The latest update to WordPress, 4.6 otherwise known as Pepper has just been launched! It is the second major update for this year packed with more exciting features, enhancements and easy fixes for bugs. When you try these new features, you’ll surely love wordpress even more! Here’s a fun fact, the name Pepper was coined in honor of jazz baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III. If...
WordPress 4.4 “Clifford,” was released last month and here’s our take on this version. Named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, this version boasts of several new features that will make websites much more responsive than before. Responsive Images Have you ever visited an image-heavy WordPress site on a mobile device, only to be waiting a long time for the page to load, particularly on a slow internet...
The Project Manager When it comes to creating a website, there are usually two kinds of people who would pop into our minds, these are the web designers and the web developers. Of course, this only makes sense since these two group of professionals are pivotal to the creation of a website, but we are missing someone else who is equally important. While the designers are busy...
When Websites and Mobile Apps Meet In this digital age, you have probably heard over and over again about how businesses should get their own websites for marketing on the internet, establishing an online presence, etc. There seems to be no end as to the reasons why websites are important. While these reasons are indeed true, the digital world does not totally revolve around websites. It is...
The Notification Have you checked your website’s Google Webmaster Tools recently? If you have not, it is high time that you do! Google has been sending out mass notifications concerning non-mobile friendly issues it finds on your website. According to Barry Schwartz’ article on Search Engine Land, the notification should look something like this: If you see this email, it is obviously a red flag that there...
The Inseparable Two: UX and UI There are several elements that go into building a website, some of them can be quite technical, and there are others that are somewhat easier to understand. Out of all these elements though, there are two basic but very important ones that really stick out. These two focal elements building a website are UX and UI or User Experience and User...
November 19, 2014 – Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines – Syntactics, Inc. organized a seminar & workshop training day for the Web & Apps Team and selected members from the Online Marketing Team on User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX). This training was held in the Syntactics, Inc. office on Nov. 15, with a web designer and startup founder Marvin Consuegra as the resource speaker. Marvin Consuegra,...
Web designers and web developers play an important role in different outsourcing companies in the Philippines. This is mostly because as technology continues to grow and develop, businesses lean more towards having their own website as a way of “keeping up with the times”. You might think getting a web designing/developing job in the IT industry is as easy as pie because websites have become so in...
