Category: Website Development News

Tools we like: Gravity Forms

Our favorite WordPress plugin for building forms is Gravity Forms. There are many reasons we like this plugin. Reasons We Like Gravity Forms Ease of use – Gravity Forms is a true “drag and drop” form builder that you access directly from WordPress admin dashboard. Powerful capabilities – the plugin provides the full range from […]

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Tools We Love: WordPress Custom Post Types

In our continuing series about tools we love to use, when it comes to WordPress custom post types, in our opinion you can’t beat the WordPress CPT UI plugin. Why Use WordPress Custom Post Types? A WordPress custom post type solves a basic need in many websites. As developers you are often asked to create […]

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What are custom fields?

Custom fields are a powerful development tool. Their availability and ease of implementation is one of the factors that sets WordPress above all others in the CMS world. We prefer to use the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Custom Fields: What Are They? Adding a custom field to a WordPress record like a page or […]

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Tools We Love: WordPress Custom Fields

Continuing our series on Tools We Love, when it comes to WordPress Custom Fields, there is none better than the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. WordPress Custom Fields: Advanced Custom Fields “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” From Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If ever a quote from historical literature could […]

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Hiring a web development agency

Are you looking to hire a web development agency? Check out this article from Entrepreneur.com about the 7 steps you need to follow. Web Development Agency: 7-Point Hit List to Hiring an Exceptional Web Designer What does their portfolio look like? What does their process look like? What software and technologies are included? What is […]

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Accelerated Mobile Pages

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages Project has been in the news recently. Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, Backed By Google, Promises Faster Pages Google announces a new open initiative aimed at making pages load more quickly on mobile devices, a counter to moves by Facebook & Apple. Danny Sullivan on October 7, 2015 at 8:20 am Source: http://marketingland.com/google-open-mobile-web-145588 […]

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Web Development Checklist

As part of our daily deep dive into the world of web design and web development, we found this checklist to follow for upcoming web projects. Some pretty good stuff here. I think we will steal a few of these for our own project checklist. This is coming at the issue of a web development […]

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Web Development Mistakes We Won’t Repeat

When I read this article about web development mistakes I thought to myself, “Been there, done that.” These sort of mistakes must be the right of passage that all web developers need to go through on their way to being experienced web developers. Top 4 Web Development Mistakes According to the blog post, these are […]

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Where are all of the good web developers?

We found this excellent article from Josh Althuser on ComputerWorld.com. Of course we’re a bit biased about Josh’s opinion since a) we are web developers, b) we consider ourselves good web developers and c) it jives so well with what we see and hear in the market place each day. Good Web Developers: Where Are […]

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Adding Responsive Tables to Your Website

Some data just needs to be shown in tables. That’s all there is to it. When tabular data needs to be viewed on mobile devices, responsive tables are needed. Making tables responsive has never been easy. In fact, creating responsive tables has always been a hassle for web developers. Oh, sure … it’s easy enough […]

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