Charles Forster

10+ years in software design & development, and delivered products used by hundreds of thousands of users. I'm passionate about the product creation process and building productive teams.

Passionate about personal & leadership growth for founders and entrepreneurs.

Author: Charles Forster

You can't wait for luck to fall in your lap
Personal Development
Charles Forster

The Truth About Luck In Business

I cringe when I hear people refer to successful business leaders as lucky as if the stars aligned and dropped all the keys to success and fortune in their lap. Luck has nothing to do with success. Perseverance and seizing opportunity does. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I am a great believer in luck, and I

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Personal Development
Charles Forster

Tough Day? Stop Staring At Your Feet

We all have those days. The ones where it feels like you’re in a backfiring Pinto with torn seats and a sticky clutch. And then there’s the days where you feel like you’re in a 4-wheel-drive sports car effortlessly gripping the road and cruising through the gears. Work-wise, both days are the same—stressful coding challenges, managing several

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Where Do Your Previous & Next Links Go in WordPress?

One of the cornerstones of successful web design is being able to easily navigate a page within a website easily with no surprises. These days visitors have a short attention span and an even shorter tolerance for a website not working correctly. We can’t really get away from it, in these days convenience is key

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Shortcodes and Line Breaks in WordPress

I just discovered the beauty of working with WordPress shortcodes and the the frustration that can come along with it. If you’re building websites for clients, it can mean the difference between repeat calls about them breaking code in the backend and the peace and quite of a satisfied client who knows how to edit

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Color Shift Between Photoshop and The Real World, A.K.A. Online

As designers, we’ve all been there, we build a comp in Photoshop were incredibly happy with that we’ve spent a good amount of time color proofing only to save it as a JPG, open it in our browser and it looks dull and washed out. It gets even more complicated when you’re working with another

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The Windshield Holds the Future, Not the Rear-view Mirror

I’m a serial procrastinator. I always have been. My Dad always said to me “Always put off what you can easily do today, tomorrow might be too late, right, Chaz?” In the past few years I’ve made leaps and bounds in learning not to fall into the traps so easily afforded by instant gratification at

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