We’ve all heard about it, and we’ve all had to deal with it: Missed posts! It’s especially painful if you depend on your post content to get out on time, or worse, if you’re scheduling your posts to a social media outlet...
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How to View a Locally Developed Website on Other Devices
We’ve talked earlier about using Vagrant and VVV for local development, and now it’s time to take it a step further. Taking mobile devices into account when developing a website is no longer optional; it’s a requirement. That leaves you with a...
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Another spectacular Prestige Conference is coming up this weekend, August 1st-2nd, 2015, and we CANNOT WAIT to get ourselves to Minneapolis! Like PressNomics, Prestige is a tech conference that focuses on business and career development, rather than tech itself; most of the presentations...
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No one likes reading, right? I mean, why are you even reading this sentence instead of surfing YouTube looking at cat videos? As a culture, we often to gravitate toward passive entertainment–information flung at us without us having to do a whole lot of work...
Read More How to Produce a High Quality ScreencastAnticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact Form
Every company in the world is trying to sell an experience—from Apple to McDonalds to Disney World. Whether we’re truly aware of it all the time, we’re experiencing things every second. Someone is either selling us the experience itself, or that experience...
Read More Anticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact FormThe Custom Post Type UI Million Download Celebration
In the spring of 2013, I was moved into a “Plugin Czar” position within WebDevStudios. This meant that I was now in charge of the support, maintenance, and development of many of our free plugins available on our WordPress.org account. Custom Post...
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Oh snap! It’s summer and some of our rad WDS-ers are prepping for WordCamp Milwaukee 2015, which is July 24th-26th! Several of our rockstar folks will be speaking, and you won’t want to miss it! Although I find it hard to believe that...
Read More WordCamp Milwaukee 2015! We see you rounding the bend!Staging Websites for Safe Development
Imagine you have been evaluating your web presence and have determined that there are tasks you need to work on to improve your website. After careful deliberation, your team has identified points A, B, and C are all either not working, or...
Read More Staging Websites for Safe DevelopmentA Few Friday Announcements!
HAPPY FRIDAY, FRIENDS! First of all, please join us in welcoming yet ANOTHER DEVELOPER to WebDevStudios, and, more specifically, the Maintainn team! Zach Stepek is the newest member of our goofy and talented group! Pop over to the Maintainn blog to find out...
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