Tag: Learning

  • What Plugins Do I Need On My Site?

    If you own and run a WordPress site one question you may find yourself asking is what plugins do I need on my site? Currently there are over 55,000 plugins on the WordPress repository. Aside from plugins you can find on the repo, there are more that you can purchase from other sites or find…

  • Static Sites vs a CMS

    If you look around the web industry you will run into the terms static sites and CMS. What are they, and when should you use one over the other? What is a website? To give a clear answer on static sites vs a cms you have to know what a website actually is. A website…

  • What Do I Need To Start A Website?

    Starting something can always seem like a daunting task when you’re looking at a blank screen. Many who need a site will find themselves asking, what do I need to start a website? Getting a website up and running has a pretty straightforward process. You basically need three things, a host, a domain name, and…

  • WordPress and Twig

    A few years ago there was an article on CSS Tricks introducing developers to a library called Timber. Timber allows developers to write WordPress themes using Twig. Twig is a php templating engine that has become very popular in php communities. The popularity of Twig even led Drupal to incorporate it in version 8. Because…

  • Online Learning

    I’m a huge fan of online learning. If it hadn’t been for online learning, I would not be in the web industry in the first place. Let me give you a little backstory. My original degree was in building race cars for the NASCAR industry, I graduated though in the middle of the recession in…