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.
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Eric’s Journal
Eric Hepperle’s journal.
My notes on design projects. Includes software design, web design, graphic design, golden ratio, sacred geometry, InDesign, Adobe products, etc. I’m a much better graphic designer than I every was a software developer/engineer.
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Quick Tip: Download Entire Playlist with YouTube-DL CLI
This is just a quick tip about how to use YouTube-DL to download entire video playlists from YouTube. I find this software very useful because you never know when a playlist you’ve bookmarked is all of a sudden going to be removed. In some cases — before I discovered this software — I found hidden,
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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 Windows. It is has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and it’s closest competitors are probably Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and charting applications like draw.io and LucidChart.
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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 automatically in their email whenever I post something on my blog. I wanted to learn how to design a better MailChimp campaign email. I went from something that looked like the Before
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Gimp Tutorial: 125 pixel WordPress Ad Widget banner
This tutorial is for Gimp version 2.8 and is intended to teach users how to design a 125px x 125px advertising banner for use in website sidebars and elsewhere. These advertisement banners are perfect to use on your WordPress site with the WordPress Ad Widget plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-widget/), though 125×125 pixels is a common and popular
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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 Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,
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Developer Journal: Making ShopIsle Theme Search Page Display Excerpts Instead of Full Content [without plugin] – Pt. 01
This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are
Contact Form 7 Broken on WordPress – GoDaddy, MS Exchange Email Spam Issues Likely Cause
Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form
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Setting Up My New Dell Inspiron 15 (3531) Laptop – Part 3
2014.10.22 Today so far Today is my younger brother’s birthday, so I called an wished him a Happy Birthday. Since this is day 2 of easing back into eating from my fast, I ate a can of Amy’s Thai Coconut soup. It was delicious! I also spent about an hour or so adding images and
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Setting Up My New Dell Inspiron 15 (3531) Laptop – Part 1
2014.10.18 Greetings folks, I’ve just received my brand new Dell Inspiron 3531 laptop from Amazon and now I need to setup up and configure it. This will be the first part of an ongoing record of my setup process. This is mostly for my own knowledge, but please feel free to comment if this information
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