Category: Design Posts

Inside Every Racer is a Faster One!
A.D. Cook

TeamWWF

I don’t often share my website design work in my POSTS + UPDATES. Mostly, I like to write about my observations and stories of art, love, Las Vegas, and beyond. Well, that and cars and some tech stuff, which I love. So, while most of my readers know me for

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Bonsai Tree in Contemporary Home
A.D. Cook

Pruning The Bonsai

Sometimes, when chatting with my fellow web designers about developing and growing a website, I reference the process to a bonsai tree. Before I get too far into my story, I must confess that I have never owned a bonsai tree, but I’ve built plenty of websites.

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Search Engine Optimization
A.D. Cook

Search Me

With the new Advanced Search feature, it’s easier than ever to search the ADCook.com website.

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RSS Feeds on ADCook.com
A.D. Cook

Do You RSS?

What is RSS and Why Do I Care? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to my RSS feed can enable you to keep track of my posts and updates through a

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FutureStarRacing.com Home page screenshot 021822
A.D. Cook

The All-New FutureStarRacing.com

Those who follow my posts know that I enjoy creating for the web when I’m not at the easel. Sometimes I’m blessed when my design life and fine art life are in harmony with one another.

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ADCook.com Brilliantly Safe! for content & links
A.D. Cook

Sur.ly Safe

Brilliantly Safe for Content & Links. I’m honored to share that the ADCook.com website has received a Sur.ly award for Internet safety.

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ADCook.com Mobile-Friendly featuring Indian Summer
A.D. Cook

Mobile-Friendly

28%* of You are Reading this on Your SmartPhone (I know that because Google tells me so). That’s why the ADCook.com website has been mobile-friendly for a long-time, since early 2011. That’s when I first became aware of WordPress responsive websites. WordPress made creating sites more flexible, from a creator’s

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ADCook.com Alexa Top 100k Global Rank
A.D. Cook

Thank You, Alexa

In today’s Internet world, an artist has to be a creative entrepreneur, a web designer, and a marketer, along with a lot of other skills to succeed on any level, both online and on the Internet. It can be a lot to keep up with and still make time to

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Translate Languages at ADCook.com
A.D. Cook

Art Translated

A lot can be said about art in most any language. You can now read about artist A.D. Cook and related artworks on this website in 12 languages; Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

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Elfsight Widgets
A.D. Cook

Elfsight is Alright

I admit that I am a massive fan of Elfsight as a compliment to Webflow. Coming from a WordPress background, I am a big fan of wiz-bang and clean design.

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Astra WordPress Theme
A.D. Cook

The Perfect Theme for WordPress

“Let’s build a website. It’ll be fun” How many times have you thought that? Or heard that? I get that a lot from people who want to build a website and think that it just pops up overnight. That’s usually followed by an “If we build it, they will come”

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Google Animated
A.D. Cook

Google Tops 7 Billion Daily Searches in 2020

Google changed everything. Even in its earliest versions, Google was a game changer. While you had to be specific about your searches (ex: restaurant+city+___________), you did get results, and that freed us up to explore the world from our desktops. Today, only a couple decades later, you can just talk

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