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A Guide to 2017 Conferences

Back by popular demand! It’s difficult to keep track of all of the great talks and conferences happening in our industry. Sometimes you may find out too late that an event is taking place, and it’s a real shame when it’s an something you might have attended. We’ve compiled this list so you can s...

High Performance SVGs

I recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. They called me in because the majority of the images on that site were SVGs, and they were animated. I trained the team how to decrease the file size on the SVGs while preser...

Getting Started with the WordPress Customizer

The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell, a WordPress theme & plugin developer in Anchorage, AK and a regular contributor around here. Let’s say you have a client whose business is large enough to have several departments. Now let’s say that this client wants each of their departments to have the...

Understanding JavaScript Constructors

The following is a guest post by Faraz Kelhini. Some of this stuff is out of my comfort zone, so I asked Kyle Simpson to tech check it for me. Kyle’s answer (which we did during an Office Hours session) was very interesting. It was: 1) This article is technically sound. JavaScript doesn’t really have classe...