About The Author Suzanne Scacca is a former WordPress implementer, trainer and agency manager who now works as a freelance copywriter. She specializes in crafting marketing, web … More about Suzanne Scacca …[1] Want to build a website or PWA that attracts a large audience and then converts as much of that audience into paying customers as possible? If that’s the case, what you need to do is use storytelling in your design — and there are a...
About The Author Dave Cunningham is a veteran designer, turned DesignOps Manager for Co-op Digital. Currenly on a mission to support designers to do their best work. Dave loves … More about Dave …[1][2] How do we know if we are truly impactful as a design team? Are we seen as a vehicle to deliver a solution that moves a needle? It’s time to empower our design teams and give them one voice to show how and when...
WordPress Multisite allows you to run multiple websites on your server using the same WordPress installation. From setting up Wordpress Multisite to optimizing its various features, this article will help you understand every facet of this unique WordPress tool. Read on to find out more. WordPress Multisite is a popular feature of WordPress, which enables you to create and run multiple websites using the same WordPress installation on your server. In other words, you can manage several...
About The Author Matt Maribojoc runs LearnVue.co, studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and shares his programming thoughts online. More about Matt …[1] With so many different ways to share data across components, you should know which technique is best for your situation. Let’s analyze three of the most common ways to pass data in VueJS. Sharing data across components is one of the core functionalities of VueJS. It allows you to design a more modular project, control data...
About The Author Rachel Andrew is not only Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including … More about Rachel Andrew …[1] SmashingConf is coming to Austin! In this post, Rachel Andrew gives you a rundown of what you can expect and shares a video interview with Miriam Suzanne who will be sharing the stage with the rest of the brilliant SmashingConf...
About The Author Uri Shaked is the co-founder of Wokwi, a platform for teaching Arduino, IoT and Electronics. He co-organizes the IoT Makers and JavaScript Israel meetup groups, … More about Uri …[1] HTML comes with a bunch of input controls, and there are tons of component libraries that include many standard controls such as checkboxes, and radio buttons. But what happens when you need something unusual?In this article, you’ll learn how to build custom HTML components that...
About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris …[1] With so much going on, we’ve made it our mission to help you stay on top of things. Of course, you can follow us on Twitter[2], Facebook[3], LinkedIn[4] and subscribe to our RSS feed[5], but it’s nice to have an overview of the...
About The Author As Mailchimp’s Chief Product Officer, John Foreman owns Mailchimp’s product strategy and oversees the execution of the product roadmap. Before coming to … More about John Foreman …[1] How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up. As a product leader at a tech company, I am a bottomless pit of need. My job as the...
About The Author Drew is a director at edgeofmyseat.com, co-founder of Notist and lead developer for small content management system Perch. Prior to this, he was a Web Developer … More about Drew McLellan …[1][2][3] In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re taking a look at the UK Government’s design system. How are design systems used within government? Is it any different to how we might work in the commercial sector? Drew McLellan talks to design systems...
In this article, you will learn how to use React’s Context API which allows you to manage global application states in your React apps without resorting to props drilling. For this tutorial, you should have a fair understanding of hooks. Still, before we begin, I’ll briefly discuss what they are and the hooks we’ll be using in this article. According to the React Docs[1]: “Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other...