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 Development
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…
Pros and Cons of the Most Popular API Authentication Methods
Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, can handle enormous amounts of data. The type of data can be pretty much anything, such as a product’s information and specifications, a user’s email address and phone number, the credit card used for a transaction, or a person’s social security number. Because APIs are used to handle publicly available…