Design & Dev Tuesday: Our top Core Web Vitals recommendations for 2023
A collection of the best practices that the Chrome DevRel team believes are the most effective ways to improve Core Web Vitals performance in 2023.
Mobile Monday: The Guide To Responsive Design In 2023 and Beyond
When I hear the term “responsive design”, the first thing that I think about is different device sizes. It’s just there in my subconscious mind. I bet some of you might be thinking the same, too. Currently, responsive design means a lot of different things.
Thursday Tips & Tools: 25 Free Tools to Test Your Website
Regularly testing your ecommerce website’s performance will ensure it’s running at an optimal level. There are plenty of free resources available to help. Here is a list of free tools to test your website. There are tools to measure download speed, monitor user experience, test accessibility, locate broken links, evaluate search engine and browser compatibility, and check mobile friendliness. All of these tools have free plans, and most offer premium options.
Mobile Monday: Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
Classic mobile-first CSS development is based on the principle of overwriting style declarations: you begin your CSS with default style declarations, and overwrite and/or add new styles as you add breakpoints with min-width media queries for larger viewports (for a good overview see “What is Mobile First CSS and Why Does It Rock?”). But all those exceptions create complexity and inefficiency, which in turn can lead to an increased testing effort and a code base that’s harder to maintain. Admit it—how many of us willingly want that?
Mobile Monday: How to make WordPress sites mobile friendly
Why should a website be mobile friendly? Because more people than ever search for and access content on their mobile devices, the sites you design must work well on those devices and provide information in a readable manner.
Design & Dev Tuesday: Loading Third-Party JavaScript
Third-party scripts provide a wide range of useful functionality, making the web more dynamic, interactive, and interconnected. These scripts may be crucial to your website’s functionality or revenue stream. But third-party scripts also come with many risks that should be taken into consideration to minimize their impact while still providing value. Why do you need to be careful about third-party scripts?
Mobile Monday: Mobile vs. Desktop Market Share and Usage Statistics In 2022
There are 5.1 billion people on the internet, and they’re increasingly turning to mobile devices to browse and shop online. In the mobile vs. desktop war, the two have gone head to head. Who’s winning?
SEO Saturday: What Are SERPs? Search Engine Results Pages and SERP Features Explained
It’s second nature to type in a simple word or phrase to have millions of results presented to you across thousands of pages. There’s even a name for them. We call those Search Engine Results Pages or SERPs for short.
Friday Freestyle: The 5 Elements (or Components) of WordPress
WordPress is an open-source, dynamic, content management system (CMS powering over one third of the world’s websites. To understand how WordPress works, we break down the 5 components that join to make the single most popular CMS in the world.
Mobile Monday: The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design
If you’ve been in the web design industry as long as I have, you know one thing is imminent, the only constant is change. Just about every 10 years or so, there’s a fundamental shift in how we do things that are paramount to leapfrogging what we’ve done before… and we are about to leap in to the next phase once again.