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What is Responsive and Why Should I Care?

What is responsive? A responsive website is a single website that displays differently depending on the user’s device.  For example, the site would display and navigate differently on your phone than it would on your desktop computer.  There are generally … Continue reading

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Three Ways to Follow Through this Week

The world will never read a book called  Thousands of Ideas that People Had. The world buys up books about people that not only had an idea, but worked their tails off to take something from the hypothetical to the … Continue reading

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The Perfect Front-End Dev Setup

Man, I love our new Dev Cave here at eyespeak. It’s the perfect place to shut the door and crank out some code. One of the cool things is that we have a Windows machine in there. It’s a necessary … Continue reading

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Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – case study

Crossfit has expanded to a huge, global community over the past five years.  That expansion has also fueled the already intense competitive nature you hear everyone talk about in their gym or box.  If you visit crossfit.com (the HQ site … Continue reading

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Redirect Non-Logged-In WordPress Users

So, I’m creating a site that will only have a login screen and a logged in area. In other words, there should be no other viewable page other than my login screen if you’re not logged in. Below is how … Continue reading

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Pixel Perfection

User-interface (UI) design is an often underappreciated skill due to the consumer-perceived nature of design. To many people it seems that UI is just composed of various shapes, boxes, text and lines that are then handed off to the real … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence and Fascination

A few years back I was given the challenge of describing myself in one word, the one adjective that I would want to describe me long after I leave this Earth. I had a lot of the obvious terms come … Continue reading

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Sites Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Grow – Part Two

In part one of this two-part post, we danced with the importance of scalability in web applications. Part two is a brief tutorial on building scalable applications. For this example, we will be using basic PHP code with MySQL database … Continue reading

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Sites Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Grow – Part One

A popular topic among webventurers these days is scalability—the concept of planning for growth. It’s a hot topic on everyone’s minds because no site should be afraid to grow. Any web developer worth his weight in semicolons knows that if … Continue reading

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Secure Websites

Holy crap, guess what I just found out? Newer versions of PLESK (in my case 10.4) can house secure and non-secure content in the same folder by default. This is awesome news because I’m currently installing a certificate for a … Continue reading

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