Providing scalable and resilient service to a growing customer base across the Internet is very complex. At the end of the day, it’s your job to make good decisions about how to use their services. when your client asks you if something should run in the cloud, you need to ask questions like: How much does it need to scale? How fast does it need to run for users around the world? How complex is the software you need to run? In this article, Zack Grossbart & Eduardo Abe will help you with that.
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You’ve proven your expertise in designing mobile-first websites for clients. It might be time you made a move into designing mobile-first marketing campaigns for them as well. With this guide, Suzanne Scacca explains how to do just that. She will examine the key areas of marketing that stem from the websites you build. Then, zero in on the ways in which designers should adjust these marketing strategies for mobile-friendly and mobile-first audiences.
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As a web designer, you might think that what you get paid to build websites doesn’t matter so long as you have money in the bank. But it does. If you want to remain competitive within the space, make sure to charge within one of the estimated ranges mentioned in this article — at least, to start. Then, as your business grows, you can steadily raise your prices in line with the increasing value of the websites you build. With this guide, Suzanne Scacca breaks down three ways you can charge for your design services and help you find the perfect rate to charge clients in 2019.
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Whenever project managers try to manage their team using spreadsheets alone, they usually face some problems. Reporting and documenting with spreadsheets can become quite a time-consuming task. Today, Nick Babich will like to introduce Float, an app that makes it so much easier for product managers to keep a good overview on the tasks of the entire team and everyone involved. Float makes it easy to see everything you need to know about your team’s projects in a single place, giving project managers the information and functionality they need to handle the fast-paced world of digital design and development. Let’s get started!
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Tired of hearing about cryptocurrency? It’s high time we took a closer look at hyperlinks and how they are one of the biggest currencies in the SEO world. With this quick field guide, Myriam Jessier & Stéphanie Walter aim to help you protect your website, improve your marketing or simply discover why so many people troll the comments section with strange links! You are about to go through a linkbuilding crash course.
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Involving other people early on — especially people from other disciplines — can feel scary. By taking inspiration from code reviews, we can improve collaboration both within our own fields as well as across disciplines, be it design, UX, content or development. No one is really promoting waterfall processes anymore. So how can you involve people early on so that you’re avoiding the waterfall, but also making sure that you’re not setting yourself up for design by committee? Ida Aalen found her answer when learning about code reviews.
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Most web professionals like to see their influence felt in web design projects as early as possible, in order to make sure what they have to say gets heard. Let’s go through each aspect of the design process, talking about SEO questions along the way.
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How do you arrange all the sections in your résumé when applying for a job position? What’s the order that you are supposed to follow? Are all of the sections necessary? This is where understanding résumé layouts and formats becomes important so that you can stand out from the crowd. Aditya Sharma dedicates this guide to all the web developers out there and it will demonstrate how you can create a successful résumé that will get you more shortlists than you can fathom. If it’s a piece of paper that is standing between you and your dream job, it’s time to show who’s the boss.
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Let’s say you want to reach out to a business. What would be the first thing you would do? Probably you would look up their website to search for answers to your questions or simply any contact details you can find. With no doubt, the first impression of any website is now more important than ever. There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet right now, and the number is growing. What makes your website stand out? In order to make sure your website is a success, it’s important to keep the big picture in mind.
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Design’s role in companies is becoming less about visual appeal and more about hitting business goals and creating value for users. Therefore, the need to build teams with diverse perspectives is becoming imperative. This article is for people who are part of a design team (or any team) that makes crucial business decisions with stakeholders and how they might go about building a diverse team through the use of the Competing Values Framework evaluation.
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