Sometimes, you’ll ace an interview only to never hear from that company again. There are few things as frustrating, and in our experience, it can throw you off your game. In some cases, someone else may have expressed more interest in the job, so they snatched the position away. The easiest way to show recruiters…
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When you minify your website’s CSS, HTML, and Javascript files, you can shave some valuable time off of your site’s page load speed. Now we aren’t talking about cutting your page load speed in half or anything, but when it comes to the speed of your website, any little bit helps. How fast your site…
Whether you’re designing a wedding website or putting together an announcement for an annual business dinner, finding the right font for your special occasion can be difficult. Many fonts sacrifice readability for extra flourishes, while others just don’t stand out. To help you in your search, we’ll highlight 15 fancy fonts you can download to…
When given the choice between using a vector icon or a static image, it’s a good idea to go with the vector. They’re small and fast to load, and they can scale to any size without a loss of resolution. Font Awesome is a superb library of vector icons that you can use on your…
When you set up a new WordPress website, the platform gives you three image sizes to play with: thumbnail, medium, and large (plus the file’s original resolution). This gives you a solid number of options to work with. However, thumbnails in particular can be tricky to use, since you need to make sure they look…
Video is a valuable form of content for social media. Unfortunately, creating quality videos is usually a long process that involves moving mobile footage to a desktop app for editing. However, mobile editing is on the rise. Apps such as Splice Video Editor make it possible to efficiently create high-quality video content for social media.…
There are several reasons you may need to create a redirect on your WordPress website. You may want to change your permalink structure, remove an old post or page, or create a new blog post to replace an old one. Whatever your reason, the best practice in these instances is to create a redirect so…
An intranet is a “closed-circuit internet”. It is available only at a certain location or via certain protocols. Some companies may have a network for their business that is only available while in their building. Or perhaps a college has a campus-wide network for faculty, but outside of that campus, it is inaccessible. The difference…
The term “breadcrumbs” refers to an efficient website navigational tool that (Like Hansel and Gretel taught us) is meant to help trace one’s steps back to a website’s “home” (or homepage). They allow users to see how the current page fits into the whole site structure by providing an inline track of links (or labels)…
If you are looking to learn web development online, there are more than enough resources out there to teach you everything you need to know. In fact, many (if not most) of the web developers in the world today have launched successful careers by learning web development online from scratch. But even the most ambitious…