Decades ago, at a Voices that Matter conference sponsored by Peachpit Press in Boston, MA, I met Molly E. Holzschlag. Molly, a book author and luminary was more than a colleague to me, we were friends. Teaming together, we spent…
2020 Web Design Challenge Results
Gold Medal Winners of the 2020 Web Design and Development Competition Announced WebProfessionals.org is pleased to announce the Gold medal winners of the 2020 “Virtual” Web Design Challenge This year’s innovative and totally online event invited and challenged Challengers documented…
WebProfessionals.org Certifies U.S. Rural High School Students
First in Nation to Earn STEM/STEAM Stackable International Industry-Recognized Certifications developed by Webprofessionals.org Haven, Kansas May 6, 2019 – Three Haven High School Students are the first in the U.S. to earn Associate Level Web Developer WebProfessionals.org stacking certifications from…
How To Transition From a Career in Manufacturing to Web Design and Development
Today I read about another major auto manufacturer laying off employees. My heart goes out to the employees who have spent years working for companies that shut down on just a moment’s notice. At one time, working in auto production…
Successful 16th Annual Web Contest
We believe 2019 saw our most successful web design and development competition ever. We held this in Louisville, KY, during the last week of June. Our competition is one of 103 individual competitions at SkillsUSA Nationals. Competitors must win first…
Static website generators – part 3
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…
Our certification process
Recently, I was asked to document how we develop our certification exams. I thought it might be helpful for visitors to this blog to better understand the process as well. We always try to keep our certifications in line with…
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…