Criteria for being a competitive online business generally fall into two categories – qualifiers and competes. Having a responsive website is not a competitive advantage. A responsive website is a qualifier for a business to exist. Legitimate businesses – small, large, local, and abroad – have a website. Qualifiers are the bare minimum. They’re the basics and essentials that a …
The Best Digital Marketing Agencies Are Experts at Becoming Experts
Choosing the right digital marketing agency to work with your small business isn’t about finding the company who has experience in your industry. It’s about finding the creatives who thoughtfully highlight and leverage your business’s uniqueness to beat out your competition. Embrace What Makes Your Business Your Business The best digital marketing agencies to work with aren’t the ones with …
How to Use Media Queries to Develop Responsive Mobile-First CSS Stylesheets
Want to know how to use media queries to develop responsive mobile-first CSS stylesheets? Media queries load CSS styles conditionally based on the size of the current user’s browser. Media queries aren’t new to CSS, but there’s still a lot of website developers doing them wrong when their goal is mobile first development. Min-Width vs. Max-Width Media Queries Max-width media …
How to Add Full Page YouTube Video Backgrounds That Auto-Play on Mute to Your Website or Landing Page
Want to know how to add full page YouTube video backgrounds that auto-play on mute to your website or landing page? If the video owner has left the share->embed feature available to you then they have consented to allow you usage of the video on their website. Occasionally, you may run into someone who doesn’t agree with that policy and who …
Top 5 Easy On-Site SEO Boosters You Can Do Right Now
Boosting on-site SEO is one of the easiest ways to boost your natural search engine rankings. Essentially, if you look respectable then you’re going to seem respectable. It’s simple search engine psychology 101.
How BEM benefits a front-end web developer
BEM seems to be all the rage for front-end developers working with CSS. At least, I’ve been CSS’ing with BEM on every project I’ve worked on since 2016. OOP Organizational Structure for CSS BEM is an organizational syntax, but it’s also a methodology. There’s no one right way to BEM your stylesheet code, but there are definitely ways that are better …