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In a recent post, I covered a fun animation library for custom radio buttons, powered by CSS. That free library was released by 720kb and quickly saw a follow-up alternative called Checkbox.css. This works in a similar way, except it restyles and animates HTML checkboxes. This library comes as a suite of libraries with three…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. Paul Bromen is an online entrepreneur whose tech career has taken him from the corporate world in Chicago, to the sky high rents of Silicon Valley, and…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Junior Developer Job Find out EXACTLY what you need to do to land your first full-time job as a web developer. Asking for a promotion is a normal part of your career path. Unless you’re looking to progress in your career, you’re setting yourself back. However, asking for…
WordPress 4.4 made the WordPress REST API a part of the core. In this article I’ll explain why this development is huge for WordPress (and theme and plugin authors in general) and show you how to use it to simplify the process of communication between WordPress and other apps. The WordPress Rest API also makes…
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! Taking the plunge into freelancing is both an exciting and anxiety-ridden prospect for most working professionals. Being your own boss certainly has its perks, but how do you make sure you’re prepared to run every aspect of a…
Find Out in Three Minutes (or Less!) If a Career in Tech Is Right for You Our quick and easy quiz will help you pinpoint exactly how to get started in tech, in hardly any time at all. Sara Regan is Australian by birth and lives in Berlin where she works as a full-time developer…
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! Looking at the calendar today I noticed that January is rapidly coming to a close. As is the case with almost every late January, I can still clearly remember New Year’s day—sitting on my couch amidst empty champagne…
The new year 2018 is here. If we look at the progress in web development five years ago, it’s totally different from what we have today. Today there are new methods, tools, and even a whole new paradigm that changes the way we build websites today – and VirtualDOM is one of them. DOM (Document…
Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Welcome to The F Word, where we, Skillcrush staffers Lauren Lang and special guest Maren Vernon, discuss issues that impact all of us—both in and…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Junior Developer Job Find out EXACTLY what you need to do to land your first full-time job as a web developer. As you’ve been digging in to tech and tech terms, you may have come across the name “Ruby on Rails.” You might have also thought “WTH?”—it’s not…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. Remote Tech Jobs for April 2019 Looking for remote work in the tech field? We’ve got you covered! Read moreWhat is the difference between shared & dedicated…
Measuring the loading time of your WordPress site is a critical step in optimizing for speed. You have to know how your site is performing to understand where the bottlenecks are and to measure the impact of optimizations you’re making, or the content you add to your site. There are numerous tools available for measuring the performance of your site, each of them providing a different result, which is understandably confusing. Which one is “right”?
So which speed testing tool should you use? The real answer is that it depends on what you want to measure in how much detail you want to measure it.
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! For most of us, anxiety is part of risk-taking. Without a little fear, taking the leap from your boring office job to becoming a full-time freelancer, just wouldn’t be as rewarding. And make no mistake, change is difficult,…
Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! As more and more people find ways to join the tech industry that doesn’t involve a path through Silicon Valley, we as a culture are…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. My entry into remote work was so out of the blue that I didn’t have a lot of thoughts or opinions on the topic before I was…
Get our Free Guide to Landing a Job This free guide covers everything you need to know, from how to make sense of job listings, craft resumes, and ace the interview. Face it: there’s almost nothing worse than the looming feeling of a career dead-end. Every fiber of your being is telling you there’s no…
UPDATE! On February 8th Google announced on their blog they’re going to start alerting in July 2018 for non-SSL sites. Get your SSL today! As TLS and SSL set a new benchmark for securely browsing the internet, devices and web browsers are equally raising the bar for presenting users a safe experience. As part of this effort,…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. I think we can all agree that new year’s resolutions are kind of played out. It makes sense that the start of a new year is a…
What Career Pivot is Right for You? The 3-Minute Quiz Are you ready for a major (or even minor) career change? This 3-minute quiz will help you determine what next move is the right move for you, then give you guidance on where to start. This article is part of Making Moves Week where we’re exploring…
Some years go by slowly — not because they’re busier, but maybe there’s just more out there in the world to stop and notice. We hope the WordPress.com and Jetpack community offered you some of those moments this year. Maybe it was a helpful chat with someone on our Happiness team, or maybe you discovered…