It’s weird to think that I’ve been interacting with a computer in some fashion since 1996. If you do the math, that’s 24 years of computer usage. The first 16 years were relatively painless, aside from the occasional term paper in college. Suddenly after college, computers went from a source…

We’re always looking for new ways to enable our clients at Storyware to share their content with users. Sometimes that means a new CMS, and sometimes that means an entirely new piece of technology. Today, we’re diving into Alexa Development and the voice design space. What is Alexa? Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice…

A career in web development is pretty great for a lot of reasons, and I’d be lying if I didn’t list the ability to work remotely towards the top of that list. I remember when I first started getting paid to build websites from my couch in college and how…

Occasionally I feel nostalgic about some of the “old” things from my early days in Web Development — like building websites on Yahoo! Geocities or customizing MySpace profiles via HTML and CSS. One thing that I’ll never feel nostalgic about is deploying website changes via FTP or SFTP. No way…

A couple of years ago we decided to try a different approach to applying heading styles in our projects at Storyware. We stopped styling heading elements directly and started defining CSS utility classes for each stylistic need; much like you would see in an Atomic CSS workflow. Many novice developers…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time at this year’s Smashing Conference (presented by Smashing Magazine) it’s that the end of the web as we know it is quite near. Is the whole web going to disappear? Obviously not. But part of the web is dying, and for…

Media queries are pretty great, enabling a single website to put its best foot forward no matter what size device the content is viewed on. Without media queries, Front End developers would likely still be relegated to serving up two separate websites for one entity: one for small, mobile devices…

Note: This article was written before Hubspot released HubDb, a solution for creating database-driven features for Hubspot blogs and websites. If your project has access to HubDb, then we would recommend using that solution. …

1. You can learn a lot about Mobile UX from 4 year olds and My Little Pony No, really. On two recent mobile-based re-designs, educator and UX designer Andrew Smyk chose to swap out a client’s content for ponies (of the My Little Pony variety) and then presented the pony-based…