What Is SEO? SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the optimization of a web site in order to rank higher in search results. That way, your site can be one of the first things people see when they enter a certain search term. Let’s say you had a bakery in Los Angeles and you wanted […]
Add improved digital marketing to your list of mid-year resolutions. Move over direct messages, because there’s a new DM in town. If you’re thinking of sliding in to this skyrocketing market, I’d like to congratulate you on a thought well done. Recently, a Forrester report found that U.S. spending on digital marketing would reach $146 […]
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Paying The Bills: Help Wanted
Some Companies Still Hiring Not only did Congress just pass an enormous stimulus bill to assist individuals with paying the bills, as well as small businesses, while the virus spreads across the United States, but there are also quite a few companies actually expanding their workforce right now. There are a range of companies, especially […]
If you want to get started with SEO, but you don’t want to shell out big bucks to hire an expert, then read this post. Not only will I go over a few basic SEO “tricks”, but I’ll also share a few invaluable resources with you to set you on the right path. 4 SEO […]
HTML For WordPress WordPress features a block editor now that makes pages super easy to create, but if you want more control over your web pages, you’ll want to learn some HTML and some CSS, too. In this post, we’ll be focusing on the HTML part. Headings Headings are some of the simplest HTML elements. […]
Why You Should Protect Yourself For those who don’t understand the importance of being equipped and able to protect yourself online, I’d like to point you to an article I read recently on TechWalla.com. The article, aptly titled Why Is Internet Security Important?, outlines 5 different reasons as to why it is imperative that you […]
A Little Context For Education For All I wrote in a previous blog post that I’ve used the online course platform Udemy as a tool for learning web development. As someone who didn’t finish college and as someone who also hasn’t always had a lot of money to his name, it played a significant role […]
There Are Many Benefits To Bootstrapping Your Business This my argument for bootstrapping a business as opposed to going out and soliciting funding for it from the “get-go”. What I mean when I say “bootstrap” is that you’re focusing on funding the business mostly yourself. Maybe your parents or significant other throw in a few […]
What Are JavaScript Modules? So, what are they? This is a little bit of a tricky question, because JavaScript modules can be a lot of things. Fortunately, this doesn’t mean that they’re tricky themselves. This non-specificity actually adds a ton of valuable functionality to them. If you’ve ever used Node.js before, then you almost certainly […]
What Are Custom Elements? One of the more exciting updates to the JavaScript language, in my opinion, and many others, is JavaScript components. The update gives the ability to create custom HTML elements with JavaScript and use them within your HTML. If you’ve used React, the UI framework, then you’ve seen something very similar in […]