When it comes to link building, most SEO professionals agree: content is king. Cliched as the phrase is, the idea that we can build links or gain coverage without having something valuable to say is, frankly, preposterous. But while many conferences and articles over the past couple of years have instilled the values […]

If you’re a fan of this monthly design trends series, there’s a strong possibility you’ve seen a trend or two that you just didn’t like. And that’s OK. This month, each of the three trends should be design conversation starters. While the visuals look cool, are they readable and usable? […]

The mobile web keeps growing at a rapid pace. Smartphones continue to sell strongly, with Apple alone forecasting to bring in $180 billion from its smartphones by 2021. There are over 224 million smartphone usersin the United States, making the mobile web an essential focus for any website owner. The continued growth of […]

With Microsoft’s release of .Net Framework 4.7.1 this week, the development platform gains critical improvements to garbage collection, security, and application configuration. To boost memory allocation performance, particularly for large object heap allocations, an architectural change to the garbage collector splits the heap allocation into small and large object heaps. Applications making […]

Short Q&A videos used to be a staple of Google’s webmaster outreach efforts back when Matt Cutts was the head of webspam. This outreach tactic fell to the wayside when Cutts left Google to pursue other career interests. In lieu of Q&A videos, Google has been regularly conducting webmaster hangouts […]

Every designer loves breaking the rules every now and then. This month’s web design trends highlight some of the rebellious spirit in ways that look amazing. The key to all these rule-breaking designs is that the rest of the interface is simple and actually follows the rules. From text that […]

It’s true that 47 percent of people want web pages to load in two seconds or less (and 40 percent abandon sites that take three seconds to load). But when load times drop significantly below that two-second threshold, users start to get skeptical. To understand why, put yourself in the shoes of […]

Google is continuing its campaign toward a more responsive internet with advice on how to migrate separate mobile URLs into one. Site owners who went the mobile-friendly route with separate m-dot URLs, like m.example.com, may find themselves wanting a single responsive site. With any major site change, it’s important to be aware […]

Atom, GitHub’s text editor built on the Electron framework, is being fitted with IDE-like capabilities as a precursor to making the editor a full-fledged IDE. The first step in Atom’s transition from text editor to IDE is an optional package of features developed with Facebook called Atom-IDE. The package includes: smarter context-aware auto-completion […]

Love it or hate, JavaScript is everywhere. Recently, I took another step toward assimilation by attending the Big Nerd Ranch Front-end Essentials bootcamp. And… all biases aside, IT WAS GREAT! I began the week with two goals: How to even modern CSS? React Native sounds cool, but how to test? Thankfully, the […]