August 14, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about the user experience of video streaming websites and apps, find out what’s new in WordPress 5.5, discover how to structure your CSS, and more. Continue reading August 14, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

Person using a pen to handwrite a checklist in a paper journal.

You know that awful thing you hope never happens when you’re making changes on your website?

It happened to me this morning.

I was working on my site, updating plugins, making changes in multiple places, checking the configuration for some obscure setting that took me down a rabbit hole.

When suddenly, when I review my site, it’s not displaying the way it should.

Some update I made caused a problem with search disappearing.

The blog page was empty, there were no posts.

Uh oh. Continue reading Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

3 Secrets of Resilient People: TED Talk

Dr. Lucy Hone on stage at TEDx Christchurch 2019

Adversity doesn’t discriminate, says resilience researcher Dr. Lucy Hone.

Whether you’ve struggled with death of a loved family member or friend, lived through a natural disaster, been bullied, coped with mental illness or been fired from a job, you’ve had to deal with tough times.

And when those times come, you’re often made to feel the victim.

Why did this happen to you?

It can become easy to fall into the habit of focusing on negative things in your life.

To feel powerless in the midst of your anguish. Continue reading 3 Secrets of Resilient People: TED Talk