WebDigital

09/21/2024

Looking to gather support or signatures for a cause? Whether it's a digital endorsement, commitment registry, or name pledge, WebDigital makes it easy to create your own sign-up website in minutes. Check out this quick 12-minute demo to see how you can build it effortlessly:

This type of application has many names: digital endorsement, commitment registry, name pledge, etc. The main idea is to build a website where you can have p...

09/20/2024

Around 65% of websites worldwide are static, primarily focused on collecting leads through contact form submissions. In today's competitive digital marketing landscape, continuous experimentation and measurement are crucial for success. That's why tracking form submissions is so important—and with WebDigital, it's incredibly easy. Our seamless integration with Google Analytics unlocks a world of reporting possibilities. Best of all, because the tracking is built-in, there's no performance penalty when monitoring your website's activity. Check out our quick demo to see how it works:

In this video, we’ll guide you through the simple process of tracking form submissions with email notifications, database tables and Google Analytics. Normal...

09/17/2024

You do not need to pay for AWS Lambda functions. WebDigital has free Node.js API calls you can easily call from your applications. It's already very easy to call the APIs from WebDigital UI. We now have an NPM library that makes it possible for you to call WebDigital APIs externally from your applications elsewhere. The library is totally isomorphic, which means you can use it from browsers and node.js both. If you have a streaming API, you can also return it and display results as they become available. Totally free! Check it out:

In this video, we will show how you can create a Node.js API and make API calls easily without the need for any hosting solutions! Whether you're a beginner ...

09/13/2024

Don't Repeat Yourself. Wise words. It is now possible to use common JS modules (ESM) in WebDigital node.js APIs. Here's a short video of how to refactor common code:

In this video, we dive deep into the world of JavaScript by exploring effective techniques for refactoring common code patterns specifically for Node.js API ...

09/12/2024

API is a very simple concept in its core, but setting up AJAX calls to it involves a ton of development. You need to setup your IDE, express server, middleware, SPA framework, fetch call, error handling, devops, etc. WebDigital makes it much much easier! No need for dev setup. No middleware. On the server, you create a simple JS function for API. On the client, you say this.callApi to call it. That's it. It's super simple, but also flexible to handle any complicated scenarios you may encounter. Check out this video https://youtu.be/fylMPJLlx4w and let us know what you think in comments.

In this comprehensive step-by-step guide, you will learn the easiest way to create a JavaScript Server API! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced devel...

09/10/2024

There are many analytics platforms but Google Analytics is still the champion with almost 90% market share of the analytics market. It may not be as user-friendly and may lack some features, but it's very good for a free product. In this video we show how to integrate WebDigital websites with Google Analytics to be able to track and report website activity.

Google Analytics is a platform that collects data from your websites to create reports that provide insights into your business. In this video, you'll learn ...

09/04/2024

WebDigital makes it super easy to manage users and setup authentication. Here's how to build a client portal with SQL database based authentication in 7 minutes:

In this tutorial, we explain how you can build a full stack application for a client portal WITHOUT CODING! There are a few platforms that can do this but th...

08/20/2024

Forms are super important for web development. That's how you collect information for the most part. They are usually used to build web applications, but most of the time all you need is a simple contact form to collect information and save that information somewhere. WebDigital makes that super easy and it has the most flexible visual form builder you can imagine. Here's a video that shows how:

Forms are super important for web development. That's how you collect information. They are usually used to build web applications. However, a lot of the tim...

08/14/2024

There are tons of examples of calling OpenAI Chat GPT APIs. Not so much on streaming. Streaming makes your UI, backend, the entire architecture much more difficult. Unfortunately, it is required for many cases. Many times users do not even know how to express it but they may say "it takes longer". WebDigital makes that super easy. Here's how:

In this video, we’ll guide you through the process of streaming the OpenAI CHAT GPT API directly to your website with minimal JavaScript coding skills! Wheth...

08/07/2024

Web development changed a lot over the years, but the fundamentals are the same. You setup a database, APIs and front-end to accomplish various forms of CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations. WebDigital can now host SQL databases. This makes it possible to build full stack applications easily, without the baggage of server/devops setup. Here's a short video that show how:

07/30/2024

If you want to render an illustration on a web page, SVGs are definitely the way to go. They can render images much more efficiently and they can scale up/down infinitely. In this video we show how to convert regular images (JPG and PNGs) to SVGs. This removes the blurriness of images when scaled up. It is especially great for logos. For more complex images posterize feature can be used to create dramatic effects. In some cases this conversion may even reduce the image size significantly.

SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an image format that can be used to draw illustrations on web pages efficiently. In this video we show how to convert regu...