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Matthew Hall

Compass Health Shield Branding

Project details: Client: Compass Health ShieldsDesign House: Alexandra GoTools: Adobe Illustrator Scope: Branding for the Compass Health Shield line of products. The compass Health Shield line of products is and expansion of the Compass retail Group’s branding that incorporates the parent company’s logo into a strong branding for the full line of health shield products.…

Shopify templating and builders

Project details: Client: Monk ManualDesign House: MatthewHall.info LLCTools: Liquid, Gulp, SCSS, JS Scope: Updating templating system within Shopify based on provided mockups. Shopify is a wonderful tool, but it doesn’t come built out of the box and page structures can get really tricky really quickly, luckily there is a lot you can do to build…

Choosing a web-host for wordpress

There are an infinite number of things to consider when choosing a web host, but let’s boil it down to the simple details: cost, speed, email. Whenever you choose a host, you have those three to consider. 1. Email Do you need email service on the domain host? Really? Are you comfortable with a low-perfomance…

WordPress, NGINX, Cache, Plesk, and why is my TTFB so high

To put it mildly, tuning a server is complicated, even for incredibly common setups and out-of-the-box solutions. In the end you’ll hear mostly that you need to install this, or that, plugin. You do, but you don’t. In reality most systems seem to have moved to an NGINX setup and all of the .htaccess rule…

Beezix Shopify email templates

Project details: Client: Beezix.comDesign House: MatthewHall.info LLCTools: Liquid, Gulp, SCSS, JS, GitHub Scope: Templating system for Shopify’s email responses, invoicing and customer communications. We re-built the generic shopify communications to customize directly with the new visual identity for Beezix.com. Each of these communications was set up and templated to allow for the generation of several…