Filed under community, Opinion column by Louis Lazaris
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I don’t think anyone can deny that the Web has changed the way people teach, learn, and do research. Of course, this doesn’t mean that everything we read online is true and accurate—far from it.
But I believe that through honest discussion and objective collaboration, accurate and useful information is much more likely to be the end result of any educational endeavor.
Continue Reading "Publish What You Learn"Filed under community, Contest, Contests, creativity, Giveaway, Graphic design, threadless, tshirts for designers by Walter
We at Webdesigner Depot are big fans of Threadless and you can often see us sporting their awesome t-shirts. They’re a lot of fun and feature some awesome designs that often spark conversation. One of the great things we love about Threadless is that the designs are submitted by designers like you and get voted [...]
Continue Reading "Win $500 worth of Threadless merchandise"Filed under community, Opinion column, Tutorials by Christian Heilmann
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A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic example of a tutorial resulting in very happy readers who will go out and cause a lot of terrible things on the Web unless they understand that this was meant as a “beginner tutorial”. A lot of the bad feedback was about security — something we shouldn’t take lightly.
It frustrated me mostly because it all happened on Smashing Magazine, a well-respected online publication that is read by many beginners (especially in back-end technologies) and one that is dedicated to quality content with an advisory board (one of which is me) meaning that every article gets reviewed by experts before it is published. This one slipped by in the rush of the holidays, and it was updated a couple of hours after it was published, i.e. the editors added an editor’s note and addressed some important missing points. I am happy that it was published in its original form as it inspired me to point out some things that I see happening in online magazines a lot lately.
Continue Reading "Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?"Filed under Coding, community by Addy Osmani
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Many of us rely on open source tools, technologies and standards to help improve the work we do on a daily basis. None of this would however be possible without the hard work, commitment and dedication that others, just like you, have invested in giving back to the Web community over the past two decades.
Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate and jQuery are just a few examples of well known projects which were born from a desire to put something out there that could help others on the Web do more. These projects evolved because developers started using them and thought, “Hey, I could do something to help make this better. I bet it could save someone else’s time if I shared this with the world.”
Continue Reading "The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward"Filed under classes, college, community, conferences, Design, development, Education, Graphic design, jQuery by Cameron
Whether you are self-taught, fresh out of school, or a design veteran, continuing education has invaluable long-term effects on your ability to stay competitive and business savvy. The immediate benefits are also abundant. Emerging techniques you learn today can be applied to a client project tomorrow for added value, or to set your work apart [...]
Continue Reading "9 great resources for keeping your skills fresh"Filed under Business, collaboration, community, freelancing, networking, Talented People, team, Team Relationship Management by Brian Casel
Web design is a multidisciplinary craft. So why do so many of us try and do everything ourselves? Maybe it’s because we can. Our nature as web designers tells us to build things. We have the capability to handle just about every role in a web design project. If we don’t already have the expertise [...]
Continue Reading "Building your web design all-star team"Filed under community, Neighbors, Nextdoor, social networks, Web 2.0 by Jude Cavale
The latest social networking site on the block is ‘Nextdoor’. Nextdoor.com was announced on the 26th of October, and claims to be an intimate ‘neighbourhood-only’ networking site that lets people within a community to stay in to…
Continue Reading "Now A Social Networking Site for Neighborhoods"Filed under community, Neighbors, Nextdoor, social networks, Web 2.0 by Jude Cavale
The latest social networking site on the block is ‘Nextdoor’. Nextdoor.com was announced on the 26th of October, and claims to be an intimate ‘neighbourhood-only’ networking site that lets people within a community to stay in to…
Continue Reading "Now A Social Networking Site for Neighborhoods"Filed under community, Neighbors, Nextdoor, social networks, Web 2.0 by Jude Cavale
The latest social networking site on the block is ‘Nextdoor’. Nextdoor.com was announced on the 26th of October, and claims to be an intimate ‘neighbourhood-only’ networking site that lets people within a community to stay in to…
Continue Reading "Now A Social Networking Site for Neighborhoods"Filed under Balance, community, Inspiration, Interviews by FreelanceSwitch.com
Welcome to Part III of our series on civic mindedness. Previously we’ve heard from the head of the Northwest Freelancers Association in Washington State and a freelance public relations manager in Ohio. Today we talk with a top-notch profess…
Continue Reading "Importance of Community – Part III"Filed under Balance, communication, community, Inspiration, Interviews by FreelanceSwitch.com
Welcome to part two of our discussion on the importance of being civic minded. In researching people to interview on the topic, I virtually stumbled upon a website called Good Things Going Around. Owner Lisa Desatnik is a freelance public relation…
Continue Reading "Importance of Community – Part II"Filed under Business, community, Inspiration, Interviews, networking by FreelanceSwitch.com
Justin Knechtel lives in between the cities of Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, on Mercer Island. As the founder of the Northwest Freelancers Association (NWFA), an independent nonprofit organization, Knechtel works with freelancers throughout th…
Continue Reading "The Importance of Community – Part I"Filed under captcha, comment management, comment plugins, community, plugins, spam, Twitter, Wordpress, wordpress comments by Cameron
We’ve covered advanced commenting systems for WordPress before, but what about those bloggers who want to use the stock WordPress commenting system? Not everyone wants to manage a third-party comment system. And those are the users who will find the comment plugins below really useful. Below are eleven plugins that can handle everything from adding [...]
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