Category: Web Development

February 28, 2022

Craft CMS vs. WordPress: Why Choose Craft?

[Originally published on November 8th, 2019] Did you know that WordPress powers nearly 43% of the entire internet? That's right, 43 out of every 100 websites on the internet today utilizes WordPress …

September 4, 2018

Why We Use Cross Browser Testing in Our Quality Assurance Process

In the early 2000s, in order to test their work on different browser versions, developers would have to use different computers. With the rise in popularity of mobile smart phones and tablets came the need for websites to be adaptable…

September 29, 2017

Laracon 2017: the Year of Advanced Web Interfaces

The NerdyMind Development Team went to Laracon 2017 in New York City this summer to learn more about Laravel (a free, open-source PHP web framework) and building awesome, advanced web interfaces. Ther…

August 31, 2017

Five Reasons to Fire Your Developer Friend

How much money are you ACTUALLY saving by hiring your “developer friend?” Some of you might think the title of this blog post is really harsh. But hey, there’s a lot of noise out there – we have to g…

December 13, 2016

Mobile First or User First: An Experience Design Philosophy

Nobody can deny the fact that mobile users are growing in numbers. Smartphones are becoming more and more affordable by the day, opening up a larger pool of potential users who will be looking at your…

December 13, 2016

Tony Gets Technical: Retina Displays

Supporting and Optimizing Website Images for High Pixel Density Screens We've recently started supporting "Retina®", or high-DPI, screens with websites that we develop. For those not familiar wi…

December 13, 2016

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Today, most websites use a combination of a programming language and an SQL database to store and retrieve their content, and the biggest risk with this type of setup is called an "SQL injection attac…

December 13, 2016

Cart66 and ShareASale Integration

Recently, we set out to integrate a WordPress eCommerce site running Cart66 with the ShareASale affiliate program and found the process to be less than sufficiently documented. After mulling over seve…

December 13, 2016

Pre-Built WordPress Themes vs. Custom WordPress Development

First off, NerdyMind loves WordPress. It's such a great website platform – especially when your marketing people are managing the site content (and content strategy). It's also surprisingly scalable; …

December 13, 2016

Emergenetics: Truth or Trend?

With so many personality tests out there from Emergenetics to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the DISC assessment, it's hard to tell which one is most beneficial and accurate. Although you might f…