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The Developer’s Guide to the WebP Image Format

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The WebP image format is a new image encoding format that’s especially appealing to web developers. It can encode a high density of information within a given file size, allowing higher quality images at lower file sizes. Considering that images make up about 60-percent of the web, lower image file sizes mean faster loading pages, […]

How Ransomware Attacks Target WordPress Sites

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WordPress remains THE most popular platform for blogging and content management, with a a full 30% of websites on the internet using it. As a result of this popularity, hacking attempts and other instances of cybercrime, especially ransomware attacks, are on the rise. Starting in 2017, analysts began to see an increase of the EV […]

Logo Trends For 2019

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Having a logo for your business is pretty much a no-brainer. It’s synonymous to your brand’s identity, a visual representation that people will recognize immediately even without the company or product name. Knowing, understanding and applying wisely chosen trends in logo design to your emblem shows that your brand is contemporary and relevant to the […]

32 Creative and Funny Error Pages

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There aren’t a lot of places on a web design where you get to tell jokes. Error pages and source code are one of the few places you can hide your humor. Spelunkers of source code know you can find job listings, inside jokes, Monty Python references and more with the “View Source” button. Error […]

Website Security 101: What Every Developer Should Know

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Modern web development must overcome challenges like accessibility, responsive design, and security. Unfortunately, these challenges are often overlooked or ignored. Websites are prone to security risks because they connect to web servers. There are anticipated risks such as misuse of network resources by employees. However, your web server and the site it hosts presents your […]

Setting Up Linux for Children

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If you’ve been around computers for a while, you might associate Linux with a certain stereotype of a certain type of computer user. How do you know someone uses Linux? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. But don’t let Linux’s bad press derail your experimentation! It’s the last frontier for customization in desktop machines, and it’s […]

How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public

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Have you been toiling away on your website for the past several months? Before you launch that bad boy, click here to learn how to test a website first. Launching a new website can be exciting. It’s important that you don’t let your excitement overpower your rational thinking. No matter how excited you are in […]

5 Great Tools to Help You Build HTML5 Forms

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We are living in a world where we try to automate everything we can, and web design isn’t an exception, so we have a suite of tools capable of generating HTML pages without writing any line of code. In this article we will focus on some of the most popular dedicated tools for generating HTML […]

The Best Ways to Dispose of Your iPhone, iPad, or Mac

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Fall is a wonderful time of year for Apple fans. It’s the time of year when we all start to actually get our hands on the new iPhones and other devices Apple launched during their fall event. And with new devices comes the need to do something with the old devices. Rather than letting your […]