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The Commoditization of the Digital Services Industry
The general thought for a digital services company is to attempt to set themselves apart from their competitors using some niche or other differentiator. As technology evolves, the standard services…
Web Techniques: Setting up your working environment
Before you develop a website, you have to setup an environment. These are instructions for setting up a local environment to build websites. If you set this up, you will…
Web Techniques: Targeting Elements in CSS (Beginner)
One of the most fundamental and confusing things about CSS is targeting elements. Targeting an element means selecting it to apply some styling rule to it. You can also target…
QOTD: No Answer
Don’t ask a question if you can’t accept a no answer.
Web Techniques: Launch a WordPress Site (Start to Finish)
In the many years I have been a website developer, I have learned many things. Some to make my job easier, but also process. In this article, I will give…
Web Techniques: Blocking
A common duty of a front end developer is to take designs and translate them to code. When you are learning web application development, it can be intimidating to even…
The Anatomy of Good Visualization
What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment…
Semantic Color Choices For Visualizations
Semantic. What does that mean? With regards to technology, when something is semantic it describes or identifies itself. When you are talking code, a tag may describe itself, such as…
A new era of intelligent, lightweight ‘dashboards’
Dashboard development has become novel in the last 5 years. Everyone has a dashboard that is branded “easy”, “intuitive” or “custom”. I have interactions with clients and the number one…