HTTPS Everywhere With Nginx, Varnish And Apache

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September 17, 2015 — The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default. This move has been encouraged by Google, which announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal. However, moving your website to HTTPS is good ... Read More…

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Anya Pratskevich wrote

What A/B Testing Taught Us About App Store Optimization

August 20, 2015 — 1.5 million apps in Apple’s App Store and another 1.5 million in Google’s Play store. That’s a lot of apps, and for a growing number of mobile users. An average user in the US will download only three new apps per month (at best), according to comScore’s “US Mobile App … Read More…

Dean Hume wrote

Understanding Critical CSS

August 13, 2015 — The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the <head> of your pages, yet how exactly do you do it if your site contains hundreds of pages, or even worse, hundreds of different templates? You … Read More…

Dave Newton wrote

Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick

June 25, 2015 — Responsive images have been keeping us on our toes for quite some time, and now that they are getting traction in browsers, they come with a scary problem: the need to efficiently resize all our image assets. The way responsive images work is that an appropriately sized … Read More…

Murdoch Carpenter wrote

A Better Way To Design For Retina In Photoshop

May 18, 2015 — Recently, I had a project in which I needed to produce high-fidelity screens for a tablet. I was to present these screens on the device and also produce a clickable prototype. They needed to be pixel-perfect. The timeline was tight (as always), so I went with my go-to tool, … Read More…

David Khourshid wrote

Extending In Sass Without Creating A Mess

May 4, 2015 — The @extend directive in Sass is a powerful directive that facilitates the sharing of rules and relationships between selectors. However, it can produce undesirable side effects if it is not carefully implemented. Thankfully, there are many strategies for using @extend … Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Controlling The Cache: Using Edge Side Includes In Varnish

February 16, 2015 — I’m a firm believer that the best way to optimize for fast-loading mobile sites is to optimize for everyone. We don’t know when someone is on a non-mobile device but tethered to their phone, or just on awful Wi-Fi. In a previous article for Smashing Magazine I explained how … Read More…

Mark Gavalda wrote

How To Choose The Best WordPress Hosting

September 25, 2014 — These days you have an awful lot of options for hosting your website, so many that it’s easy to get lost. How much should you pay? Is support important to you, or are you a tinkerer who likes to do your own thing? Read More…

Daniel Pataki wrote

A Quick Tour Of WordPress 4.0

August 27, 2014 — Today, WordPress has released the first release candidate (RC) for the upcoming 4.0 version. According to the official version numbering, WordPress 4.0 is no more or less significant than 3.9 was or 4.1 will be. That being said, a new major release is always a cause for … Read More…

Callum Macrae wrote

How To Build And Develop Websites With Gulp

June 11, 2014 — Gulp is one of quite a few build tools available in JavaScript, and other build tools not written in JavaScript are available, too, including Rake. Why should you choose it? Read More…