You want your site to be cool, fresh, and exciting, but more than anything else, you should want your website to be effective. If visitors think “Wow, that looks neat” but leave without reading an article or buying a product, your design has failed. Often, visitors choose not to interact with a website because the… Continue reading 5 UX Mistakes Killing Your Website
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Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
Building single-page applications is an art, with many impressive frameworks to choose from. One of the most intuitive and widely used frameworks for building both web and mobile applications is Angular. Today, Angular 10 is out, and there are many impressive features. However, you need to master components before you dig deep. First Things First:… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components
Creative Examples of Geometric Web Design Styles
Something making its presence known on the web these days is the use of common geometric patterns which we all learned in grade school. Polygons, diamonds, rectangles, triangles, and the occasional rhombus are all an integral part of modern web design. So how does this 10th grade math subject end up affecting the way website… Continue reading Creative Examples of Geometric Web Design Styles
How to Work With Images in Shopify
When starting out with a new platform, such as Shopify, there’s a lot to learn. Whilst Liquid, the template language used in Shopify themes, is very readable and easy to get started with, one area of Shopify development which can often cause confusion for new theme developers is images. I believe the main reason for… Continue reading How to Work With Images in Shopify
How to Work With WordPress Metadata
If you’re someone who is just getting started working with WordPress, then it’s natural to be curious about some of the advanced features offered by its API. So where might you stand regarding your experience? Maybe you’ve tweaked the code in a few themes. Perhaps you’ve altered the functionality of a couple of plugins. Maybe… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Metadata
Learn SQL
Every web developer should know SQL. Although it has been around since the 70s, it is still widely used, and you can’t build a serious application without it. Most full-stack frameworks have libraries for dealing with the SQL complexity – ActiveRecord, Doctrine, Hibernate and more. But often times you need to get your hands dirty and write low-level… Continue reading Learn SQL