Honest Code

02/06/2014

Setting up your first online store with Shopify: http://hnst.co/4f

10/21/2013

What we’re doing (and recommending you do too) about the whole hosting thing: http://hnst.co/4a

You may have recently heard that GoDaddy purchased Media Temple, our host, but Media Temple will “continue operating as an independent and autonomous company.” Such acquisitions are typical in the tech world, but this one hit home: I’ve been a Media Temple customer for about five years, and I deeply...

07/17/2013

http://honestcode.com/2013/07/testing-1-2-3/

It’s easy to say that I test everything before it leaves the shop. I’m the programmer, after all. But with complex platforms like WordPress, where drop-in components, widgets, and themes may all come from different vendors, it’s easy to lose track of who’s responsible for testing what.

06/25/2013

http://honestcode.com/2013/06/but-i-wont-do-that/

After 15 years of developing websites for scores of clients, I’ve learned a little bit about a lot of things. Perhaps more importantly, I’ve learned a lot about what I don’t do — either because it’s outside my experience, too shady, or just not something that interests me.

03/22/2013

Aloha! We’re officially on vacation. We’ll be back at work on April 8, bright and early.

03/18/2013

Aloha Alert! This is our last week in the office before a two-week vacation. http://hnst.co/3m

From Monday, March 25 through Friday, April 5, Michelle and I will be taking our bi-annual vacation to Hawaii with my good buddy's astronomy class. As in prior years, we'll be taking students to the Gemini Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea, as well as to Volcanoes National Park, and an honest-to-...

07/03/2012

By now, most of you probably know that I suffered a stroke on June 6. (And if you don’t, now you do.) All things considered, the stroke could have been a lot worse — it could have killed me — but instead just took a pretty good chunk of my vision and my ability to walk.

Continue reading: http://honestcode.com/2012/07/better-by-september/

Honest Code is a small-time operation creating modern, accessible, searchable websites for good clients. Since 1997, Honest Code has designed and built websites from the ground up for large and small customers all over the country.

04/23/2012

As the adage goes, the second a web designer launches his new site is the same second he starts working on his next site design. Guilty as charged.

I could go on about all the details I grew to dislike about the old site -- the low-contrast color scheme, the unbalanced footer, the page weight. Instead, I'll go on about the things this new design does better.

http://honestcode.com/2012/04/another-day-another-redesign/