101 Things To Do In 2010 If You're A Freelance Developer
A great freelancer must always change their game. If we’re stuck doing the same thing over and over again, not only will we be bored with what we’re doing, we’ll eventually fall behind the curve of development and lose business. A New Year is a great excuse to stop doing bad habits and to start...
Read more…Never Learn Advanced Web Development From A Book
There are various ways to learn about web development. As a matter of fact, I’m working on a large post as we speak on great ways to learn it. Books are naturally something I gravitate to (I’m sure you can tell I’m a book geek by the books on the right), but it seems “How-To”...
Read more…WordPress Gravatars: Changing Sizes & Adding Author Photos
Lately, I’ve come across multiple instances of needing to do something different with the default Gravatars on WordPress. There isn’t a lot of documentation out there and it took me a while to figure out how to do some of these, so I thought I’d make it easy for you by showing you how to...
Read more…10 Ways To Increase Traffic By Changing Your Code
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a very complicated science. While no one knows exactly how Google ranks websites, we do have a lot of proven techniques. Good SEO depends on several factors in your website, but when you usually think of SEO, you probably think of dealing with content and inward links. But did...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: How Do You Keep Your Sanity Amongst Web Bugs?
I’m not going to lie. I have no patience. Zero, zip, zilch. So when I’m coding a site I expect myself to do it right the first time. However, some sites are trickier than others – some like to laugh at you in IE6, some like to dance around your jQuery, making it unusable. This...
Read more…The 7 Habits of Miserably Failing Web Developers
OK bad Stephen Covey references aside, we developers can often fail into bad habits while slammed with coding that eventually stop us from reaching our full potential. While some habits can help us speed up our work, others (like stuffing my face with candy as I type…) can do harm to both our business and...
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