Page Speed Optimisation - Latest Techniques
Optimising our font loading and htaccess file. Includes image manipulations using srcset, webp and lazy loading. Make your sites load faster!
Latest Blog Posts
Simplifying Local Development for Craft CMS
Setting up local development with MAMP and composer without the need for valet, homestead, docker, etc. We also make use of project config and automation.
High Availability Hosting for CraftCMS
We look at how to build and configure a HA server environment using the command line. We also configure Craft to use external Redis and Database servers.
Understanding Tachyons CSS
Understanding the benefits of Utility-First CSS and getting the most out of it with Tachyons, a CSS framework that enables you to create fast-loading, scalable and responsive websites while writing as little CSS as possible.
Getting Technical: Building Complex Craft Plugins
Long Read: This acts as an in depth centralised location for plugin development
The Impossible PageSpeed Score
It's achieveable and we've done it, but we don't think that 100% pagespeed scores on both desktop and mobile are practical on the web any longer.
GDPR - Generating a Data Report Within Craft CMS
Steps we’ve taken using Craft CMS to simplify the process of generating a data report for our clients
Building our first plugin for Craft 3
We go through the main changes for Craft 3 which have affected our custom plugins
Using Content Migrations in Craft 3
See how we have used Content Migrations to create a base set of fields, volumes, and plugins to be added to a fresh Craft 3 install
The impact of Google Tag Manager on pagespeed
Can our tracking tools really have that much of an impact on the website if we add them into google tag manager?
Lazy Loading: Why We Implement It And How Its Done
Most social media sites have championed this feature so we want to tell you what lazy-loading is and how you can use it