As the holidays approach, new team members are being added to our family at WebDevStudios (WDS). Let’s get to know them. Aaron Eaton Aaron joins WDS as our newest Lead Backend Engineer. He began his career as a studio technician at Texas A&M University where he was the only technical person within the department. He soon […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—time for your company to redesign, rebuild, or simply fix your website. We can hear the the flood of questions swirling around in your head or among your team at a Tuesday morning meeting… Do we have an in-house web designer and developer who can handle the workload?
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It can be challenging to be one of only a few people at an organization with a specific skill set, but Marie says there is nothing she’d rather do than play with data puzzles all day. Lucky for her, that is exactly what all of us in the marketing department depend on her for. In
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If you’ve visited our Team page recently, you likely have noticed some new faces. That’s because WebDevStudios (WDS) has added four new people to our crew: Haris Zulfiqar, Frontend Engineer; Dave Bonds, Backend Engineer; and Allen McNichols and Chrispian Burks, both who are working as Support Technicians at Maintainn, the WordPress maintenance and support arm
As a 100% distributed company with remote work employees across the US (and one in Canada!), WebDevStudios (WDS) relies on Slack as our main internal communication tool. So when Slack goes down, as it did yesterday, our team is directly affected, but the reactions are pretty comical. When you’re working remote and @SlackHQ has been
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At the start of 2018, Lead Backend Developer, Ben Lobaugh, announced that he was starting a new daily call that anybody on the WebDevStudios (WDS) team was welcomed to join. It would be a quick 15-minute call to chat about personal growth, leadership, and inspire a productive and passionate remote work environment. He named it
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It’s time for another rundown of the accomplishments that our team at WebDevStudios (WDS) has achieved through our Five for the Future (#5ftf) efforts, whereby we donate 5% of company time to WordPress and the community. We each do this in our own way, from developing plugins available for download in the WordPress repository to
It seems like every week, we have a new team member to announce. This week is no different. Please help us welcome Meagan Hanes, Support Technician, to the WebDevStudios (WDS) family. She joins the powerhouse support team at Maintainn. Meagan Hanes, Support Technician “I learned about this job through a friend’s posting on social media,” says
It’s no surprise that remote companies are growing in popularity. There are several perks to both the company and employee in working this way: low company overhead, hand-picking your team from anywhere in the world, no commuting, no one microwaving fish in the break room, etc. However, working remotely certainly isn’t perfect! One of the biggest
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I just returned from WebDevStudios’ (WDS) 2018 WDS Camp, a company-wide, weeklong retreat. The annual event provides face time for a team that is distributed across the entire geographical region that is the US. As I sat on the six-hour flight home, I reflected on the past week and noticed that nine concepts continued to
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