It’s too easy to fall into a rut with your SEO audits. If it doesn’t meet best practices it ought to be fixed, right? Not always. Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it’s important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with your time and effort. In…
In the previous post, I shared a basic primer for how database-backed applications – specifically WordPress – work without caching. And before we talk about how basic caching works in WordPress, namely with the Transients API, it’s important to discuss the basic principles of caching. This includes why we do it, its benefits, and how…
It’s a little over a month since my release of the Osore Lightroom Presets and decided to upload the shots I posted on Instagram on my Behance Profile as well. Introducing Osore 一か月 (Ichi-Kagetsu) which simply means “one month”. It has been a nice ride so far because I never expected to get such a…
By Digital Arts Staff | on August 14, 2019 The Digital Arts YouTube channel is here, bringing the best creators working with the best tools out there, leading in the fields of branding and graphic design, illustration, animation, VR and VFX. Yep – Digital Arts finally has a YouTube channel, and it’s about time seeing as…
About The Author Rachel Andrew is not only Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including … More about Rachel Andrew … Writing for a publication such as Smashing Magazine can help to build your reputation as an expert.…
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs. That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s in or…
Last week, security researchers revealed a staggering 35 vulnerabilities in printers from six household name brands. It highlighted the continued threat to organizations from their PC peripherals, and as printers become more powerful and connected, the risks will only increase. One 2017 study claimed that 61% of large enterprises had suffered at least one data…
This week, Andrea Cruz, digital marketing manager at KoMarketing noticed text ad headlines and descriptions getting cut off and wondered if is new. I looked back at some older screenshots of search results and didn’t see truncation happening very often. But now I’m easily able to replicate the kind of result Andrea saw, including in…
Search for information about SEO, and you’ll quickly discover three big themes: content, user experience, and links. If you’re just getting started with SEO, that last theme will likely seem a lot more confusing and challenging than the others. That’s because, while content and user experience are under the realm of our control, links aren’t……
In the most recent post of this series (which is admittedly some time ago), I talked at length about Composer and its lock file. I recommend reading the previous two articles because Composer is eventually going to play a role in this material that this and future posts are going to share. But if you…
