How to Leverage Email Marketing for Better Blog Readership

Blogging and email marketing are two channels that aren’t always automatically used together – be it by companies with commercial blogs or full-time bloggers. But when it comes to having and growing a blog, using your email database in a smart way can make the difference between the success or stagnation of your readership. Regardless …
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20+ Best Fonts for Flyers

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project. Whether you’re working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, […]
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ABeamer: a frame-by-frame animation framework

In a recent post, Zach Saucier demonstrated the awesome things that the DOM allows us to do, thanks to the <canvas> element. Taking a snapshot of an element and manipulating it to create an exploding animation is pretty slick and a perfect example of how far complex animations have come in the last few years.

ABeamer is a new animation ecosystem that takes advantage of these new concepts. At the core of the ecosystem is the web browser animation …

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“Old Guard”

Someone asked Chris Ferdinandi what his biggest challenge is as a web developer:

… the thing I struggle the most with right now is determining when something new is going to change the way our industry works for the better, and when it’s just a fad that will fade away in a year or three.

I try to avoid jumping from fad to fad, but I also don’t want to be that old guy who misses out on something that’s …

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Oakley Capital to Acquire cPanel

cPanel, the makes of control panel software used by many hosting providers across the globe, has announced it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Oakley Capital. Oakley Capital is a private equity investor that invests in companies primarily located in Western Europe. Financial details of the impending acquisition (more…)
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The Real Story on Cookies: Dispelling Common Myths About the GDPR and Consent

Security, privacy, and related topics have been all over the news in recent months. Much of this is due to the roll-out of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a new set of legal rules regarding the way personal data must be handled. Of course, the GDPR isn’t the only topic of discussion. Cookies …
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What I learned by building my own VS Code extension

VS Code is slowly closing the gap between a text editor and an interactive development environment (IDE). At the core of this extremely versatile and flexible tool lies a wonderful API that provides an extensible plugin model that is relatively easy for JavaScript developers to build on. With my first extension, VS Code All Autocomplete, reaching 25K downloads, I wanted to share what I learned from the development and maintenance of it with all of you.

Trivia! Visual Studio …

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The Best CSS Gradient Generators for Designers

We’re taking a look at ten of the best CSS gradient generators that you can use to create a variety of gradient styles (and have the CSS output directly!). Coding a gradient by hand is no fun (especially once you get past a simple two-color gradient), so these tools are a must-have in your bookmark […]
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5 Tips for Making Better Video

Everywhere you look, there’s video. From social media sites to full-scale web projects, a video can be an integral part of today’s online user experience. We have five tips to help you make any web video better, and improve the quality of what you publish. While some projects require the time commitment of a professional […]
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