Category: Quick Tip

Quick Tip: Remove Yourself from your Analytics

Using an analytics program such as Google Analytics to track your website’s performance is necessary to determine what works and what parts of your website still need improvements. To make sure that you have clean result, you need to remove yourself from your analytics program. You and everyone in your company could possibly be accessing your website hundreds of times a week and therefore skew the tracking results drastically.

If you’re using Google Analytics, you can simply add a filter to exclude your IP address, but there’s a better way described in the article Count Me Out!

Quick Tip: Removing Checkered Background in Photoshop

In Photoshop, a checkered background represents transparency, when you save your work, the checkered pattern will not show. The only way to remove it, is to add an actual background on the layer under your image. Here’s a tutorial of How to Remove Checkered Background in Photoshop

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Checkerboard pattern in Photoshop

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Quick Tip: Domain and Hosting providers can be different for one site

Once you’ve registered a domain name for example with Godaddy.com, you’re not obligated to purchase their hosting services for your website.

You are free to choose another hosting provider for your website and all you would need to do is change the DNS (Domain Name System) settings on your domain name to direct to your hosting provider. Find out more about DNS.

Quick Tip: Removing white background from logo

To remove white background from logo successfully, you need to make sure you save it correctly. Save only as .png or .gif file. To get a better quality save as .png. Saving as a .jpg or .jpeg file will automatically add a white background even if you have removed it.

See how to remove the background of an image in Photoshop using the Magic Wand tool