Target Practice Trading

Target Practice Trading

Tech Stack: Javascript, React, MongoDB, Express, JSX/HTML and CSS In this group project, we had five days to build a stock tracking application. Three friends and I opted to modify the brief by building a cryptocurrency trading application instead. The application allows anyone to register themselves as a player and …

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Elementor

Three Reasons to Use Elementor (And Three Reasons Not To)

For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the …

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Offermative Review

Offermative Review – A Powerful Sales Funnel for WooCommerce Shops

Offermative is a feature-rich WooCommerce plugin that was designed to help online shops increase conversions. It simplifies and automates an advanced sales funnel, offering customers discounts, special offers, upsells, cross-sells, product recommendations and more. The plugin is highly customisable, allowing you to create offers for customers based on many unique …

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Dropbox

Why I’m Cancelling My Premium Dropbox Plan

I have been a happy Dropbox user since the service launched in the late 2000s. The company was a pioneer in the world of cloud storage hosting and it continues to be one of the best cloud storage solutions available online. Although I was an early adopter of Dropbox, for …

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How to Manage Internal & External Links Effectively in WordPress

How to Manage Internal & External Links Effectively in WordPress

A big part of search engine optimisation involves managing internal and external hyperlinks on your website. Nine attributes are available for the HTML anchor element (<A>). The most important attribute is href as it defines the URL a user should go to, but you will also see the target attribute …

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How to Organise, Manage & Schedule Content Effectively in WordPress

How to Organise, Manage & Schedule Content Effectively in WordPress

WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with …

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Restarting the Blogging Engine

Restarting the Blogging Engine

Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …

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Elementor

Elementor WordPress Themes

Page builders have become an integral component of the WordPress platform. The early versions of page builders were focused solely on helping WordPress users create beautiful content, however, modern page builders have taken responsibility of essential functionality once found in WordPress themes. The WordPress block editor is technically the most …

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