The best way to improve your development skills is to try to replicate effects of websites you see around the Internet. One of my favorite recent sites is BankSimple.com While their particular  site is packed-full of really cool effects, the most eye-catching on the site is the vanishing header. When you scroll-down the content section of the page overlaps the header area that doesn’t move.

In the hunt to figure out new and less obnoxious ways to get your visitor’s attention, today’s Thesis tutorial discusses a new method I came across recently. Rather than bombard users with popups and auto playing videos (there is a time for that, it just isn’t “always”) we walk through adding a call to action section to your navigation bar using Thesis and WordPress.

It’s been said a million times, but I think it’s important enough that it bears repeating; If you aren’t shoving thirty thousand social media links down your visitor’s throats every time they look at your blog, you’re doing it wrong. Wait… What I meant to say was – the exact opposite of that. In fact, [...]