The Sad State of Local News 2023 / / No Comments Northwestern University’s The State of Local News Outlook is an interactive map which visualizes the number of surviving local newspapers in every county in the United States. On this local news map individual counties are clored to show whether the county has 0, 1 or 2 or more news outlets. The data shown on the map can also be filtered to show the number of local number of newspapers, Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 2023, local, News, State
My 2023 / / No Comments Happy New Year (well almost) my fabulous readers. Typically at the end of the year, I like to take stock of what I accomplished through the year and share it in one last blog post. I honestly don’t expect anyone to actually read these summaries, but they help me determine what I did well and what I didn’t accomplish over the year while figuring out what I want to adjust for next year. So here’s how I did in 2023. Writing # My goal for the blog is consistent, useful, helpful, and fun posts. My publishing ‘plan’ is one post a week for 52 posts a year. Counting this post, I published 118 posts which I’ll take as a big ole win. My traffic, according to Netlify,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2023
The 2023 Polish Election / / No Comments Sunday’s Parliamentary Election in Poland saw the far-right PIS party win the most seats (194 seats) in the new parliament. However the opposition parties, consisting of the Civic Coalition (157 seats), Third Way (65 seats), and The Left (26 seats) achieved a combined share of 54% of the vote and are expected to now form a coalition government.Thanks to the growing trend among newspapers to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 2023, election, Polish
Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023 (Sponsored) / / No Comments You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of those you visited. Was it the front page, the layout in general, or the functionalities that either met with your satisfaction or turned you off? The helpful tools and resources for designers presented here should help you avoid what’s bad and capture what’s good in your own design creations. They will also save you the trouble of having to devote what could be many hours searching for tools and resources for designers you believe you should have and use. One or more of these should help you deliver work in a timely manner that engages... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2023, Agencies, Designers, essential, resources, Sponsored, tools, Unveiling
5 Web Design Trends for 2023 That You Should Pay Attention To (Sponsored) / / No Comments The start of a new year is usually a time when we start looking for ways to make something a little better. That something could be our life, work, or what we produce. Web designers, for example, might look for ways to make their designs more interesting or effective. In this post we will focus on 5 web design trends that are designed to help users get the most from the websites they visit and we will use 10 pre-built websites from BeTheme to demonstrate how best to implement those trends . BeTheme is one of the world’s most popular and highly-rated WordPress Themes with 268,000+ sales and a 4.83/5 star-rating. 5 new web design trends for 2023 To improve anything, you have to know what it does... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2023, Attention, design, should, Sponsored, Trends