There used to be a lot of guesswork required for new website owners launching an online store. Google decided it was time to eliminate any mystery by compiling a comprehensive checklist on how to open your shop to the world. This comes as a welcome change for developers who previously mapped their own way to…
Category: Web Design
How to Communicate Clearly When Sharing Designs and Demos
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…
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…