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Gutenberg: WordPress Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
Read more about GutenbergA significant change is coming to every WordPress website on the planet, and its name is Gutenberg. Here’s what our clients need to know.
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Celebrating Entrepreneurs at Fort Collins Startup Week
Read more about Startup WeekAt CodeGeek, we strive to build up our local community and foster the entrepreneurial spirit. That’s why we’re a proud sponsor and presenter of Fort Collins Startup Week.
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Our Top 5 Web Productivity Tips & Tricks
Read more about web productivityDo 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.
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Net Neutrality: 3 Steps You Can Take To Protect It
Read more about Net NeutralityIt 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.
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An Introduction to Behavior Design
Read more about behavior designDownload. 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, soRead…
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How to speak “Developer”: Image Optimization
Read more about image optimizationVisuals 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 theRead…
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Web Standards, Blue Beanies, and You
Read more about web standardsNovember 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 toRead…
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How to speak “Developer:” Websites, Themes, & Templates
Read more about websites, themes and templatesWe 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 developmentRead…
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Tips & Tricks from the Geeks: Email Signatures
Read more about email signaturesIf 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 differentRead…
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Parallax Column in Pure CSS
Read more about Parallax Column in Pure CSSEarlier 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…
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Overlapping 2D and 3D Elements in Mobile Safari
Read more about Overlapping 2D and 3D Elements in Mobile SafariThis 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…
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YouTube Audio and Video Out of Sync – (Window) Size Matters
Read more about YouTube Audio and Video Out of Sync – (Window) Size MattersA common request came from one of our clients the other day: “I want to include some YouTube videos on my website. Can you do that for me?” No problem! We’ll simply get your videos uploaded, find the handy “Embed” code YouTube automatically generates and put it right where you want on your webpages. The…