The power of a reference file system often goes unappreciated. As any knowledge worker worth his salt will tell you, you can’t hold every bit of information you receive in your head. No matter how spacious your mind is, you will eventually forget something important or let a good idea slip away. This is where having a more rigorous file program can ease the load.
Continue reading –>Cool Tools
Welcome to a realm of elevated web hosting experiences where innovation meets efficiency. From educators to entrepreneurs, these tools hold the key to unlocking a new era of productivity and creativity within your web hosting journey. Join us in exploring the vast potential of Moodle, Evernote, Trello, and more, and witness your digital endeavors flourish as you’ve never imagined.
Doom Emacs: An Emacs For Vim Users
If you’re in the market for a fast and dangerous text editor with all the bells and whistles you’ve probably looked at Vim and Emacs and, maybe, shook your head and gave up. They’re too old, too difficult, yet somehow intriguing. But which one to choose? They both have their pros and cons.
Continue reading –>3 Ways to Create a Local PHP Development Environment
For many users just starting out in web development, one of the greatest challenges is not learning the code itself but seeing your results in the browser. The problem is, you need to first set up a proper PHP development environment to get your code to run in the browser.
Continue reading –>How to Use Emojis That Will Get You Seen
Emojis aren’t just for text messages anymore. 🙂
These days you’re likely going to see emoji icons popping up in email subject headings, blog posts, and even in printed media.
Continue reading –>You like lobsters? Check out how the lobster emoji has risen in popularity over the past few years. You gotta love these little crustaceans.
Best Practices for Social Media Marketing in the Upcoming Year
These days, having a strong social media presence is no longer an option – it’s a necessity. According to research, 40% of young adults follow their favorite brands via social media. One in four of those users follows a brand from which they might make a purchase. With numbers like that, you just can’t afford to miss out. Continue reading –>
What is Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) and Why Should I Consider Using It?
Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite, is Google’s answer to a number of different productivity problems facing most companies and organizations.
In one suite of tools, it offers solutions for email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation decks, shared calendars, cloud storage, virtual conferencing, and much more. It offers these solutions at an affordable entry point of $6 per month per user. But, what do each of its tools have to offer your organization?
Continue reading –>Introduction to Softaculous & cPanel
Our recent offering of the software “Softaculous” has probably left many of you wondering what it is and how can it help you. Softaculous is a utility application within your cPanel used to help develop your websites. It’s an auto installer program that comes with over 278 useful scripts and 1000 PHP Classes, any of which can be installed in just one step. In simpler terms, it’s a one-step method of installing useful apps, eCommerce solutions and CMSs to your website.
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Color Pallete Generators
There are a number of color palette generators out there, all with their own perks and special features. These are my top ones to go to because to me they’re the simplest ones to experiment with and I get what I want the quickest. Continue reading –>
Website Highlight: The Best Designs
The hardest part of starting a new business is figuring out where to begin, let alone the design of your company website. For inspiration, I get my feet wet by going to TheBestDesigns.com. It helps you get familiar with what the current standards of design are and it spurs up ideas that may work for you. Even if you’re not a designer, you can get ideas of what you want and what direction you want your company to go. Not all of the examples are standard business websites. They cover an array of websites, but it’s interesting to see what concepts people come up with when they’re not restricted by basic business type restrictions. Continue reading –>
Pin this FB Filmstrip Hack [Cool Facebook Template]
A little while ago we published a Photoshop Template complete with Guidelines so you could create your own Facebook Page Timeline cover. Now here’s a quirky template for you to customize presentations of your Facebook Albums on the Timeline. Continue reading –>
Decisions: Mac Book Air vs Mac Book Pro Retina
Help Maria out everybody. She’s been anxiously waiting the release of the Mac Book Retina Pro these last few weeks, and to add to the painfully slow decision we’re all following, everyone else in the office is jumping on the consumerism bandwagon and talking up the next latest tech buy. Continue reading –>
Smarten up your Facebook Brand Page with our Adobe Template
We’ve put together a Facebook Template Download of some standard facebook sizes:
- Facebook Cover Photo 851 x 315 px
- Facebook Profile Photo 160 x 160 px
- Facebook Tab Photos 112 x 75 px
Now to get started, what I really mean by ‘Smarting up your Facebook Brand Page’ is actually a double-entendre. I won’t go into the specifics of setting up Facebook Timeline here, because I’ve given you the template, and aspects of design related optimization are a whole area of study. Continue reading –>
WordPress Essentials by Industry [Infographic]
We host every kind of industry website you can imagine, a large proportion of which are WordPress based platforms. So, we’ve decided to put together a table of the top tweaks that webmasters were applying to their WordPress CMS (by industry), to save you the build time when it comes to seeing what they recommend. Continue reading –>
So you want to begin #HTML5 Animation?
A while ago we produced the HTML5 Cheat sheets that went down a treat amongst pro web developers. But what about those of us who are completely new to HTML5 and want to take advantage of it’s powerful features without the in depth coding knowledge? Continue reading –>
Dropbox and Google Drive
How Dropbox is keeping my business.
I’ve had a free Dropbox account for a couple of years now. It’s a very handy way to keep files and information that you need frequently in the cloud. Very straightforward and easy to use. As the name implies, just drop some files into your Dropbox folder, and everything gets synced and stored in the cloud. Continue reading –>