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What’s What: Custom Web Application, Plugin, & Website

By Bree Weber / November 11, 2019

What’s the difference between website, plugin, and custom web application? Hands up if the words website, plugin, and web application all sound like synonyms! To…

What makes a great web developer?

By Danielle Iera / September 6, 2019

[and] What does a great web developer do? An SHD full-stack developer spotlight story and Q&A. Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough…

5 Ways to Communicate to Your Web Designer

By Nicole Hanusek / June 19, 2019

Communicate Your Vision to Your Design Team How do web designers transform client feedback into design? Even with an expert design team, communicating what you…

What is Git, & Why is it Important [for Website Version Control]?

By Nicole / May 22, 2019

Git is a tool that’s there to make lives easier. Smack Happy uses this device for version control of our project code. It’s a code…

Why a Poorly Designed Website is Hurting Your Business

By Danielle Iera / May 15, 2019

Updating a Poorly Designed Website Updating a bad web design doesn’t have to be overwhelming and doesn’t need to be done all at once.  …

Developer Tools for Your Creative Genius in 2019

By Nicole Hanusek / December 19, 2018

It is almost 2019, and we know that your new year’s resolutions list is growing, right? Whether you have one, zero, or 125 resolutions in…

4 Insights from WordCamp Boston 2018

By Nicole Hanusek / October 1, 2018

WordCamp conferences are always wonderful learning hubs for all types of WordPress users. These conferences are held worldwide and are purely community-organized. Anyone from new…

Skip the GoDaddy Website Builder and Use WordPress

By Nicole Hanusek / June 1, 2018

So, GoDaddy is a very popular web hosting option. The GoDaddy website builder, especially their latest option, the GoCentral Website Builder, looks like a lucrative…

Things To Think About Before Hiring A Web Development & Design Firm

By Danielle Iera / April 3, 2017

So, you’ve decided you need to hire a firm for some web development and design, but where do you start? In an effort to make…

Smack Happy’s Top 7 Web Development Tools for 2017

By Danielle Iera / February 12, 2017

How many different development *tools have you used or tried for your web development project? How many of those tools lightened your workload, or helped things…