Blogging is one of the most popular sources of passive income among youngsters nowadays, and why not? It requires less investment and gains a high ROI. Now to start Blogging, you need a website to start with, and there are various free blogging websites available to make it easy for you. But do you really...

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This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by a massive outage that affected around 85% of the network. The near-total collapse -- which was quickly identified and remedied -- took out sites including GitHub, Stack Overflow, PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, Reddit, Amazon, and CNN. […] The post Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One... first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Today’s companies are drowning in bits and bytes. According to Hubspot, the average enterprise manages 347.56 TB of data, while Splunk claims 55% of business data is unused. It’s obvious that organizations need to utilize data more effectively. When they do, they’re in a better position to enable effective value stream management. Both data and … continue reading The post Data improves value stream management appeared first on SD Times.

On the TutsPlus.com site today there's a new tutorial where they spotlight one of the components in the Symfony framework: the routing component. The tutorial outlines some of the basics about the component, installing it and putting it to use. The Symfony Routing Component is a very popular routing component which is adapted by several frameworks and provides a lot of flexibility should you wish to set up routes in your PHP application. If you've built a custom PHP application and are looking for a feature-rich routing library, the Symfony Routing Component is more than a worth a look. It also allows you to define routes for your application in the YAML format. Starting with installation and configuration, we'll go through real-world examples to demonstrate a variety of options the component has for route configuration. The tutorial starts with the commands to get the component installed (via Composer) and other related components for YAML parsing, HTTP handling and configuration parsing. It then provides examples of: setting up the instance and defining some basic routes how route matching works loading routes from a YAML file The tutorial finishes with an example of an "all in one" router that pulls in the route configuration and creates a new Router instance with them ready and waiting to handle requests.

When assessing the effectiveness of a website’s design, we often look at numbers. After all, numbers don’t lie. We track bounce rates, engagement rates, or spikes or dips in organic... The post Improve UX by Understanding What Compels Human Behavior appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Marketing employs a wide range of design tactics to catch customer's eyes, resonate, and leave a lasting impression. A marketer's goal is conversion and they use every means possible to make that happen. Did you know that an incredibly powerful conversion design aspect lies in the art of typography? From serif to sans serif fonts,...

Snyk announced that it closed a $530 million Series F investment, which now totals the company’s funding to-date to $8.5 billion. "This new investment, together with the rapid adoption of our platform and growing customer base, validates our developer security vision," said Peter McKay, CEO of Snyk. "When security starts with the world's expanding pool … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Snyk Series F, Visual Studio extensibility updates, and Rust 1.55 appeared first on SD Times.

Hover effects have long been one of the easiest ways to add an element of interactivity to a website. Most commonly, we see them used to highlight text links or... The post 10 Advanced Image Hover Effects Snippets appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

That’s a heartwrenching title from Michael Williamson. I believe it though. It’s kinda like a maximized version of the blogging phenomenon where if you work on a post for weeks it’ll flop compared to a post that’s some dumb 20-minute … The post My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.