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Our Top 5 Web Productivity Tips & Tricks
Do you geek out over hacks that make your work life easier? Yeah, we do too. Check out our top 5 web productivity tips and tricks—and start 2018 off right.... Read more about web productivity »
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Net Neutrality: 3 Steps You Can Take To Protect It
It seems that all anyone in the web community can talk about these days is net neutrality. But this isn't just an issue important for web developers. It's for EVERYONE. Here are 3 steps you can take right now to protect it.... Read more about Net Neutrality »
An Introduction to Behavior Design
Download. Click. Share. Purchase. These common actions are ones that brands are wishin’ and hopin’ and dreamin’ we’ll take while visiting their sites. But how do they get us to act? It all comes down to design. Behavior design. Being the curious monkeys that we are, we wanted to learn more about behavior design, so... Read more about behavior design »
How to speak “Developer”: Image Optimization
Visuals are incredible aids to our memory. In a memory study referenced in the book Brain Rules, people only remembered 10% of the information they heard three days prior. But by adding a photo to that information, those same people remembered 65% of the information. Nowhere is the importance of visuals more apparent than the... Read more about image optimization »
Web Standards, Blue Beanies, and You
November 30 is Web Standards Day. For many, this observance doesn’t rank up there with New Year’s or even Flag Day, but its existence has impacted your life more than you probably realize. Have you ever: given your phone frustrated squinty eyes because a site you were visiting wasn’t mobile-friendly? found a website hard to... Read more about web standards »
How to speak “Developer:” Websites, Themes, & Templates
We may not all be developers in this world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t understand what they’re talking about regarding your WordPress website. Sometimes developers get so excited about their projects that they forget how to speak to non-developers. This post will help answer a common question many non-developers ask during the web development... Read more about websites, themes and templates »
Tips & Tricks from the Geeks: Email Signatures
If you use Gmail and get annoyed with email signatures taking up unnecessary space on a long email thread, do something about it! Eliminate your signature and instead try Google Lab’s Canned Responses to add in your signature only when you need it most. You also can save versions of your signature to use in different... Read more about email signatures »
Mobile-Friendly Sites Boosted in Search Rankings
In May 2016, Google rolled out an algorithm change that boosted mobile-friendly sites in mobile searches (it did not affect desktop searches). Keep in mind that people use their smartphones on the go, but they often use them from their homes, too. Research also has found that 42% of people use mobile devices while researching... Read more »
Parallax Column in Pure CSS
Earlier this year I came across this incredible technique for creating the parallax effect (where objects closer to the viewer appear to move faster than objects in the distance) using only CSS. I’m sure you’ve seen parallax on the Internets before, you know, that site where an image moves off screen more slowly than the... Read more »
Overlapping 2D and 3D Elements in Mobile Safari
This may seem like an arcane subject, but if you are using 3D transforms in CSS, understanding it could save you some headaches. In our case, we were working on a client site with the following heading: The heading was marked up as an h3, and “RETIRED” was wrapped in a span with a flip... Read more »