CSS-Tricks Uses Jetpack

November 7, 2018design tips

(This is a sponsored post.)

Hey! I made a little page to explain all the ways in which this very site uses the Jetpack WordPress plugin.

Here’s the gist of it:

  • Our Jetpack subscription gives us VaultPress, which backs up literally everything on this site in real time. That helps me sleep.
  • Jetpack improves our site search and allows it to be tweaked and the design customized.
  • Jetpack connects to Twitter and Facebook, so as we publish posts it

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3 Reasons Your Bad Website is Killing Your Brand

November 7, 2018design tips
Let’s face it. Your website is a big deal. Your website represents you, but when a prospective customer is on your website, simply put, you’re not there. You’re not sitting with you customer seeing their interactions. You’re not seeing their frustrations and disappointments. And certainly – calling you and telling you about their experience isn’t …
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Small is the New Big: An Interview with Paul Jarvis

November 7, 2018design tips
If our server can’t keep up with the number of requests its getting, we have two basic options; scale up, add more servers or server resources, or make the program more efficient. A perfectly-optimized program would never run out of server resources. That’s a great ideal, but its hard and processing power is cheap, so …
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A Guide to Custom Elements for React Developers

November 7, 2018design tips

I had to build a UI recently and (for the first time in a long while) I didn’t have the option of using React.js, which is my preferred solution for UI these days. So, I looked at what the built-in browser APIs had to offer and saw that using custom elements (aka Web Components) may just be the remedy that this React developer needed.

Custom elements can offer the same general benefits of React components without being tied to …

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20+ Best Instagram Post & Story Templates 2018

November 7, 2018design tips
We’ve handpicked a collection of Instagram post and Story templates with professional designs. You can easily customize these templates to add your own text and images to create a more successful Instagram content strategy. Instagram is one of the best platforms for promoting brands and businesses. But, with millions of posts being added every day, […]
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UI vs. UX: A Culinary Comparison

November 7, 2018design tips
If the title of this article drew you in, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some kind of Venn diagram with a dozen circles showing the overlap between user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). This article doesn’t dispute any of that. But it does explain UI vs. UX in an alternate way. One of […]
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Testing Nested Components In A React App

November 6, 2018design tips
This post is part of a series on React development for WordPress developers. In my last post, I covered unit testing React components using Jest. Jest, when used for basic assertions and snapshot tests can cover a lot of the functionality of a React component. The “React Way” of developing interfaces calls for composing interfaces, …
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Why you can’t trust website analytics

November 6, 2018design tips
Data is a huge part of any website. It’s important to know exactly who is reading your content and which topics are getting read the most. These numbers help you plan your content. However, how much can you really trust your website stats, e.g. Google Analytics? The answer should be not that much. Data from …
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