As designers and developers, it’s common for us to create designs or demos to present for review. We’re supplied with information like the main objective, reasoning for the request, existing examples we might use as inspiration, and answers to questions we’ve asked. When it’s time to send that out for review, there are some do’s…
Category: Web Design
Diagnose Your Site’s Core Web Vitals with Lighthouse
Site performance is the future. In the early days, building a website was all about seeing what the web could do. Catching the user’s eye was more important than being fast. Trying a cool new menu design sometimes took priority over actually navigating the menu. Everyone was learning and building and sharing what worked and…
Boost Site Speed by Upgrading Images to WebP
Few improvements to a website’s speed compare with reducing the file size of images. And if quality can be maintained, it’s a no-brainer to let 10 megabytes do the work of 100. It’s estimated that images account for about half of a webpage’s file size, so even minor tweaks can yield big results. That’s where…
WordPress 5.8 Brings Full Site Editing in Gutenberg, Numerous New Blocks, and More
WordPress 5.8 was released on July 20. This is the second release of the year and it is chock-full of new features. The most notable update involves the continued roll-out for Full Site Editing within the Gutenberg editor. Some major highlights include: tons of new theme blocks like the Query Loop Block, the ability to…