Finding Top Talent: Stop Looking Inside a Box for People Thinking Outside of One
When you’re looking for innovative and action-driven talent, why not open your doors up to people that have already pioneered their own lives? I was recently contacted about an opportunity. On many levels, this opportunity “checked all the boxes”, but...
Veteran Freelancers: Lessons and Insights From WordPress Pros
We recently did a series talking to freelance rookies who are at the beginning of the careers. So we also wanted to talk to veteran freelancers and learn some insights from the years of experience. A lot of wisdom comes...
Latest Firefox Release Available today for iOS and Desktop
Since our last Firefox release, we’ve been working on features to make the Firefox Quantum browser work better for you. We added by default Enhanced Tracking Protection which blocks known “third-party tracking cookies” from following your every move. With this...
How To Create Old School Style Tattoo Art in Adobe Photoshop
The style of ‘Old School’ tattoos is a popular aesthetic in the tattooing scene and has become an iconic illustration style in other genres of art. The stylised handmade drawings feature thick black outlines and bold colours, often depicting roses,...
Dott raises $34 million to build a sustainable scooter startup
European micro-mobility startup Dott is about to raise a $34 million Series A round (€30 million). Compared to many scooter companies out there, the startup is taking a careful approach when it comes to growth in order to build a...
Beaver Builder vs Elementor: Top WordPress Page Builder Comparison
The WordPress page builder scene is hotter than ever with more and more plugins entering the market each year. A few major players have risen above the rest, and we want to compare the top WordPress page builders. In this...
Is open source the future?
Photo by Alex Holyoake on Unsplash Today open source software is used by everyone & everywhere knowingly or unknowingly. But it was not like this from the beginning. It all started around late ~60’s?—?early 70’s. This was the time when there...
Starting From Scratch: How to Generate Traffic For a Brand New WordPress Site
Since WordPress allows pretty much anyone to build a website, the playing field for starting a web venture is pretty level. However, while all sites start from the same place, it’s what happens after the initial launch that determines whether...
How WordPress Websites Get Hacked
Your website is like a home – secure if you take the appropriate precautions, but vulnerable to burglars if you don’t. In the website world, however, sites don’t get burgled, they get hacked. The number of sites that get hacked...
How to Optimize JavaScript and CSS and Improve Website Performance
No one likes a slow website. In fact, many users would rather leave your site rather than wait more than two seconds for its pages to load. That’s why it’s crucial that your site is optimized for performance. Fortunately, there...
Celebrate the Birth of the Portrait Zoom: The New TAMRON 35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD (model A043)
For the first time ever, a dedicated portrait lens that allows you to zoom through various composition options as the creative alternatives zoom through your head. The versatile 35-150mm zoom range incorporates the 85mm focal length (optimum for portrait shooting)...
4 Surefire Ways to Improve your Ecommerce Product Pages
When operating a webstore on Magento, or any other online platform, Ecommerce product pages are what influence customers the most. In fact, those who find product pages first when browsing webstores end up making purchases around 8% of the time....
Integrating Bootstrap 4 into Rails 6
…and how to use a theme To install Bootstrap 4 and a theme, we are going to be adding some packages, updating some configuration and adding a few additional gems/libraries to make life developing easier. This is going to assume you...
Managing WordPress: The 4 Best Practices Your Clients Need to Know
WordPress makes it fairly easy to set up and run a website. However, this doesn’t mean there’s zero upkeep involved in managing your site. It doesn’t matter if it’s a blog, a business site, or even an online store –...