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    Did You Know The Internet Has Huge Feet?

    Building a website is about more than coding and creating content… it’s about ENERGY. The Importance of a Carbon Footprint By: Jaiden Molyneux (Based on Kettle, 2021) Each page you click is connected to servers, cooling systems, and network infrastructure, all powered by electricity. Jeff Kettle reminds us that these invisible “clouds” are huge energy machines. His site loads at around 1.3 g CO2 per visit, while sites with a ton of images can use 54 g CO2 per visit. With billions of daily visits, those grams start to add up! A Message To Remember: simplistic pages not only load faster they help the planet! No One’s As Needy As Big Data…

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    WordPress: Creativity Killer or Terrific Tool?

    By: Jaiden Molyneux Whether this is your first blog post or you’re the Walt Disney company, WordPress can be a vital tool in building a brand. Jordi Cabot’s WordPress: A Content Management System to Democratize Publishing and Elisabetta Adami’s Styling the Self Online: Semiotic Technologization in Weblog Publishing, are articles that provide multiple POV’s on the infamous tool. Article #1: WordPress as a Digital Equalizer (Cabot,2018) Cabot (2018) describes WordPress as an innovative content management system (CMS) that’s made web publishing accessible for everyone, from bloggers to big businesses. He outlines its evolution from a basic blogging tool into one that powers 29% of the web at the time of…

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