Amber Weinberg – Freelance Front-End WordPress Development

Finding a new freelancer developer can feel like a tall task – it’s a bit of a trust exercise because you often don’t know how someone is going to work out until you actually work with them.

Today’s CSS makes styling your websites so much easier than before, and thanks to modern selectors we can use a lot less code to accomplish a lot more functionality!

Everyone is feeling how dire our industry is right now with AI decimating our jobs and an influx of bloated libraries and frameworks – making us wonder if we’ll all still be here in five years.

Hosting matters more than you think – it can make or break your Google Lighthouse scores, as well as affect your website’s loading speed so much that customers leave before your first page even loads.

If you’ve ever listen to me talk about coding for more than five minutes, you know that I absolutely loathe letting machines code for me, or even just using someone else’s code base.

I’ve been coding for a very long time – I started when I was just 11 or 12 years old (around 1998).

I had a fun time this week coding a simple SVG map using CSS animations and thought it would be fun to share.

WordPress 7.0 is out and along with it, forced AI features.

I speak to a lot of different clients every week, and they almost always have the same complaints about working with freelancers.

I always do my best to code every site correctly the first time, using semantic and accessibility standards, but it’s still always a delight at the end when I run a Lighthouse test and find that I’ve already aced it!

Note: This is an upcoming feature, as of this writing it’s not supported by Firefox or Safari, but it’s coming soon!

In my ever continuing quest to reduce or delete Javascript dependencies, I’ve replaced my mobile menus and popup JS with their new HTML counterparts and my lightboxes with <dialog>s.