Of all the elements that go into making a website, scripts can be the most versatile. However, going hand-in-hand with their versatility is the potential for scripts to have a huge impact on website performance, making them a key part…
Sometimes, our site optimisation issues go beyond our website code and are, instead, more closely-related to our server configuration. Though optimising our code should be a priority, we should also be mindful of the effects our server configuration can have…
Of all the parts of a website that have an effect on its overall weight, images, and multimedia elements usually have the greatest impact. In fact, the HTTP Archive Page Weight report shows that in the majority of cases graphical…
At a time when design is moving towards minimalism, focusing on greater simplicity and legibility, typeface can become one of the most distinguishing features of website pages. That's why graphic designers are often eager to use non-standard typefaces; it helps…
CSS provides the "tools" we need to make visually-striking websites, and we'll often find ourselves exploring new methods, functions and features that will help us raise the aesthetic impact of our site. But it's important to remember that the CSS…
Though truly catastrophic hosting datacenter issues rarely occur, if/when they do, it can be, to put it mildly, rather inconvenient for their users. Without adequate measures in place, such critical situations can lead to people and companies losing valuable data,…
When discussing analytics, I've observed that website owners frequently display absolute faith in the veracity of the data collected in services such as Google Analytics. They believe it to the point that when encountering a difference between the analytics and…
Contact pages are a common and, indeed, a seemingly necessary addition to websites; in most cases this will include a contact form as the main method of communication with the site owners. However, when working with static pages such as…
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