The Key to Digital Marketing Success: Infrastructure – Forward Fest 2020 Presentation
Everyone has a band, and everyone has a website. But as a business owner, you may be asking yourself questions like: “Why aren’t we on the first page of Google?” “Why isn’t anyone checking out of our store?” “How do I follow up with customers who have bought...
Why WordPress Works—A Forward Fest Presentation
I recently had the honor to speak at Foward Fest Madison this year, and it was a real treat! I was able to share my thoughts and knowledge with a captive audience, and almost everyone stayed for the entire event! I shared some reasons that WordPress has been...
Migrating from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7: Straight Truth and Helpful Tips
While we recommend that you upgrade to PHP 7 as soon as is practical, we also know that your timing needs to be based on your specific application and business needs. Here are some things to keep in mind if you find yourself needing to make the upgrade…
React Rally 2018 Impressions
React Rally is a two-day conference focused on React and JavaScript held in Salt Lake City, UT. In 2018, there were 20 talks covering the broad and ever-changing space that is the JavaScript world. Most of them are available to view on the React Rally Youtube channel....
Who Needs Copy When You Have Lorem Ipsum?
Clearly, we are joking. But it is actually a good question. Doesn’t Lorem Ipsum do all the heavy lifting when laying out web content? It can, but the results and impact on copy might not work out in the site owner’s favor. Here’s why.
Tiny Boxes In The Cloud: Earthling Containers
The promises of the cloud were difficult to realize at the beginning of the decade, but they have become more achievable over time as the ecosystem of technologies associated with the cloud have matured.
Highly Recommended Reading/Viewing/Listening
Earthlings were asked to name a resource that they wish all of their colleagues would read, watch or listen to. Another way to phrase the question might have been “what learning will help make us a stronger team?”
WP-CLI—A Panacea for WordPress Developers?
Bekee’s first reaction to hearing about WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress was: “So what? It’s not hard to update plugins as it is!” But after a brief tutorial, she realized that she may never have been happier to be so wrong.
Earthlings Predict Tech in 2018
Happy New Year from Earthling Interactive! We asked Earthlings to share their tech forecasts, speculations, and predictions for the coming year.