Coaches are not the experts. Coaches are the guides. Coaches listen to you. Coaches give you perspective. Coaches transform you. Coaches help you create more impact. This is why Bill Gates presented a TED talk on this very topic, stating that "Everyone needs a coach." Coaches create EXPONENTIAL growth. See graph below. Coaches shift your thinking. And these mindshifts create the biggest impact. "The very mindsets that have made you successful in life and business can be precisely what's holding you back from the next level of success." – Rich Litvin Have you got a coach? If you want fuel your growth, you should know that I am currently taking 1:1 coaching clients and have two masterminds running for creative professionals.

Content delivery networks – CDN for short – are on everyone’s lips, and are often on the wishlist of bloggers. You’ll often read that a CDN will make your website insanely fast and that you just have to get one. The only question is: do you really need it or are there other, possibly better, ways? What is a CDN? A CDN is a distributed compound of servers that are located all over the world. Their only task is to cache a website’s static data, meaning images, CSS, and JavaScript files. The providers copy your static data onto their servers. Then, these files are always delivered from the server that’s the closest to your visitor. A CDN also works as a load balancer; most CDN providers have server networks per location, which means that they can easily handle a larger amount of requests than your server, which your website is on. That’s the theory. From that, one can conclude that a CDN should always deliver files faster than your own server. This doesn’t always have to be true, however, as the deciding factor is the response time of the server in question. In certain scenarios, this can actually be better […]

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A placeholder image service is a quick and easy way to find images to insert into web projects so that a wireframe or prototype looks more real. It can help other people envision the project and help keep it moving forward. Most designers try to do everything they can to help a client or non-visual […]

These days, a lot of people prefer to work from home. Working from home has become the new norm as a lot of changes have... The post Clear Online Meetings With The Razer Kiyo Webcam appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.

What's the difference between a software developer and a software engineer? We'll aim to answer that question by discussing their salaries, responsibilities, and more. What is a Software Developer? A software developer is a professional who writes code from scratch to build software. The software that a developer creates can range from a web app […] The post Software Developer vs. Software Engineer appeared first on Developer.com.

Jony Ive, the chief design officer of Apple, once said: "A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end." The same can be said about finding the best font for your graphic designs. If you're able to find the perfect font at the beginning of your […]

There are many reasons why one may want to embed JavaScript capabilities into an app. One example may be to take a dependency on a JavaScript library that has not yet been ported to the language you're developing in. Another may be that you want to allow users to "eval" small routines or functions in JavaScript, e.g., in data processing applications. The key reason for our investigation of ChakraCore was to support the React Native framework on the Universal Windows Platform, which is a framework for declaring applications using JavaScript and the React programming model.The post Building Hybrid Apps With ChakraCore appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Although we have already said goodbye to 2015, we still have some left over 'freshly-baked' presents for our readers. There is another dose of brand-new freebies, free instruments, and plugins. Dive into our collection and find solutions for quickly improving images regarding responsiveness, generating safe yet flexible foundations, adding fun with the help of animations...

Over the last two weeks, I had the chance to review about eighty job applications for a front-end position. The position requires strong JavaScript knowledge, but it also requires HTML and CSS. And here's a thing: nearly no one could show off substantial markup skills, not to talk about accessibility. Although I only had the chance to review their personal websites or GitHub profiles and this might of course not be a full show-off of their knowledge, it assured my lately developed opinion on web developers. Many are not able to choose the right HTML elements, to explain why and how a clearfix works, or what ARIA roles are for, but they can use React and Angular. If you got some spare time over the next weeks, learn semantics and re-read the basics (or specs if you like the challenge) of HTML and CSS from time to time.The post Web Development Reading List #121: The Illusion Of Completeness, Client Hints, CSS Subgrids appeared first on Smashing Magazine.