With the recent challenges imposed by COVID-19, it’s not surprising that the number of people earning an income from independent work in the U.S. rose 34 percent in 2021 (see below). But making the switch to freelance web development full-time is not an easy decision. To successfully make the switch, Read more
JDay USA is nearly here and we’re super excited to participate again this year. We love sponsoring this event, and once again we’ll host website development experts in our virtual sponsor booth. I’ll also be giving a talk on using Cloudflare to improve the performance of your website. Cloudflare has Read more
On Tuesday, May 18 we’ll be attending the online Joomla User Group London meeting at 6PM UTC and giving a live Watchful demo. In the demo we’ll review the basics of our website management platform and then highlight recent developments such as the Account Dashboard, stale backup detection and automatic Read more
As part of JDay USA, Watchful hosted an Ask Me Anything session focused on website maintenance. We invited a panel of Joomla and WordPress experts to help answer your questions. The session was a great success. The questions and discussion points covered a broad range of topics well beyond simply Read more
For those who don’t know me, I’m Victor Drover, the owner of Watchful. Next week is my birthday — the BIG five-oh! To celebrate I’m hosting an Ask Me Anything session focused on website maintenance. When and where The AMA will begin Friday, April 23rd at 8:00 AM UTC-5 (check Read more
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most in-person conferences to either cancel or move online. Web design conferences were no exception. The coming of age of truly engaging online conference platforms seemed to portend a bright future for online meetings. But here in the spring or 2021 it feels Read more
ke many communities, Joomla users pine for the return of live events. And we grew tired of Zoom conferences many months back. A new and innovative event called Joomla Day USA will be held on April 23-24, 2021 that hopes to address both issues. It is a refreshing and exciting Read more
WordFest Live is a 24 hour celebration for those of us in the remote work community with a heathy dose of WordPress learning thrown in. WordFest is organized by Big Orange Heart in support of mental health and well-being for remote workers. This topic is important to us here at Read more
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress, and we know that lots of you do too. Normally, April, May and June are the peak of the conference season for our favorite CMS’s. I live down in Florida in the United States and during the spring, I’m often able Read more
On today’s Watchful podcast we’re speaking with SD Williams from Danico Enterprises. SD runs her Joomla agency from Chicago where she also teaches content strategy at DePaul University. SD uses Joomla for most of her client work, and organizes both Joomla Day Chicago and Joomla User Group Chicago North. We Read more