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Raise your hand if you feel a little duped by the job market. ::flaps hand wildly:: I grew up believing that landing a good job looks like this: clocking in at 9, sitting in a fluorescently lit cubicle till 5, and getting a 3% raise every year until you reach middle management. Now, there’s nothing…
Join cPanel and Weebly to uncover new ways to drive growth and customer adoption in a live 1-hour webinar. Plus learn firsthand how the cPanel and Weebly integration makes your life easier. Join this webinar to: Get an introduction to the cPanel Apps Catalog Learn why website builders are core to growth in your business Hear…
Longreads has been connecting readers with quality stories since 2009, and since joining Automattic in 2014, we’ve published more than 100 pieces of original reporting, essays, and book excerpts from talented writers and reporters from across the globe. Here are five. “Violet,” by Adele Oliveira Illustration by: Kjell Reigstad Violet was born at 25 weeks…
Whether you’re dealing with virtual or physical goods, a Frequently Asked Questions section is a multi-purpose workhorse that can complement your wider support efforts and can even act as a key piece of marketing collateral for potential customers. Putting together the perfect FAQ for your products requires a little upfront investment in terms of time…
Q1: What is your background, and how did you get involved in WordPress? I studied at Sheridan College and always wanted to become a computer animator, however when I graduated the market got flooded with animators. I took an animation job with a startup here in Toronto, Canada. We produced online videos for the hotel…
Visitors receive the “Error 404” page when they try to access content that doesn’t exist on your site. This can be caused by a myriad of things including mistyping the address. Although this page does serve a purpose, it doesn’t give visitors incentive to explore your site to look for the content they want. This…
Is your cover letter kind of lame? Write one that doesn’t blow your chances.
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Amazing tools, tips, and resources to make life as a freelancer way easier.
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Did you know there are over 180 million active websites on the world wide web? The internet bursts with content, from excellent to mediocre and downright horrible. Websites add more content daily, which makes it difficult to find high-quality sites. In fact, the content explosion complicates things for new business owners or website managers who…
Plus 5 skills you need to learn now to take your resume to the next level.
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Q1: Most people in the WordPress community know you from being the Co-Founder of WooThemes. What was that journey like? I think it’s always easier to have the benefit of hindsight in answering that question. At the time, Woo were mostly first-movers in everything we did, which meant that there was very little confirmed best…
Your sites are about to get even faster on mobile devices: starting today, WordPress.com sites support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) – a new initiative spearheaded by Google to dramatically improve the speed of your pages loading on phones and tablets. The best part? WordPress.com users don’t need to do a thing. AMP works automatically, loading a…
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions around web hosting and it is really hard to find out the truth. Most of the web hosting companies rarely or never share any behind the scenes information with their customers about how their system works or what’s truly included in the $3.99 monthly package. But if…
Need a shakeup in your career perspective? This career advice could change your world.
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When it comes to dealing with instances of returns and refunds, many companies find themselves ill-prepared. This lack of preparation takes the form of clumsy support interactions when customers reach out with such requests. In this post I’m going to share the tricks you can learn from Amazon to increase sales, reduce returns and improve…
There is currently a small issue when trying to upgrade from Netapp Unified Manager 6.3 RC1 to 6.3 GA, where by at the beginning of the upgrade the wizard cannot find the CDROM and displays: Invalid ISO Make sure that a valid ISO is mounted on the virtual CD/DVD device Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp…
You wake up one morning, check your phone, and spit out your coffee. You have thousands of likes on Facebook, hundreds of retweets, and an inbox that has exploded. Your little blog — which normally gets a dozen views per day and has an audience of exactly two, your spouse and mother — has been shared…
If you want to ace your job interview, be sure you avoid these common blunders!
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Mobile apps are a huge part of our technologically dependent world. That said, thousands of different downloads are available for different tasks. Choosing ones that make your life easier and avoiding the time wasters can be a challenge, and what you need depends on your business. Technology can become a hindrance if you’re spending more…
As both WHMCS and cPanel have finished our move to our new offices, released new versions of our respective software, I wanted to take a moment to catch up with Matt Pugh, CEO of WHMCS. Below is our conversation where I ask some questions about the relationship between our companies and some of the exciting…