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For many startup businesses out there, the idea of funding or angel investment is a mere pipe dream. ‘Bootstrapping’ is…
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I earned my BFA in ’98. Learned to layout feature pages and create infographics for the local daily paper. I…
Building your first WordPress plugin (part 3)
There is no need to ask why anybody would want to write a plugin for WordPress. It’s one of the…
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s true: our sister-site MightyDeals.com is 2 years old. Hard to believe, because it’s only…
How to make design decisions
This post examines an important part of the design process that, for some reason or other, is often omitted from…
SEO for the mobile web
With the explosive expansion in the use of tablet computers and smartphones for web searches, why are so many SEO…
Our favorite tweets of the week: November 12 – November 18, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
Comics of the week #156
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
What’s the point of favicons?
When I start telling people about the importance of a favicon to their overall online branding strategy, they usually say…
Phenomenal usability bundle
We’ve all been in the situation: sat opposite a client, having delivered your best ‘gimme a job’ pitch. You’ve walked…
Ride the Rails way
Ah, Ruby on Rails. The champion of the startup hustle, and the side project. That in essence describes a lot…
Is customer service dead?
Doing business in the age of social media and online communities is not the same as it was some 20…
10 JavaScript frameworks to improve your mobile development
Issues of cross-browser compatibility, screen resolution and inconsistent HTML and CSS code are things of the past in mobile development….
Extraordinary day to night photography
Our lives, particularly within the urban environment, are governed by light; half natural, half artificial. Light is enticing; promising excitement,…
15 easy ways to lose clients
Clients are an important part of any business. But when it comes to web design, clients are everything! Whether it…
How to keep your text clean
Nothing is more important than readability when it comes to the text on your website. Absolutely nothing. If you can’t…
Yesterday, Internet Explorer seemed so far away…
…now it looks as if it’s here to stay. Having been introduced as part of the Windows 8 operating system…
40+ essential WordPress plugins
If you run your website on WordPress, chances are you use at least a handful of plugins. That’s what’s so…