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Do Web Designers Need to Know How to Code?

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January 18, 2013

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Is it true that web designers must know how to code in order to be taken seriously as a professional services provider? Over the past year or so, I have seen articles and blog posts written that exhort web designers to learn HTML, CSS, and PHP. Some of these articles have even gone as far to say that if you don’t know how to code, you aren’t a true web designer. These opinions do have merit. It would be valuable and beneficial for a designer to have an understanding of the code work necessary to build a website, but in […]

WordPress.com Home Now Sporting Responsive Design

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January 18, 2013

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WordPress.com is now sporting a svelte responsive layout as well as the WordPress.com Reader. This isn’t a comprehensive roll-out .com-wide as many of the pages are still not responsive – not a criticism as I know that would be a very large job but I hope it’s coming soon! For example, even the WordPress.com blog doesn’t have it (yet):

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 1.17.2013

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January 17, 2013

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Thursday is my favorite day of the week. It means only one more work day and the weekend is just around the corner. It’s also the night of comedy on NBC and I get reminiscent about when The Office was in its prime. It’s also another day of more plugins! New ones at that! Just a quick house cleaning note before I share the list. If I stumble upon a description that is in gibberish or I can’t understand it, I may get rid of it. I am getting these lists from some RSS feeds that I have set up and if the […]

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