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I’ve been an official Nerd for a year now.
This past Tuesday marked my one year anniversary at The Nerdery. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year, and it’s also hard to believe how much I’ve learned.
When I started I was a little nervous. It was my first time starting a new job in 6 years. I was excited though as it brought me back to web development. Did I know SVN? Nope. jQuery? Nope. But I knew how to code HTML and CSS along with some PHP & JavaScript.
How does one see the internet when they can’t see it?
Have you ever wondered how blind people surf the web or have you ever stopped to take the visually impaired into consideration when designing or building a site? Probably not.
I believe that most web developers don’t think too much about the visually impaired. We focus more on the design and functionality and what we see.
There are things though that we can do to make our sites better for screen readers and those with disabilities, however I don’t know them all and can say that I’ve never surfed the web without my sight.
SEO vs Web Design
If you talk to someone who does SEO they often wonder why web developers create sites so un-search friendly. If you talk to web developers they wonder why SEO’s have to be so picky about everything.
Being in both industries I can tell you that web developers don’t think about SEO and SEO’s don’t understand why developers can’t be better SEOs. Truth is, they’re two different industries and two different ways of looking at the web.
How to add a mega menu to WordPress
Have you ever wanted to add a mega menu to WordPress? There are plugins that claim to do it, but why use a plugin when you can add just a bit of code. Here is one, pretty simple, solution that works for me.
This code was tested in the default WordPress theme. It can work in any theme, however the instructions may very based on how the theme creator coded the theme.
New Google Analytics goals appear to be delayed by more than a few hours.
I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, but there are just things that don’t work well.
I’ve recently been setting up goals for a client and one day they didn’t work and the next day they would.
It was frustrating but I eventually came to the conclusion that new Google Analytics goals must have some sort of big delay before they start collecting data. Something like they don’t kick in until tomorrow arrives.
This is increasingly frustrating when Google Analytics data comes in every 10 or 20 minutes. So I could see pages in the top content reports, and yet goals would stay at 0.
Google Wave logo recycled for Google Wallet
If at first you don’t succeed, recycle the logo and re-use it.
GA? and yExplore are now Firefox 5 ready.
I received emails from Mozilla yesterday that stated GA? – Is Google Analytics Installed and yExplore are compatible with Firefox 5. So I’ve updated the version numbers in the extensions and they are ready to go.
As a bonus, GA? also works in Firefox 4 now too. 
Enjoy!
Passwords and backups should be two of the most important features on your site.
Your website may be amazing, but if it doesn’t have secure passwords, and it’s not being backed-up regularly, it could all disappear tomorrow.
People never realize how important those things are until someone compromises their stuff. Then what are you going to do?
I’ve heard two stories this week about two different developers who got all pissed off and their clients site suffered. Unfortunately neither company had changed passwords when they ended their relationship with the developers and neither had backups. Now they are left in a panic, and what’s left of their site.
14 Strangely Creative Stock Photos
Creativity is one of those things that’s hard to define. For each of us it’s different, and for some it’s a bit strange.
Check out the interesting stock photos below and see if they fit into your next project. Not sure where I’d use any of them, yet I kinda want to find a use for all of them!
