How to Get an Internship While You Are Still Studying

How to get an internship while you are still studying, with the Icon Pro Solutions careers page showing its job, internship and course paths

The three ways in on our careers page: a full-time job, an internship or a course. You do not have to wait for graduation to get agency experience. You can get an internship while you are still studying, fitted around your classes, or start with a practical course that leads to one. This guide is for students […]

How to Set Up Fluent Forms Email Notifications Properly

How to set up Fluent Forms email notifications: a team notice, a visitor confirmation, Send To options and Reply To

Two notices every form needs: one to your team with Reply To set to the visitor, one to the visitor. Fluent Forms email notifications are the emails a form sends after each entry: one to your team, and usually one to the person who filled the form in. A handful of fields in each form’s settings decide […]

How to Change the Colors of Every Fluent Forms Message

How to change the colors of every Fluent Forms message, with a restyled form showing its error states

The same Fluent Forms form with its error messages restyled by the CSS in this guide. Fluent Forms shows your visitor a message after almost every click on Submit: a thank-you note, a red line under a missed field, a list of errors, a grayed-out button while it sends, or a notice that the form is […]

How to Get Hired at a Digital Agency: What We Actually Look For

How to get hired at a digital agency, with the Icon Pro Solutions careers page showing its six-step hiring process

The six steps of our hiring process, from the application form to onboarding. To get hired at a digital agency, show real work, show that you learn fast, and show that you take feedback well. Agencies change tools and clients all the time, so how you work often counts as much as what you already know. This […]

How to Set Up WordPress SMTP With Gmail Using FluentSMTP

How to set up WordPress SMTP with Gmail in FluentSMTP: port 587 with TLS, a 16-digit app password, and the Workspace sending limit

The Google side comes first: 2-Step Verification, an app password, and a From address Google will send as. If you want to set up WordPress SMTP with Gmail, most of the work happens on the Google side, not in WordPress. You need the right account, 2-Step Verification, an app password, and a From address that Google […]

How to Make a PDF Smaller to Email It

How to make a PDF smaller to email it, with the PDF Compressor shrinking a scanned PDF in the browser

The PDF Compressor on an image-only sample PDF, Strong mode at Medium quality. Your email app refused the attachment, or the message bounced back an hour later. The usual fix is to make the PDF smaller, but the right method depends on what is inside it: a scan can shrink a lot, while a typed document […]

CSS Flexbox: A Complete Guide With Live Examples

CSS Flexbox guide with live examples of justify-content, align-items and flex: 1 layouts

Three of the live flexbox examples from this guide: justify-content, align-items and flex: 1. CSS flexbox is the layout tool for putting things in a row or a column and controlling how they share the space. It handles alignment, spacing, reordering and wrapping with a few properties, and every current browser supports it. This guide covers every […]

How to Choose a Web Design Agency: What to Check Before You Sign

How to choose a web design agency: check that your business owns Search Console, the domain and the code, with copyright transferred in writing

Ownership, a written scope, who builds the site and what happens after launch matter more than the portfolio. Knowing how to choose a web design agency comes down to what you check before you sign: who owns the accounts and the code, what the written scope covers, who builds the site, and what happens after launch. […]