Jekyll is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to WordPress. It often gets pigeonholed as a tool developers use to build their personal blog. That’s just the tip of the iceberg — it’s capable of so much more! In this article, we’ll take on the role of a web developer building a website for a…
Bots and Artificial Intelligence are probably the most hyped concepts right now. And while some people praise the existing technologies, others claim they don’t fear AI at all, citing examples where it fails horribly. Examples of Facebook or Amazon advertising (both claim to use machine learning) that don’t match our interests at all are quite…
Facebook ramped up its run at Snapchat this week. The company even raced ahead of its rival by opening up its new Camera Effects Platform so that outside developers and designers can create their own Snapchat Lens-like camera effects for the increasingly Snapchat-like social network. To produce these Camera Effects, Facebook has built a Mac…
Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasting code, and it simplifies development and refactoring. We use preprocessors to store colors, font preferences, layout details — mostly everything we use in…
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: The LAD Bible takes No. 1 spot from UNILAD as March’s most popular video creatorApr 19, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues After more than eight months leading the pack, UNILAD was knocked…
No matter whether you are designing a whole design system or just a couple of screens, symbols in Sketch will help you keep your file organized and will save you a lot of time in the long run. In this article, I’ll share with you a few best practices and tricks to help you unleash…
During this morning’s Facebook developer conference keynote — which was mostly about augmented and virtual reality and Messenger — the Places Graph was mentioned only in passing. It’s part of the Graph API, and the company has been using its location and places data internally and on Instagram and Messenger for some time. This is…
With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to location, the competition for visibility at the local level has heated up. Once a brand has submitted its data to data aggregators, then what? How can brands leverage performance metrics and data to measure their local search performance and take action on it? Join…
To say that responsive web design has changed our industry would be an understatement at best. We used to ask our clients which resolutions and devices they wanted us to support, but we now know the answer is “as many as possible.” To answer a challenge like this and to handle our increasingly complex world,…
Boring story made interesting: If you contact a brand though Facebook Messenger and also log in to the brand’s mobile app using your Facebook account, the brand has no idea that you’re the same person. Or it had no idea — until now. On Tuesday, Facebook made it possible for businesses to match the ID…
