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Stuart Haiz is a WordPress web designer and front-end developer. He has many years of experience working across a range of digital media, from graphic design, to retouching, to video and web design. He also teaches Adobe Creative Suite software and provides brand consultancy services.

Posts by Stuart

Photoshop CC2018 Curvature Pen Tool

Photoshop CC2018 has just been released and with it comes some new features. One of which is the curvature pen tool. Here is a brief video showing it in use […]

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Flexbox – Align Last Item in Grid To The Left

Flexbox is great for building 2D grids quickly and easily. It has pretty much replaced the use of the Float property when laying out content. But, one of the issues […]

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MAMP MySQL Not Starting – Quick Fix Solution

The MAMP MySQL servers can be a tricky thing… I use a mixture of Local by Flywheel and MAMP for my local development work. Sometimes, I have issues when launching […]

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New Website for STEPS Centre Institute of Development Studies

I don’t add portfolio websites as often as I perhaps should. But here’s a site I’m particularly pleased with – the new website for the Institute of Development Studies at […]

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Change Order of Past Events in The Events Calendar Plugin

The Events Calendar is a great calendar plugin for WordPress. It comes in both free and Pro versions and is very flexible. However, by default the events are displayed in […]

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Show Featured Image in Your WordPress Admin Dashboard

When you are working with a WordPress theme that relies heavily on the use of a featured image, it is helpful having a visual guide showing where you have used […]

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Install WordPress on a Mac with MAMP – Video

If you want to install WordPress on a Mac, or a PC, for local testing and development, you can do it for free, using MAMP. I recently uploaded a screencast to […]

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Adobe Acrobat Content Preparation Progress

How annoying is that Acrobat Content Preparation Progress message? It pops up when you open a new document. You then have to wait while it reads and prepares your file. […]

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Updating MAMP Pro 4 on Local Development Server

MAMP Pro recently released version 4. It has not been without issues – more on that later, but here is how to go about updating MAMP Pro. The steps for […]

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Adobe XD – Sketch-Killer? XD and Sketch App Comparison

Sketch by Bohemian Coding is an app that I have been using quite a lot for a while now. For my workflow, it has completely replaced Photoshop for designing and […]

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