Looking for a way to work on your mobile phone while scrolling Instagram? Well, why don't you try to become an Instagram freelance marketer? All you need is a mobile phone, the Instagram app, and some skills which I'll explore in the following article. Having more than 500 million active users per day, Instagram has...

Other than content, the link structure of a website is one of the most important ranking factors for Google. For the search engine’s crawlers, all links to a domain are of interest, but also the internal page navigation as well as the choice of links to foreign domains (outbound links). A frequent link audit should be on your to-do list. However, the Google algorithm pays particular attention to what sources the backlinks are from (inbound links). The explanation for that is very simple: the more high-grade the referring page is to Google, the more reliable is the quality of its recommendations. The same applies vice versa: the lower the quality of the link structure’s sources, the more the linked website’s reputation and ranking in the search engine decreases. Link Audit – The Optimization of the Link Structure Those that put a lot of effort into optimizing the internal link structure, and consequently equipped promotional outbounds links with appropriate tags, maybe because of a punishment from Google, should also take a look at the inbound links afterwards: For a general “house cleaning”, it makes sense to reduce poor links in regular time periods, to become more attractive for Google due to […]

Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: May 30, 2022 - June 5, 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Email marketing is one of the most important disciplines in e-commerce. Online shops, that don’t use the email medium outside of order and shipping confirmation throw away a huge potential to gain new customers, bind [...]

One of the lasting messages we see across the world of web design is the idea of inspiring creativity. Designers everywhere are encouraging us to find our inner artist by... The post Why Designers Need Creativity and Practicality to Succeed appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of Amplify Studio at its re:Invent conference. AWS Amplify Studio is a new visual development environment that enables developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with minimal coding, while also allowing them to customize their applications' design and behavior. Amplify Studio builds on AWS Amplify to … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: AWS announces Amplify Studio; Microsoft unveils Teams ToolKit 3.0; Mirantis launches DevOpsCare appeared first on SD Times.

AstroPay, an online payments service, has announced a new withdrawals API that is intended to simplify the process of offering withdrawal options to customers for its merchant partners. The API is designed to provide flexibility around different workflows and security parameters. Mikael Lijtenstein, CEO of AstroPay, outlined the value of this new API:

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Pinnery is the name of a rather new web app that deals with project and task management based on kanban boards. The most popular one of this kind is Trello. Pinnery is an alternative from Germany. Kanban Boards: Skeuomorphism of Task Management You know kanban boards, don’t you? Yes, you do. That’s what these boards, on which tasks or just about any cardable items are sorted, are called. The progress on a task (card, sticker, you name it) is documented as it travels from list to list until it’s completed. The principle is very simple, and thus, very successful. Let’s say you’re planning an editorial team;) Set up a kanban board for each author. On this board, there are lists titled “suggestions,” “ordered,” “in progress,” “ready for review by the editor,” and “scheduled.” Additionally, there are lists “declined,” and “published.” Now, the author will make suggestions for articles he’d like to write. These are placed in the suggestion list as single cards. In the easiest case, you like the suggestion, and you immediately drag it (or its card representative) into the list “ordered.” Now, the author knows that he can start working on it. Once he starts, he’ll drag the […]

This is going to seem like an odd thing to suggest, considering how much work is required to build a progressive web app instead of a responsive website. But, for many of you, your portfolio site should be built as a PWA. There are a number of benefits to doing this, which I'll outline below, but the bottom line is this: If you want to spend less time looking for clients, applying to design gigs and convincing prospects to hire you, a PWA would be a wise investment for your business.