SVG vs PNG vs JPG: Image Format Pros & Cons

When it comes to creating images for the web and other digital purposes, what file formats will give you the best result? You have to think about speed versus image quality and scale. So what should you use: SVG vs PNG vs JPG? There was a time when you just used a JPG sized to […]
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Gutenberg Cloud Plugin for WordPress is Now in Beta

Frontkom, the team behind the Gutenberg Cloud project, has published the beta version of its WordPress plugin to the official repository. Cloud Blocks serves as a connector, allowing WordPress users to browse and install open source blocks from Gutenberg Cloud. The blocks are hosted on NPM and their assets are (more…)
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Getting Started With React Unit Testing For WordPress Development

When I first looked at Vue vs React, I chose VueJS. One of the reasons was that I felt like Vue was a better choice was the complexity of React classes and life-cycle events. I felt like that was a lot of extra complication that would help with developing frameworks, but preferred the simplicity of …
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Freemius Launches The “We Got Your Back” Program To Push WordPress Plugin & Theme Branding Forward

Sometimes, when I stumble across certain WordPress products in our business sphere (more with plugins than with themes) I think to myself: “I bet that the logo/icon/featured image/homepage design for this one was either created by the same person who coded the product, or perhaps through a Fiverr gig”. At some point, after having said …
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How to Get Web Design Clients: 10 Ideas to Try Today

Who was it that said working as a freelance web designer was easy? While the work might not be a problem, the business of finding new web design clients is another issue. It can be tough to keep a steady number of clients coming through so that you stay busy and maintain the right income […]
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Subset Numerals so They’re as Awesome as the Rest of Your Content

You’re putting the finishing touches on your new million-dollar-idea — your copy is perfect, your color scheme is dazzling, and you’ve found a glorious font pairing (who knew Baskerville and Raleway looked so great together? You did.) but there’s one problem: Raleway’s pesky lowercase numbers make your shopping cart look confusing and overwhelm the user.

This is a fairly mundane problem, but an issue that can make beautiful typefaces unusable if numbers are an important part of your site; a …

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Emphasizing Emphasis

I think Facundo Corradini is right here in calling out our tweet. If you’re italicizing text because it should be styled that way (e.g. using italics to display a person’s internal thought dialog, as illustrated in our example), then that’s an <i> and not an <em>, because <em> is for stress emphasis — as in, a word you would emphasize with your voice, if spoken, to affect meaning.

Plus, I’m always down for long-form articles about the nuances …

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10 Effective Strategies to Come up With Content Ideas for Your Blog

When writing a blog, it can be one of the hardest things to come up with content ideas. Oftentimes it seems like everything has already been said. What more can you contribute to the discussion? What else is there that your audience would find interesting? Feeling stuck in writer’s block is not a lot of …
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