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Sites with a ton of images can take forever to load. For every image, that’s another HTTP request, and more time your users have to wait in frustration while pages load slowly. So what’s the solution? Lazy loading. Lazy loading can significantly speed up image-heavy sites and takes no time at all to enable on…
In the past few weeks, several people have emailed me in various stages of panic about the new look of their WordPress admin area. They had updated to WordPress 5+, which features the brand new Block Editor AKA Gutenberg, and were flummoxed by the new changes.
This guide introduces the new editor along with some of the common questions and issues.
I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes to a VM via PowerCLI. The first thing that popped into mind is “Automating a nested ESXi installation”. As you could imagine this would be extremely convenient in spinning up a new VMware Lab. Last weekend was the day…
HTML emails have always been developed using <table> elements, and only <table> elements. Until now. The fact is, only Microsoft Outlook requires you to use tables for HTML structure; all other email and webmail clients support the use of <div>s for this purpose. Divs have several advantages over tables. They’re more flexible to work with, supporting CSS…
Today the announcement went out that the Linux Vendor Firmware Service has become and official Linux Foundation service. For those that don’t know it yet LVFS is a service that provides firmware for your linux running hardware and it was one off our initial efforts as part of the Fedora Workstation effort to drain the…
View Comments Which are two of the most popular page builders for WordPress? If you’re searching for a Beaver Builder vs Elementor comparison, you already know, these are two of the best products out there! As an end user who wants to be able to design your own website yourself, we’re sure you know that…
Feeling stuck? Take this 3-minute quiz to figure out your next—and best—career move. Figure out your career change personality, plus some easy ways you can take action starting today. Here’s to a better work life in 2019. We’re all susceptible to work stress. Even if you’ve got your dream gig, there will no doubt be…
The WebP image format was created by Google with the goal of creating high-quality images with smaller file sizes. Learn how to use it in our new course, A Web Designer’s Guide to the WebP Image Format. What You’ll Learn In this short course, you will learn how to convert your images into WebP files,…
View Comments Speed may be everything online but reliability comes a close second. If you are planning to launch or move an eCommerce store using the pre-eminent WooCommerce, wouldn’t it be advisable to use hosting tuned specifically for its needs? We think so, which is why we have put together this complete guide to the…
Electric Literature launched 10 years ago in Brooklyn, New York, as a quarterly print journal with a mission to make literature more relevant, exciting, and inclusive. And today they’re celebrating the launch of a new website on WordPress, at electricliterature.com. Surviving (and thriving) for ten years as an independent publisher is no small feat. Over…
WordPress is the most widely used content management system on the planet. In fact, it powers over one-third of all websites on the internet. In the past, if you wanted to incorporate an e-commerce store into your site, the most popular option was typically WooCommerce. Sure, there are plenty of SaaS (software as a service)…
11-Steps Website Redesign Checklist for 2021: Audit your current website Setup a Temporary URL Identify your goals Find Inspiration (Look at Competitors) Redesign Your Website Responsive Design in 2021 Machine Learning Optimize Your Site AMP Ready Website Test Your New Website Partner With the Pros for Redesign and Development Begin your website redesign project,…
Most modal windows seem to distract and annoy the visitor with opt-in fields and unwanted deals. These modals often take over the whole page, look terrible, and don’t offer a clear way to close the window. Thankfully, iziModal.js is the exact opposite. It’s one of the sleekest modal window plugins I’ve ever seen and it…
iostat is used to get the input/output statistics for storage devices and partitions. iostat is a part of the sysstat package. With iostat, you can monitor the read/write speeds of your storage devices (such as hard disk drives, SSDs) and partitions (disk partitions). In this article, I am going to show you how to monitor disk…
Do you want to import a MySQL database? The article will show you step by step-by-step how to import a MySQL database with command line. Note: this article assumes you already have a MySQL database setup and a MySQL username setup. If you don’t have those, you can read this article about how to setup…
Designing in today’s world has become a very demanding profession. It requires creative thinking, time management, skill enhacement, and not to forget, the ever-so-changing demands of the clients. To keep up with all this, a designer needs to keep a whole arsenal of design resources at his disposal. So before you think of going from…
Radu Oprea is the co-founder of tagDiv, a company that focuses on building amazing blog, news, and magazine WordPress themes. He’s also the senior developer behind the Newspaper and Newsmag themes; which are used to power thousands of WordPress sites across the globe. tagDiv has sold well over 92,000 copies, making them a Power Elite…
Motion and animation, when done properly, can make your website more attractive. Websites which use data presentation and infographics are the perfect example. Using the animation framework we created previously, in this tutorial you’ll learn how to animate three infographic examples: data counters, progress bars, and circular progress bars. Before We Begin I highly recommend you read…
Humanity just can’t make up its mind about cannabis. For thousands of years, humans have used the stuff as medicine or to travel on spiritual quests. That, though, didn’t quite suit the British, who banned cannabis in colonial India. Then in the 20th century, the United States government declared war on marijuana, and most of…
TL;DR In November 2018, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) met in Bangkok, and a new Internet Draft was adopted. The QUIC transport protocol, an HTTP/2 successor, was renamed to HTTP/3. HTTP/3 builds on UDP, and is already being used by prominent internet companies such as Google and Facebook. If you’re using Chrome and connecting…