WordPress Plugins: How Many is Too Many?

February 21, 2018design tips
There are tons of reasons why WordPress plugins are a necessity. They offer a ton of features and functionality that your site doesn’t have otherwise. With plugins, you can customize the site you’ve already built to better suit your needs and serve your visitors. But you’ve probably heard that having too many WordPress plugins on …
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Variable Order

February 21, 2018design tips

A fascinating little tech demo by Roman Komarov that allows for clickable table sorting entirely in CSS. It’s a combination of inline CSS custom properties, the order property, and calc().

This demo sparked a ton of conversation about accessibility, the crux of which is that the reordering is done only visually and not in the source. Which means that someone interacting directly with the source (a screen reader) might be mislead into thinking they’ve sorted the table when they …

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Some Things I Recommend

February 21, 2018design tips

Howdy. I’m taking this week’s “Sponsored Post” to give a shout out to some apps, courses, and services that I personally like. These things also have affiliate programs, meaning if you buy the thing, we earn a portion of that sale, which supports this site. That money goes to pay people to write the things we publish. That said, everything on this list is something that I’m happy going on the record endorsing.

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Some Things I Recommend is a post from CSS-Tricks

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30+ Best Scene and Mockup Generators of 2018

February 21, 2018design tips
It isn’t always easy to find the right mockup for your header or feature image. Using a mockup generator can help you tweak and customise a mockup to match you needs perfectly. Mostly because high-quality stock photos and images are hard to find, and can come with hefty price tags. Even when you do find […]
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How To Test The Emails WordPress Sends

February 20, 2018design tips
Getting emails through your WordPress site is important. Whether someone is informing you there’s something wrong with your products, or just dropping by to say you’re doing a great job, you need to make sure you receive those emails. Too often, our tests for if emails work on a WordPress site or in a WordPress …
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The Hidden Gems Of WordPress

February 20, 2018design tips
One of the most frustrating things about WordPress is that parts of the WP Admin are difficult to find – if not outright hidden. That makes getting things done not so easy or intuitive. But as with any application, some elements of the User Interface need to be hidden or obscure for various reasons. Usually, …
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The JavaScript Learning Landscape in 2018

February 20, 2018design tips

Raise your hand if this sounds like you:

You’ve been in the tech industry for a number of years, you know HTML and CSS inside-and-out, and you make a good living. But, you have a little voice in the back of your head that keeps whispering, “It’s time for something new, for the next step in your career. You need to learn programming.”

Yep, same here.

I’ve served in a variety of roles in the tech industry for close to …

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5 Fun Augmented Reality Apps for Design Inspiration

February 20, 2018design tips
Augmented reality is a growing trend in application design and development. Apple has invested in the technology with recent updates (ARKit), and plans to include even more AR features. So how do you start planning to design for augmented reality? It starts with playing with apps already on the market to see how they work. […]
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13 Performance-Boosting Site Speed Tips for WordPress

February 19, 2018design tips
There’s no doubt about it: Site performance is crucial to the success of your website. Today, over 25 percent of users will leave a page if it takes more than 4 seconds to load. And a delay of just a second can compound with dropped conversion rates, decrease your page views, and increase your bounce …
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How to Convince Your Clients to Stay on WordPress

February 19, 2018design tips
Doing business is almost impossible without being on the Internet. So why do Freelancers and Agencies hear from potential clients that they don’t need a website at all?   People strive to simplify their life, so they opt for using services like Facebook Pages, Wix or Weebly. What clients don’t know is that WordPress is …
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