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How we built our equal-pay system

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Earlier this year, I transitioned my company to an equal-pay policy. Among our seven software developers, everyone is compensated in an identical way, and those numbers and formulas are public to the whole team. It almost goes without saying that equal pay and financial transparency are good things—they’re critical to closing the wage gap as […]

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles

Optimizing WordPress for Core Web Vitals

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Learn how to get ahead of your competition by optimizing your WordPress site for Google’s Core Web Vitals, the latest update to their rankings — coming in 2021.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Building Long-Term Relationships as a Core Strategy

Gavin Graham, Account Director By Gavin Graham, Account Director

Rob was a recent guest on Susan Boles’ Break the Ceiling podcast to discuss long-term relationships and how he orients his business to build them.

By Gavin Graham, Account Director Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Retrofitting ExpressionEngine 1 and 2 for PHP 7

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Code-on-a-Screen Madness

ExpressionEngine 1.x and 2.x are really solid, but they definitely do not work on PHP 7. Because I went through this process a couple times, I’ve now documented it to help you solve the same problem on your legacy sites.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles

Why We Love Trello

Gavin Graham, Account Director By Gavin Graham, Account Director

Trello

Trello is a web-based Kanban-style list-making app that’s used by teams to organize their projects, especially when using Scrum (like we do).

By Gavin Graham, Account Director Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Top Three Ways to Retain a Great Web Developer

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Working from Home

It can cost your business up to four months of a new employee’s salary to recruit and train them. Instead, learn the three best ways to keep the great web development talent that you already have.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Scheduling, Communication and Deep Work

Gavin Graham, Account Director By Gavin Graham, Account Director

Learn how the principles of managing a team of remote web developers can help you as we all adjust to working from home because of COVID-19.

By Gavin Graham, Account Director Filed Under: Articles, Featured

The Virtuous Cycle of Diversity in Tech

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

The Virtuous Cycle of Diversity

Tech leaders are praised for being decisive, ingenious, and disruptive. And yet, when it comes to diversity and equity in hiring, many of us are stuck in a rut that is centuries out of date.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Why We Love Agile & Scrum

Gavin Graham, Account Director By Gavin Graham, Account Director

Agile and Scrum

Multiple projects, competing priorities, scarce resources, client feedback, and changes in requirements — if you’ve ever run a web development team, it’s likely that you’ve faced one (or all!) of these challenges.

By Gavin Graham, Account Director Filed Under: Articles

Teaching kids to code? Start by inspiring them to play

Rob Howard, Founder & CEO By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Teaching kids to code

It’s creative, unscripted, exploratory play — not computer science — that builds innovative, tech-savvy kids.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured

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