and connection when...

NOTES: 2021-04-26 | Thoughts on PHP and Life

I have all these PHP snippets on my desk of things I learned taking Linkedin Learning PHP courses. I took a 4-hr long coding test for a remote PHP/LAMP Developer job...

PHP Fatal Error: Call to Member Function on Array

Description & Purpose In this post I discuss how I troubleshot a simple object-oriented (OOP) PHP program that had array and class issues. Yesterday I began...

Code Sample: JavaScript ES6 – Scrape OneTab Links (2018)

Here is a program I wrote in 2018. It usues vanilla JavaScript ES6 to scrape and parse links on a OneTab bookmarks page and outputs the results as HTML. While the...

Quora: What workflow do you recommend for UX redesign on an existing website?

Quora Link: https://www.quora.com/What-workflow-do-you-recommend-for-UX-redesign-on-an-existing-website Date Posted to Quora: 2018-12-25 Description: This is a...

WordPress

Showcasing My Latest Posts: A Simple FREE Setup with Elementor Lite & The Posts Grid Plugin

Want to showcase your latest blog posts with a clean grid layout — without paying for Elementor Pro? In this post, I share how I added a blog post grid to my...

Recreating WordPress Dashboard in Evolus Pencil (High-Fidelity Wireframe)

In order to teach oneself any new tool or process it can be quite instructive to attempt to duplicate a work that already exists and has been successfully produced...

Changing WordPress Theme to Newspaper Lite

I'm changing my WordPress blog theme today to Newspaper Lite. Read about my decision-making process and what other theme options were considered...

WordPress Tutorial: Update Plugins, Themes, and WP Core

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to easily and quickly update plugins, themes, and...

WordPress Tutorial: How to Install, Configure, and Remove Plugins

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to install, configure, and remove WordPress plugins...

WordPress Tutorial: How to Add & Remove Posts

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to add and remove new posts. If you found this video...

WordPress Tutorial: How to Install & Manage Widgets

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to install, configure, remove, and manage WordPress...

WordPress Tutorial: Create New Blog Post [Basics]

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to create and publish a simple blog post. In the...

Graphic Design

Eric’s Professional Graphic Designs: Dothan Eagle – 2019 – Print, Web & Digital

Year: 2019 Description: These are the print ads and web/digital advertisements I built while working at Dothan Eagle (newspaper) in 2019. Date Published: 2020-03-31...

Design Journal: Designing a new logo for St. Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church (SEMBC)

Last night I began teaching myself InkScape (again). This is the best and most well-known free and open-source alternative to Adobe Illustrator. I’ve tried to...

First Advert Design as Graphic Artist for the Dothan Eagle

It’s official: I’m a professional GRAPHIC DESIGNER! My first newspaper advertisement I designed as the news Graphic Artist at the Dothan Eagle, in...

Evolus Pencil Quick Tip: How to Group Items (Especially Sketchy GUI)

What is Evolus Pencil? Evolus Pencil (not to be confused with Apple Pencil, Pencil Sketch, or Pencil Code) is a great open source mockup and design application for...

Developer Journal: Redesigning my MailChimp Blog Updater Email Campaign

Earlier this month I spent quite a bit of time researching, redesigining, and tweaking my MailChimp email autoresponder campaign. This campaign updates users...

Color Explorer • Import colors from image

Color Explorer • Import colors from image. Have you ever wanted to get a list of all colors in a digital photo or image?  Well, with Color Explorer you can do just...

Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow

Free CSS Image Bullets: Marijuana Weed Leaf with Drop Shadow Why I’m Publishing These Images For Everyone to Use: I created these marijuana/weed/hemp/ganja css...

How To Make Ten Million Dollars In Gold With Photoshop!

2012.02.12 Hey guys.  Welcome back!  Tonight I just want to real quickly talk about a cool tutorial I found on YouTube today.  I was searching for a “Gold...

UX/UI

Recreating WordPress Dashboard in Evolus Pencil (High-Fidelity Wireframe)

In order to teach oneself any new tool or process it can be quite instructive to attempt to duplicate a work that already exists and has been successfully produced...

Quora: What workflow do you recommend for UX redesign on an existing website?

Quora Link: https://www.quora.com/What-workflow-do-you-recommend-for-UX-redesign-on-an-existing-website Date Posted to Quora: 2018-12-25 Description: This is a...

Design Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios and Case Studies

Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon...

Video Tutorials

Showcasing My Latest Posts: A Simple FREE Setup with Elementor Lite & The Posts Grid Plugin

Want to showcase your latest blog posts with a clean grid layout — without paying for Elementor Pro? In this post, I share how I added a blog post grid to my...

WordPress Tutorial: Update Plugins, Themes, and WP Core

This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to easily and quickly update plugins, themes, and...