Category: How-Tos

Making nav menus (linklists) in Shopify is a royal PITA. You have to search for an item, wait for the list to load, and click the result. It’s so manual. There’s no bulk editing, uploads, or ways to post via API. At the time of this writing, Shopify only has the ability to read nav…

You know what grinds my gears? Unnecessary PNGs. They’re huge compared to JPGs. And if you’re anything like me, you have a 14GB folder on your desktop called Cleaning Desktop to keep your desktop clean, and it has 589 unnecessarily PNG screenshots in it. Yes, you could bulk replace with jpg using a Service you…

Screen readers don’t read strikethroughs, whether you do it through a <del> or a span class. This becomes a problem on Shopify sites with compare-at prices decorated with a strikethrough (any site that marks anything down will usually do it this way). Imagine the price is $173 and its compare-at price is $179. Visually you…

Do you have a Shopify site with video blogs as part of your content strategy? Would you like Google to know your page has a video and show its thumbnail in search results, increasing the chance your article is clicked on? You need a video schema added to the page. Is your video embedded using…

Have captions? Need paragraphs? Lost your .txt file from transcribeme? Here’s the method I found. Note: SRTs don’t have actual “paragraph” indicators. All the newlines in an SRT work to make it function as a caption — what line shows with what other line, at what time. All semantically meaningful paragraph returns got stripped out…

I had an interesting dilemma with Google Drive. We were switching as an organization from a shared Google Drive folder, to a Google Shared Drive. You are allowed to move files from Drive to Shared Drive (if you’re the owner…which is another story) but NOT folders, at least not at all permission levels. I found…