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Despite the rise of distributed work across the corporate world, the Trump administration is pulling back. In a departure from the previous president’s move toward distributed work, multiple federal agencies are ending remote work provisions and mandating co-location. Trump’s war on telework represents a milestone in how his administration is changing the culture of the…
Learn how to make money as a freelance web developer. You will learn about finding clients, making money, developing contracts, completing taxes, and more. This course is taught by an experienced freelance web developer and includes additional advice from an attorney and an accountant. ?? Course Contents ?? ?? (3:20) Three rules for making money…
It takes time to find a theme that seems to meet your needs. It takes more time to check it out or find several more themes in order to make some comparisons; and you’re still not sure! Top-tier WordPress themes tend to have the features and capabilities most web designers want, beginners and old hands…
This is the first post in a series that looks at the state of WordPress plugins for customizing your WooCommerce store.
Here I look at WooBuilder Blocks which is a great choice for owners of small stores that want to handcraft their product pages.
Jason Fried, the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, collects mechanical watches. He appreciates their simplicity. He once wrote in a blog post, “When I look at my watch, it gives me the time. It asks nothing in return. It’s a loyal companion without demands. In contrast, if I look at my phone for the time,…
Read more about Jason Fried in “Working Smaller, Slower, and Smarter.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. For our first episode of the year, host Matt Mullenweg talks to Jason Fried, the CEO of Basecamp. Jason runs a semi-distributed company that’s been making project management software for 20 years….
The link profile of your company’s website is one of the most important elements of your search engine optimization (SEO) ecology. It’s essential to know how your site links within its many pages as well as how it links to and from external sites. One of the most important yet most often overlooked aspects of…
The font used on the website affects to the reading experience of the users which is why web designers often spend a lot of their time finding good fonts pair that will suit their website’s design. We pick a font, then convert it to a Web-compatible format, and then add it into the style-rules. It’s…
Choosing to host your website on managed WordPress hosting over generic budget hosting implies you care about the performance and security of your website. And WPX Hosting is as good as it gets as far as WordPress hosting is concerned. In this post, I will share the detailed steps to install and configure WordPress on…
Last month I was asked to join two existing VMware vCenter Servers each with embedded platform services controllers, in enhanced linked mode. Additionally, this will create one SSO domain and enable vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode. The first thing I did was read VMware’s documentation which can be found by clicking here, and secondly, I created…
Avada is a multi-purpose WordPress theme, and it is the number one selling theme for over six years. Because of Avada’s features and consistency in the market, it has become one of the most trusted and complete WordPress themes. Avada is powerful and flexible. In Avada, one can import a professionally designed demo in one…
When we are building or prototyping a responsive website, we need to give the website a test in numerous viewport sizes to check to see if the layout and pages are displayed well. There are several ways in doing so: you can use Adobe Edge Inspect or a browser extension such as Dimensions for Chrome….
Podcasters and musicians looking for an alternative to Soundcloud may prefer Clyp.it. Below we cover how to embed Clyp.it audio files, called “Clyps” into your content management system (CMS) or other website using HTML. Only public Clyps can be embedded Embed Clyp Go to the Clyp.it page On the right, copy the HTML code under…
While working in the WordPress block editor you sometimes need to change the background color of a block or the text color. Fortunately, the Gutenberg block editor provides options to set your desired background and text color via the Color Settings. But where it presently lacks is allowing users to save the custom color in…
We are now officially starting a new decade, and with that also we’ve also brought you a handful of new resources for our web developers. In this round of the series we have quite a lot of applications and tools for Windows users. For example, we have a Launcher app similar to Alfred in macOS,…
InMotion Hosting provides the service to register domains in addition to hosting your website. You can register .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info top-level domains (TLDs), but the domains can only be registered using the English alphabet. So, how do you register domains that include special accent or diacritical marks? The answer is to use…
Tonight I am going to welcome the new year with live coding! See a professional software engineer at work. Unscripted. Mistakes included. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JesseRWeigel Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JesseWeigel29 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesse.weigel/ Read moreWhat is the difference between shared & dedicated hosting?Code Editor: Visual Studio Code VS Code Theme: Seti – Learn to code for free and get a…
If you’re looking to make a career change at 30, you probably have some concerns. You may be asking, am I too old for this? Did I miss my chance at my dream career? What will my friends and family think? Before you get too overwhelmed, let’s take a step back. Imagine this: You’re 22…
Looking back over the 2019 run of the Distributed podcast, one is struck by the wealth of insights our guests have shared in each and every episode. We’ve spoken to CEOs, activists, lawyers, authors, and a life coach, among others — a diverse cross-section of people with a deep interest in the future of work. …
Read more of our 2019 takeaways in “Eight Lessons from the Distributed Podcast So Far.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. To close out the year, our host Matt Mullenweg is joined once again by Automattic’s Mark Armstrong to discuss the state of distributed work as we transition into…