In this day and age on the internet, users have no patience for websites with poor loading speeds or substandard performance. Half a second can make a world of difference on whether or not someone stays on your site. Website …
Month: September 2021
Creating a Portfolio to Showcase Your Engineering Abilities
Portfolios have been used to promote graphic designers, photographers, graphic illustrators, and artists, but they can be just as useful to software engineers and developers. A software engineer is not just someone who writes code all the time. More often …
The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances. A …
UK’s Marshmallow raises $85M on a $1.25B valuation for its more inclusive, big-data take on car insurance
Marshmallow — a U.K.-based car insurance provider that has made a name for itself in the market by providing a new approach to car insurance aimed at using a wider set of data points and clever algorithms to net a …
Flexible API Design: Create Hooks for Your PHP API Pipeline
Designing application programming interfaces (APIs) can be a challenging endeavor. Good APIs have simple interfaces that are straightforward and easy to use. Behind this simple interface can be many complex system interactions, and those interactions can really muddy the waters …
How to Grow Your Small Business with Affiliate Marketing
As a small business owner, you’re always looking for ways to raise brand awareness and increase your sales. But scaling a business is hard in today’s competitive market. If you’re the sole owner, it means you’re doing everything yourself, from …
Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the <b> and <strong> elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
11 Most Advanced Shipping Plugins for WooCommerce
Shipping is one of the most important aspects of an eCommerce business. Customers are directly influenced by the shipping services you provide in your store, based on which they will make decisions on future purchases. Some issues customers encounter on …
How To Leverage Your CRM For Better Productivity
The use of customer relationship software (CRM) is bringing great changes in the corporate world. Every brand is struggling to gain maximum benefits with its smart use. However, many newly developed companies are unaware of the core functions and outcomes …