Tag: ideas
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Wrangling With WordPress Database Prefixes
About a week ago, I was tasked to migrate a Disaster Accountability Project’s website from Bluehost to Namecheap. Migrations are usually seamless if the provider(s) allow some symbiotic connection between the two. Case in point: when I worked with Educate Radiate Elevate, they moved their server from a UK-based system to A2 Hosting.
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Trending Tech: HTMX
I first heard of this technology from Siegfried, deploy! podcast, episode #41. Didn’t think too much about it until another recent article came up in my feed today from Infoworld. This got me thinking about the uniqueness of HTML attributes again. In the past attributes have been used for a variety of things for the…
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Comparing Simple Theme Builder Options With CMS Platforms
Let’s start by comparing the biggest divisions in website development. The advent of this division started as early back as I can remember around 2008 which was my first experience with anything related to software as a service (SAAS). At the time, open-source platforms such as WordPress and Drupal dominated the field of website development.…
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Design Tokens
Okay, so here we go down memory lane. Back in my days as a design student in college, we were always told to have consistency in our design compositions. Everything from color, typography, imagery, weights of lines, balanced use of similar shapes. But then in senior year, the professors allow us to break out of…
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Monthly Site Audits
After a successful launch of a website, what do you suppose is the first thing you need to set up on your calendar? Reminders, and lots of them! Billing is one of them. Content creation is another. Written blog articles, social media posts, and downloadable content such as pictures, videos, and other various files. All…
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The Rise of AI Assistance
During an all-hands-on-deck meeting at a former company, the execs shared with us their latest strategy and vision for the upcoming year. One of the major highlights revolved around the usage of artificial intelligence. AI-generated artwork and believable articles that covered current events from the news were presented as samples. After the presentation, a discussion…
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Why I Switched Back to WordPress for Blogging
For the past 10 plus years, I’ve blogged from various platforms in order to experiment with their scalability, and usability. I initially started with WordPress, but as I quickly discovered other content management systems or web publishing platforms, I of course gave them a shot.