5 Ways Website Design Can Affect SEO

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Search Engine Optimization campaigns are essential to make a business more successful. Even though you may have a great idea to attract more people through different marketing strategies, your website’s design might be standing in the way. Having a great design might look attractive, but you need to rank higher to leave a long-lasting impression. […]

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Facebook Messenger Adds One-Time Notification API

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Facebook has announced the release of a new beta API that will provide businesses with a method for offering its customers simple follow-up information. The new Messenger One-Time Notification API is designed for situations where customers may want to be notified about simple updates like price drops of merchandise or changes in the availability of products.

CSS4 is a Bad Idea

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Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:

The reason “CSS3” worked is because it was real. It was the successor to “CSS2.1”. Everything after CSS2.1 was considered to be under the umbrella of “CSS3”.

The gist is that CSS4 isn't real, so won't work, and we don't need it anyway. Perhaps I overestimate the power of marketing, but I'd wager Louis underestimates it a bit. When an idea takes hold, basis in truth or not, it has tremendous power and money follows. See: politics and pet rocks.

Amelia Bellamy-Royds pointed out that there is a real thing we could point to, and those are "CSS Snapshots" that the working group produces that could be marketed as yearly versions. Like we have ES2019, we could have CSS2020.

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Freshly Designed Assets Modal

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When you're working in the Pen Editor, you have complete access to both all the files you've uploaded (Asset Hosting is a PRO feature) as well as a slew of free design resources we make available to you.

Click that Assets button in the footer, and the Assets modal will pop up. We've just redesigned this area to be more useful and more in-line with other areas of the site, like our recently redesigned Pen Settings.

The biggest bit of feedback we were working from is that, for PRO members, it was too hard to access your own files. In fact, in some screen sizes and configurations, the Your Files section could have been totally off-screen and it wasn't obvious you could scroll to it. In this new design, Your Files is front-and-center when you open the modal, and all the other free resources are still there and easy to click over to.

Let us know if you have any feedback!

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Jaxsta Announced Music Credentials API

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Jaxta is an online music credentials resource that was founded in 2015 with the aim of ensuring that music creators get the credit that they are due. The company now operates a massive database of music credits and has announced an API to expose this data for third-party use.

Endless loop in mysql function

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Hello all.
I have a funtion in MYSQL to substruct days from a date.
This function seamsto work but some dates it times out.
This is my function

CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` FUNCTION `Calculater`(intrval int, req date) RETURNS date
    DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
declare calculated date;
declare added int default  0;

Lbl_Loop: Loop
IF added=intrval then
leave lbl_loop;
End IF;
set calculated = DATE_SUB(req,interval 1 day);
IF weekday(calculated)<5  then
set added= added+1;
End If;
end loop;
RETURN calculated;
END

If I do select Calculater(1,"2020-02-04"); it works, but select Calculater(1,"2020-02-02"); it runs for a few seconds and My SQL times out.

Thanks in advance.

Introduction to positionstack's Forward and Reverse Batch Geocoding REST API

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Welcome to today's tutorial on apilayer's positionstack, a forward and reverse batch geocoding REST API. For those that don't know, forward geocoding translates a street address to GPS coordinates and reverse geocoding converts GPS coordinates to a street address. Batch geocoding allows you to convert a large volume of street addresses to GPS coordinates and vice versa.

The Eclipse Foundation Announces the Sparkplug Working Group

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Today at the ARC Advisory Group’s 24th Annual Industry Forum, the Eclipse Foundation announced the launch of the Sparkplug Working Group, which is driving the evolution and broad adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug Specification that enables the creation of open, interoperable, Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions utilizing MQTT.

Convert Blog Posts to Social Media Campaigns with Missinglettr

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missinglettr reviewIn this article we will review Missinglettr – an easy-to-use, fully automated, content repurposing tool for social media. Given that reach of organic social media posts are just around 1-2%, it only makes sense to periodically share your existing content on these platforms. However, re-creating social media posts from the same old content is a […]

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HTMLHint

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Along with our recent release of using Prettier for code formatting, we've also now upgraded our HTML linter to use HTMLHint instead of html-inspector. Interestingly, they have about the same number of stars on GitHub, but html-inspector is archived and no longer maintained while HTMLHint is actively maintained.

You use it by selecting Analyze HTML from the editors actions menu.

For us, it also meant being able to send off your HTML to our own service, just like we do with all our preprocessors. We weren't doing that with html-inspector as it was meant to be injected into the DOM to run and we had a fancy little process for doing that. It's much better this way for security and consistent handling of code services on our end.

Config

This is for all Pens on the entirely of CodePen, it can't be customized on a per-Pen or per-Account basis. Here's how we have it set up:

{
  'alt-require': true,
  'attr-lowercase': true,
  'attr-no-duplication': true,
  'attr-unsafe-chars': true,
  'attr-value-double-quotes': true,
  'attr-value-not-empty': false,
  'doctype-first': false,
  'doctype-html5': false,
  'empty-tag-not-self-closed': false,
  'head-script-disabled': false,
  'href-abs-or-rel': true,
  'id-class-ad-disabled': false,
  'id-class-value': false,
  'id-unique': true,
  'inline-script-disabled': false,
  'inline-style-disabled': false,
  'space-tab-mixed-disabled': 'space',
  'spec-char-escape': true,
  'src-not-empty': true,
  'style-disabled': false,
  'tag-pair': true,
  'tagname-lowercase': true,
  'title-require': false
}

I post this mostly because we've already had to make some small changes to it after release. For example, we had a value set for id-class-value that is meant to be an opinionated way you should name your ids and classes. That doesn't make sense on CodePen. Y'all can do whatever you like with naming. This is more about finding things in your HTML that are almost certainly a mistake or would cause a problem.

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An Interview With Zach Leatherman: A SmashingConf Austin Speaker

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An Interview With Zach Leatherman: A SmashingConf Austin Speaker

An Interview With Zach Leatherman: A SmashingConf Austin Speaker

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We are so excited to be bringing SmashingConf to a new city this year. We’re bringing you SmashingConf Austin and we have a fantastic line-up of speakers.

Check out this post, where we introduce our new venue of Austin and share an interview with Miriam Suzanne. This time we have an interview with Zach Leatherman.

Zach will be talking about type and font performance at SmashingConf Austin. See you there?

Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018, paired with a talk by Monica Dinculescu from SmashingConf Barcelona, “Web Fonts And Performance: SmashingConf Videos".

Also, take a look at some of the resources that Zach has made available on the subject in his archive of posts about web fonts. There is plenty to get you started, and I think you can agree that there is no-one better to help us understand the current state of font loading while we are in Austin!

Tickets Are On Sale Now!

If you want to join in the fun, tickets are on sale. Last year, we sold out three of our conferences well before the conference date, and popular workshops also fill up fast. Just saying!

Smashing Editorial (il)

Full Stack Panic

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A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".

... the little voice in your head says ... “I should know all of this. Do I even know what I'm doing?” Why do web developers the world over feel like this?

There is an episode with Joel talking about it as well as other interesting angles like an episode with psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling.

The overall vibe is that of catharsis in that, hopefully, none of this matters as much as it seems like it might. I'd like to think we try to deliver that, through a bit of levity, on ShopTalk Show as well.

Oh hey and Panic started a podcast too, a must-subscribe from me as a long-time fan of all their interesting work.

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