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The quick guide to speeding up your websites

The quick guide to speeding up your websites

Speed is usability.To say it more accurately, website speed is a major part of usability. The most intuitive interface ever created by the mind of man will do you no good if the user is pee’d off by t

Creating Your First Interactive JavaScript Chart

Creating Your First Interactive JavaScript Chart

Data is all around us, and its visualization has already become an essential part of our lives. Charts, infographics, maps, and dashboards are in great demand today because they present information to

When to Use Old Code

When to Use Old Code

The point here is simple: the world more or less runs on old code, and that’s not always a bad thing. We, as designers and front end developers, could learn a thing or two.We generally think of older

How to Code a “Click to Tweet” Button

How to Code a “Click to Tweet” Button

With Instagram, Snapchat and other “young” social media platforms taking over the internet, Twitter still remains one of the most popular marketing channels.It has around 326 million active users per

CSS goes 3D with voxel.css

CSS goes 3D with voxel.css

The web is often seen as a decidedly two-dimensional medium. And, to be fair, it is. That’s what it was designed for.What’s more, the addition of three-dimensional graphics, rendered live, has traditi

How to write clickbait-free headlines

How to write clickbait-free headlines

Content is design, and our content is full of clickbait, these days. Sadly, there are many sites that are still using this technique to draw traffic to their pages. That should bother you.At the very

Speed up your sites with HTTP/2

Speed up your sites with HTTP/2

HTTP/2 is a new way of making your website load much faster by eliminating many inefficiencies associated with the current version of HTTP. The greatest thing about it? You don’t have to go to much ef

Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup

Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup

With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are prepared for it. It’s taking a lot of the best practices Google has recommended over the years and mak

Is it Time to Transition to JAMStack?

Is it Time to Transition to JAMStack?

For a while, Jamstack was mostly written off as just another buzzword in the developer space. However, today, it’s growing to become a powerful investment for many business leaders. Even big companies

Do Design Sprints Work (and Are They Worth It)?

Do Design Sprints Work (and Are They Worth It)?

Truth be told, there’s a lot of value that comes from doing design sprints. However, it’s not as simple as adopting Google Vision’s original system and instantly being able to create better digital pr

The web reacts to Facebook’s Reactions

The web reacts to Facebook’s Reactions

It’s inappropriate to ‘Like’ someone’s firing, breakup, fashion disaster, or untimely demise. That’s the conundrum Facebook has been struggling with since it introduced its ‘Like’ button seven years a

Designing effective web surveys

Designing effective web surveys

Web surveys are important tools that websites and businesses can use to gauge important feedback from their site visitors and customers. Web surveys are also somewhat unsung elements of a site because