Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015
Performance is important in all aspects of life, and none more than business.
Oxford Dictionaries define performance as “A task or operation seen in terms of how successfully it is performed”
and this should be applied to every aspect of your business, including your website.
When it comes to performance metrics there are some key statistics you should be measuring on your website including page load speed, page size and number of requests. ...
Thursday, Sep 17, 2015
As you’ll be able to see if you’ve visited our site on more than one occasion, we’ve recently reorganised much of our content and changed to a new style of menu. In this post, I’m going to explain why we’ve made the changes we have, and how they should benefit our users. Hopefully you’ll be able to see some of the processes we go through when we’re suggesting improvements to client sites. ...
Monday, Mar 9, 2015
An interesting problem we’ve faced recently was that one one of our sites, our FlexNav based mobile menus were being forced to display even on large devices when advanced css aggregation was switched on.
When we switched it off to investigate the problem, it was magically resolved. Turn it back on again, and FlexNav breaks. On some pages of the site, the menus displayed as expected even when aggregation was switched on, though that might have been because those pages were more heavily cached. ...
Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015
Recently we’ve been working on updating our clients page, which required us to think, for the first time in a while, “what do people want from a clients page?”.
Our first thought as developers was to start bashing out lengthy case studies documenting the finer points of Drupal Commerce configuration and Apache Solr setups, but then we remembered we weren’t writing them for our benefit and went back to the drawing board. ...
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