After a long break let’s take a look at another Static Generator – Hexo. Hexo is powered by Node.js and is mostly aimed at blogging. It has a deploy integration for GitHub which makes it a great fit to build a…
Static Website Generators – Part 2
We covered the fundamentals of static site generators recently. Let’s take a deeper dive into one of them. Jekyll Jekyll remains the most widely used static site generator. With Jekyll, you’ll typically work with content in Markdown, a lightweight markup…
Static Website Generators
What is a static website generator? A static site is a collection of pages contained in basic HTML files. A static site generator is a compromise between using a hand-coded static site and a full CMS. You generate an HTML-only website using raw data such as Markdown files and…
PHP 5 – End of Life
PHP Matters PHP is a commonly used language for web sites and web application development. It is a general purpose, server-side scripting language run a web server that’s designed to make dynamic pages and applications. PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting…
Accessibility and WordPress Gutenberg
What is WordPress Project Gutenberg? Gutenberg is more than an editor. While the editor is the focus right now, the project will ultimately impact the entire publishing experience including customization (the next focus area). Gutenberg looks at the editor as…
How Cyber Security is changing the web design industry
Today’s article is from our member Julia Eudy. Julia – Many thanks for writing this article and providing your insights. When I think of the industry of web design, I think of the many talented people responsible for populating the…
January WordPress update
As a web professional, you are likely aware that WordPress is used as the principle technology for over 25% of the top 10 million websites (actually now 29% based on the December WordCamp US State of the Word 2017). To…
Top 7 Popular WordPress Plugins for Successful Blogging
The following article was written by Helen Miller. Helen Miller is a freelance author who is always inspired to write on web-design and web-development up-to-date subjects. Helen has a great interest in IT sphere and always has fresh ideas to…
Interview with David Braun from TemplateMonster
We had the opportunity to communicate with David Braun (co-founder and CEO of TemplateMonster.com) recently. TemplateMonster is a marketplace featuring 46,000 templates for many different types of websites. Why should Web Professionals care about this? TemplateMonster can save you time…
Comparison of content management systems
We have previously mentioned this infographic in some of our social media feeds (Twitter and Facebook). We thought it might be helpful to provide this on our blog as well (with the author’s permission). In our opinion, it is a…