For those aspiring web developers out there, I thought I would share this excellent article by Randy Syring. I wish I had heard this advice years ago. …at the beginning of your career, it is essential to get a deep knowledge in one language.. Advice to Aspiring Developers
JavaScript and the DOM
JavaScript interacts with it’s world which is the web page. The web page is also called the DOM. DOM stands for Document Object Model. It really is nothing more than a way we all agree to name elements on a web page, instead of calling the various parts of the page, “that doohickey thing.” In… [Read More]
WordPress.com for Google Docs
WordPress.com and Google Docs have partnered up! You can now write your blog posts in Google Docs, add links and images, and then save the entire document (images and all) as a draft in WordPress. How cool is that! Self-hosted sites get the feature too! While WordPress.com is always working to add features to keep… [Read More]
Ten Great Podcasts About WordPress
I enjoy listening to podcasts. I love to learn. Where else can you learn about WordPress, listen to world-class speakers, and gain new skills, all while driving to work? Even before podcasts became popular, Zig Ziglar promoted what he called, “automobile university.” Zig encouraged you to use your automobile daily driving time to learn and grow…. [Read More]
How to Use a FTP Client
If you would like to learn to use a FTP client to upload files from your Mac to your self-hosted WordPress installation then I have a video for you! Learning to use FTP is easy, once someone shows you how to do it. I recently set up my own self-hosted WordPress website. Being a newbie… [Read More]