WordPress: Jquery’s $ variable

Your jQuery code is error free, everything should be running fine in your WordPress website, but it isn’t! You have noticed the “$ is not a function” error in your console. The problem isn’t your code, its the combination of both jQuery and WordPress (more specifically prototype). Luckily its a quick fix, albeit tedious for alot of code. Continue reading

Choosing Your Web Platform

 

 

As a new web designer it’s often difficult to choose which platform you’re going to develop with.  Do you use one platform for everything?  Or do you use a different platform for each project?  Truth be told, there is no correct answer.   In this article I will outline the tips and thought process’ Tob Studios used to determine its platforms of choice.   To begin with, Tob Studios typically uses two platforms, Drupal and WordPress.   For highly customized projects we tend to stick with Drupal, while simple project are done in WordPress.     As you may have guessed the Tob Studios website is built using WordPress due to is simplistic nature.  So how did we arrive at these platforms?  Below I will list the topics we took into consideration for our choices. Continue reading

Finding a hosting provider

 

 

Finding a hosting provider can be a daunting task.  First you’ll find there are thousands of different hosts, with prices ranging from Free to hundreds of dollars a month.  What makes them different and which one is right for you?    For most people all they will ever need is the cheap 10 dollar shared hosting plans that companies such as Hostgator, Hostrocket and Bluehost offer.   With unlimited disk space, no monthly bandwidth cap, PHP, and MySQL support, these hosting packages will satisfy most customers. Continue reading