How to Enhance Your Loyalty Programs Using Social Media

Do you want to increase customer loyalty? Have you considered adding a social component to your loyalty program? Your loyalty program isn’t just about rewarding customers. It’s about encouraging ongoing communication. In this article you’ll discover how combining social media with your branded loyalty program can help you reach your campaign goals. Why Social in [...]

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Material Design Preloader

Material Preloader is a jQuery plugin that recreates the Material Design preloader.

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Material Design Preloader : jQuery Plugin

A jQuery plugin that recreates the Material Design preloader (as seen on inbox).I was fascinated when I first saw the preloader for Google’s inbox website so I thought I’d recreate it and turn it into a plugin so that others can use it in their app or website.

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Pickli : jQuery Carousel List Picker Plugin

jQuery Plug-in – Carousel Picker for li tags.

Features:

• Carousel Picker for list.


• Horizontal or vertical orientation.


• Align on left / center / right or top / medium / bottom.


• Custom class for selected and unselected items.


• Responsive with onResize event.


• Custom data key.


• Call data with ajax.


• Interactivity with custom events and cursor.


• Animated change with custom transitions.

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Farewell Disqus, Hello Discourse

It's hard to believe, but it's been nearly three months since we relaunched the SitePoint forums on Discourse. We're very happy with how smooth the process has been, both from a technical and a community standpoint. So happy, in fact, that we've decided to take it further. We're saying goodbye to the Disqus, the (similarly-named) commenting system we were using for articles, and implementing a WordPress Discourse plugin. Commenting will now take place on our Discourse platform, essentially integrating comment threads into our community. You'll see the same comment threads on the main SitePoint site, as well as in the forums. SitePoint began as a community many years ago and grew into a publication. As such we love the idea of a platform that allows us to combine those two aspects in a cohesive way.

So what does it mean for you?

If you are a member of our forum community it means that you'll be seeing an influx of interesting topics on the forums. If you're not already a community member, you'll now have the opportunity to see what it's all about... seamlessly. In terms of logistics, it's pretty simple. The first time you comment on an article you'll be prompted to log in to Discourse (if you're not already). If you don't have an account, you'll be prompted to create one. You can do that quickly and easily using your email address, a social media account, or GitHub. Existing comment threads will continue in Disqus for the next 30 days, so you can continue existing discussions before all articles move to the new platform. After the 30-day period ends, we'll keep those comments on the article. If you have any questions or concerns about accessing or creating your account, please email forums@sitepoint.com. You can also test out the new commenting system and let us know what you think!

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Life as a Sole Web Developer

I work as the sole web developer in a company of software developers. The company I work for has undergone a lot of structural and managerial changes lately, and we’re gradually making the transition from a very small business into being a part of a major publicly traded corporation. With this change came a reiteration of our contracts as well as some proposed job descriptions. My job description was very revealing of how alone I am here as the only web developer. It showed a complete misunderstanding of what I do and how I do it. There was no mention of HTML, CSS, JavaScript or any web technology.

Then I looked at the position title and it all became clear. The title read: “Software Developer / Web Developer”. Slash web developer: The web part is just an afterthought. My employer still thinks of me as doing the same work as a software developer, but with some mysterious black-box web stuff thrown in from time to time. This is typical, and not at all something I’m bothered by or upset about - your employers don’t know everything you know about your position and they shouldn’t have to. That’s why they hired you, after all!

Being the only person focused on web in a company is not particularly uncommon, but it’s an existence that is rarely discussed. To help change that, I’m going to talk a little about my current role and I’ll try to offer some advice where I can for other web developers in a similar position.

Own your role

Being the sole web developer is challenging, that’s true, but it’s also a great chance to make your mark within the company. As the sole web developer, particularly if you’re the first web developer, you have a rather enviable opportunity to plan out the whole stack - from technology, to test environment configuration, to documentation. The flipside: you’re solely responsible for those decisions, and any negative repercussions.

Own that fact. Know you’re responsible for anything “web” and be prepared to explain yourself when something goes wrong, perhaps to a deeper extent than normal. You’ll usually be explaining yourself to someone who knows very little to nothing about web development. Don’t make up excuses and your employer will respect you for having the self-confidence and the honesty to own up to your mistakes.

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