As coders or programmers, we are subject to many hours of sitting at the desk, just like many office professionals. Luckily we can break up our day by visiting clients and running errands. This however also involves more sitting as we have to drive to the location and back. All this time in the office…
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, has become a very popular term amongst businesses throughout the world. Simply put, SEO is the process by which you make your website friendly to search engines like Google and Bing. Better SEO tactics will allow your site to appear on the first page of Google search results, which is…
Over the past few years, we have encountered a lot of confusion between some very common terms in the computer world, terms that are used interchangeably on a regular basis. Some people wonder what is the difference, if any, between the “Internet” and the “World Wide Web”. There is a difference between the two, as…
At CryoDragon, we are regularly asked what the difference is between “Domains” and “Web Hosting,” so we thought we would give some basic information on this subject. It comes up quite often in our line of work, so maybe this will help some others out as well. A domain is like a phone number, and…
Every WordPress website has a theme, whether it is a purchased template theme or a custom web design of your own. What most people don’t realize is that there are different types of themes in WordPress, each requiring a different level of skillset, and those are frameworks, parent themes and child themes. So, what exactly…
There are OVER ONE BILLION websites in the world! The one-billion mark was reached in 2014, and continues to grow as websites become more and more crucial to our daily lives. We use our phones on a regular basis (usually smartphones), and we have laptops and desktops. Whenever we use any of these devices, there’s…
Have you ever seen generic-looking photos on a website or promotional material? Maybe a scientist using a microscope for a research website, or your typical smiling businessman on the front of a corporate brochure? What you’re seeing is most likely a stock photo. According to Wikipedia, “stock photography is the supply of photographs, which are…
For those who aren’t in the web design field, the two terms “design” and “development” get mistaken for each other quite a bit. In fact, a lot of people use the terms interchangeably, thinking they mean the same thing: making a website. However, that’s not true! Website design and website development are two different entities,…
What is the Canada’s Anti Spam Legislation? Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect on July 1st, 2014. Long story short, it is a national effort to reduce the amount of spam and unwanted malware downloads in everyone’s email inbox and computer. However, in order to comply with this law, we’ve all had to read…
We’ve all encountered JPG (JPEG) and PNG images before, and most of you will have heard of or know a bit about TIFF, EPS, vector images and some others. But what properties separate these images from each other? They’re all digital images, right? To web designers and graphic artists, these terms are encountered on a…