Monkey business for the geek in you!
It’s been said many times that, if you want to learn more, you should teach. Taking on proteges, apprentices, students – whatever you want to call them – who will appreciate and absorb your knowledge not only boosts your ego, it can also help you learn and grow as a designer. And no, you don’t…
Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. “Was there a palpable time when you felt like…you had to have a new kind of thought as you got bigger?” asks Mike Maples Jr., host of the Starting Greatness podcast in an April conversation with Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg. Matt…
Marketing your company and generating new customers is only one piece of the overarching business puzzle. Another piece of that puzzle is to continue nurturing those people so you can build customer relationships that last. In this guide, we’ll take a deeper dive into why building customer relationships is so important as well as share…
When you’re an enthusiastic PC user, you’re always looking for tools that can improve your experience. Even though there are many tools available on the market, some don’t deliver what they promise and instead just clutter your device’s storage space. To make sure you’re installing only the most useful software on your computer, you should…
The web, and our online habits with it, are never at a standstill. One result of our fast-paced online behavior is that we scroll through our social media channels like nobody’s business. Or without having our full attention on it. Most of the time, your social image is the first (or only) thing that users…
If the internet has accomplished one thing (beyond giving us web designers a career), perhaps it’s the emboldening of cheapskates. The ability to get free and low-cost items online has outshined even the most fervent coupon-clippers of yesteryear. Now, everybody (even the grumpiest among us) loves a bargain. But when it comes to building websites,…
Managing partitions is serious business, especially when you have to remove them. I find myself doing this frequently, especially after using thumb drives as live disks and Linux installers because they create several partitions that I won’t need afterwards. In this tutorial, I will show you how to remove partitions in Linux using both command…
Do you need to build your own Cybersecurity home lab? Or is it better to just use labs as a service offerings? Menu: 0:00 ? Do you need your own Cybersecurity lab? 0:33 ? Would you recommend a home lab? 2:00 ? Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs 2:00 ? Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs 3:20 ? Failing…
If you’re worried your bad workplace is making you a worse person, you may be right. Researchers from the University of Illinois recently introduced a new model examining how chronic workplace stress can fundamentally change people’s personalities — and predictably, it isn’t for the better. According to the researchers, previous studies on workplace behaviour largely…
Lisa Gade reviews the early-mid 2021 refresh of the Alienware M17 R4 17.3” slim gaming laptop with NVIDIA RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 16GB max mobile wattage GPUs and Intel 8-core i7 and i9 CPU options with vapor chamber cooling. We test the i7 with RTX 3070. There’s a new 360Hz full HD G-Sync display…
Learn how to make money with affiliate marketing without a website! ? Get “FunnelMates” software here: http://bit.ly/FunnelMates Today, we’re looking at ways to do affiliate marketing without a website. Having a website is great, but there are actually ways to make money online even if you have no website. I’m introducing a very clever software…
There’s something very unappealing about picking up the phone to call a customer service number. If you feel similarly, you’re not alone—when it comes to customer service, people are turning to other methods like in-app messaging and social media as their preferred method of choice. Over the last year, for example, social messaging grew 110%…
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) processes both benefit from constructive feedback. Dolibarr ERP software natively allows businesses to easily create website polls. This is a great marketing method that brings people to your website and encourages participation to help you better understand your target audience. Or you can use website surveys…
Your focus keyphrase is the keyword(s) you want your post or page to rank for. If you’re particularly eager to rank for a specific keyword, you’ll probably be tempted to optimize many articles on your site for that keyphrase. But, that’s not what a focus keyphrase is for! You should only ever use a focus…
The WordPress mobile apps are the best way to manage your site from anywhere. If you’re already using the app, you might have noticed a new visual design that’s been rolling out. That rollout is complete in WordPress 17.1, which is available today for both Android and iOS. If you’re not already using it this…
The multicultural and global landscape: a broad target audience The worldwide Internet audience is growing exponentially less English speaking and less Western centred. New cultures and sensibilities are enriching the global landscape every year, resulting in a multicultural and diverse group of people. Fig.1 Worldwide Internet UsersData from Internet World Stats 2020 Q3 (www.internetworldstats.co) Read…
Brief: An open-source ambient noise player offering a variety of sounds to help you focus or fall asleep. With the increase in the number of activities around you, it is often tough to keep calm and stay focused. Sometimes music helps, but it also distracts in some cases. But, ambient noise? That is always soothing…
Learn how to create an Instagram clone with React and JavaScript! This project uses React (custom hooks, useContext, useState, useEffect, useRef), Firebase (Firestore/auth), Tailwind CSS, LoadTest, Lighthouse, Vercel, React Testing Library and Cypress E2E Testing. This React project has multiple pages: login, sign up, dashboard (to view/like/comment on photos), and user profiles. The sign-in page…
We live in an era where web designers have become ua-specialized. Many tend to have a narrow focus regarding the tools they use and types of projects they accept. It didn’t used to be this way. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the industry was a bit scattered. I certainly fit that mold….
First off, what is Seafile? Seafile is a self-hosted file synchronization program that works with the server-client model, as in you have several devices like your laptop and phone that connect to a central server. Unlike some more popular alternatives like Nextcloud or ownCloud, Seafile tries to follow the philosophy of “do one thing only,…