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Text Editing Tips And Tricks Roundup Text Editing Tips And Tricks Roundup Rachel Andrew 2018-07-23T13:30:35+02:00 2018-07-23T12:05:20+00:00 We asked the Smashing Community for their favorite text editing tricks, shortcuts, and features that save them time. Here’s a roundup of what we’ve found quite useful along with a couple of other suggestions you may find handy. Favourite…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Report: Smart speaker ownership driving voice adoption on smartphones Jul 20, 2018 by Greg Sterling But 38% also said they bought a smart speaker ‘to reduce screen time’. Planning to make…
NPR and Edison Research have released a new “smart audio” report. It’s the third installment of research that began in 2017, intended to investigate device adoption and evolving consumer interaction with smart speakers. Extrapolating from a sample of just over 900 respondents, the report asserts that 18 percent of all Americans now own a smart…
Webfonts And Performance: SmashingConf Videos Webfonts And Performance: SmashingConf Videos The Smashing Editorial 2018-07-20T14:35:35+02:00 2018-07-21T10:55:17+00:00 Webfonts are difficult to get right. An often overlooked and disruptive piece of web performance, webfonts can slow down your site and leave your visitors confused and agitated. No one wants agitated visitors. Webfonts Are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science Recorded at…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Going on the offensive: The use of attack sites in reputation management Jul 19, 2018 by Chris Silver Smith Contributor Chris Silver Smith discusses counterattack campaigns, how they are used and…
In Online Reputation Management (ORM) cases where there is no realistic option to sue for defamation, reputation repair typically involves merely using a defensive approach, in which you focus on displacing negative content through optimizing positive content. An unspoken secret of the industry is the use of a counterattack campaign to attempt to pressure the…
Animating SVG Files With SVGator Animating SVG Files With SVGator The Smashing Editorial 2018-07-19T14:00:00+02:00 2018-07-19T12:32:23+00:00 (This article is kindly sponsored by SVGator.) Animated SVG files have become very popular. They are entirely scalable (because they are vectors), small and 100% code-based, which allows for so many transformations and tweaks. This, however, comes at a price:…
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter intends to open verification to everyone as it works to improve the health of the platform. But, according to a recent update from Twitter’s new head of products, Kayvon Beykpour, the company is pausing its work on the verification process to give its full…
Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock.com Following today’s record antitrust fine imposed on Google parent Alphabet in Europe, US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons said he will “take a close look” at the European Commission (EC) decision. Simons also told Reuters he had spoken to EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager about the penalty. While…
Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide Myriam Jessier & Stéphanie Walter 2018-07-18T13:35:07+02:00 2018-07-18T12:26:39+00:00 Before buying followers on Instagram was a common practice, before Russian trolls made fake news an Olympic sport, we had linkbuilding. Today, we still have linkbuilding, its just that you haven’t noticed it — or have you? Welcome,…