WebDevStudios’ HQ is in Philly, but our team is internationally distributed and every single member of our team is a telecommuter. We’re a virtual office! That means that although we all talk to each other often, we don’t see each other much–in...
Read More Out of Office (Sorta): WDS Camp starts next week!Category: Employee Post
White Space and the Fallacy of ‘Above the Fold’
The amount of information available on our screens is overwhelming. I say “screens” because we interact with so many throughout the day: smartphones, laptops, desktops, watches, televisions. Even my dentist’s office has a screen in each room that usually plays a screensaver, but is...
Read More White Space and the Fallacy of ‘Above the Fold’Dre Armeda Becomes a Partner at WebDevStudios!
A little over one year ago, taco fanatic and stellar beard owner Dre Armeda joined the WebDevStudios team as our VP of Operations. In that time, Dre has done what he does best: kick ass, take names, and make things happen. As...
Read More Dre Armeda Becomes a Partner at WebDevStudios!Let’s Talk Cron
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...
Read More Let’s Talk CronPrestige Conference, WDS is Coming Your Way!
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...
Read More Prestige Conference, WDS is Coming Your Way!How to Produce a High Quality Screencast
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 Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and You
Today, JavaScript fills every aspect of our online lives: it checks your e-mail in the background, it guides your online shopping cart, and it even autosaves your blog post as you write. From the client to the server, JavaScript is everywhere. Sometimes it’s hard...
Read More The Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and YouThe Questions You Need to Ask When Building a Team
Building a team is one of the hardest things to do, and yet it’s so crucial to creating a sustaining, successful business with happy employees. We’ve heard Brad share his basic philosophy on this a few times, and the value of it...
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