Author: jlau
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Don’t Overlook the Small Legal Details for Your Business Website
Suppose you’re a business owner with a website that has a chart listing your services versus competitors, perhaps purchasable items are available, written health advice from a blog post, or a fundraising form for money donations.
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Why Nonprofits Should Blog Often to Advocate for Change
When most people think of nonprofits, they think it’s an organization that generates money through donations. In reality, a nonprofit is another form of a small business. However, a nonprofit organization is usually mission-driven paired with a future outlook and vision for a community or society.
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Non-profit MVP Website Phase One Business Model
In the past, I’ve worked with multiple startups mainly as their production designer and web developer. I’ve seen the speed of marketing expediting the process of various methods for landing page designs. Utilizing different CTA colors, images, and message elements to invoke machine learning suggestions and decision-making. What may seem to be a good option…
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Discovering other WordPress Meetups in Massachusetts
This past Monday I attended the Boston WordPress Meetup and got to listen to Rob Petrin talk about Gutenberg’s development roadmap within WordPress. So far, we’re on a very good path. A lot of new features have been indoctrinated into the system and are providing more options for users to build unique-looking sites.
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Becoming a Boston WordPress Meetup Organizer
Last year I wrote about my experience attending my first Boston WordPress Meetup in a while and how I asked the organizers if I could help out. Sure enough, I am now an official organizer managing some of the basic tasks!
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Proprietary Rights to Your Digital Content
The social web of today is highly integral to our daily lives. How we share these secondary extensions of ourselves is through digital social platforms. The vast majority of these proprietary platforms harness our activities through threads, forums, and instantaneous feeds. Utilizing our data, to make business and marketing decisions and suggestive social connections. It’s…
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Reflecting on 2023, Achieving in 2024
It was an interesting ride for the year 2023. There were a lot of lows initially, but as the year progressed, around the beginning of spring, things turned to mostly highs. Overall, the takeaways were mostly positive.
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Don’t Track Node Modules Folder In Your Project
During the early days of my web development career, I had difficulty figuring out why my project folder was so bloated regarding file size. Passing the files to a thumb drive or delivering it through a file uploader, took forever. I later realized the unnecessary need to include the node_modules folder. This is especially apparent…
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Boston WordPress Meetup Experience
So I don’t remember when the last time I attended a Boston WordPress Meetup was, but it was definitely a time before COVID hit and when Microsoft kept their large amphitheater seating open. We all sat in bleacher-style wood seats while watching the presenters give their talks.
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Notes to Myself
Ever find yourself confused in the middle of a project and having to Google things all the time? Yes, we all have been there. This is not new. Well, this advice may sound obvious, but a developer should write notes, or blog about it for their own sake.