Articles Tagged advice

Someone emailed me:

What approach to building a site should I take?

1. Build a single responsive website
2. Build a site on a single domain, but detect mobile, and render a separate mobile site
3. Build a separate mobile site on a subdomain

It’s funny how quickly huge industry-defining conversations fade from view. This was probably the biggest question in web design and development this past decade, and we came up with an answer: It’s #1, you should build a responsive website. … Read article “How Many Websites Should We Build?”

I recently did an AMA over on DEV. Just taking the opportunity to port over some answers here like a good indiewebber.… Read article “Clips from my DEV AMA”

My partner and I ran a design and development conference company for eight years. During that time, we produced hundreds of hours of conferences, both on-site and online. Diversity scholarships were only becoming a typical conference offering around the time we decided to sunset our business. So, when we committed to collaborate on an updated ARTIFACT conference, I knew right away I wanted to make Diversity Scholarships available.… Read article “Creating a Diversity Scholarship Program for Your Conference”

Jacob Schatz (@jakecodes) is a staff engineer over at GitLab and was kind enough to share how he conducts job interviews for technical positions and his thinking process for them. Technical interviews are talked about often and can be a touchy subject for some, so it’s worth noting that this article expresses Jacob’s own opinions and are not necessarily shared by his employer.

Are you an interviewee who is terrified, exhausted, sad, or disappointed? I’d love to change … Read article “Interviewing for a Technical Position Doesn’t Have to Be Scary”

In the summer of 1998, when President Clinton fended off allegations of sexual impropriety and Donald Trump filmed a cameo in a Woody Allen movie, I embarked on my career as a freelance web developer. Twenty years and more than 300 websites later, I’m still at it—always working on my own and always from home. Over that time, I’ve had the pleasure of partnering with many prominent advertising agencies and boutique design firms as well as scores of local businesses … Read article “Twenty Years as a Freelance Web Developer: Wisdom Gained and Lessons Learned”

Steven Trwoga wrote to me with a perfectly reasonable question:

I have an idea for a website I would like to have built. I believe it would fall into the category of “large project”.

I have spoken with, and been quoted by some web design agencies in the UK. However I am not convinced by what I am being told in terms of what can be built and cost.

I have no experience in web design, but I have spent