I’m in the process of shifting from Responsive Design site from the current CMS, Squiz Matrix, over on to WordPress. There are a number of reasons for the move which I might put into a post at some point, but I’ve been enjoying the freedom to create Custom Post Types for the different types of… Continue reading Using different permalink structures for custom post types
Category: Writing
Time tracking with Toggl
The pie chart for this XKCD Comic is me all over, and I often feel as though I’m turning into the procrastination monkey Time tracking is one of those things that I just hate doing for a few different reasons. I spend more time trying to remember how I spent my time then doing something… Continue reading Time tracking with Toggl
Progressive Invision – Offline use
On the way home yesterday afternoon I was going through a couple of designs that had been uploaded onto Invision with the Account Manager on the project. “On the way home” entails a 40 minute train ride for which I fortunately have access to WIFI although it is pretty patchy from time to time. I… Continue reading Progressive Invision – Offline use
Freelance website performance roles
I’m on a few slack channels these days and one of my favourite ones has to be the Web Performance Channel. As someone who is incredible passionate about responsive design I’ve also picked up the performance flag and fly it where ever I can. Unfortunately for me, and most other people that care about the… Continue reading Freelance website performance roles
SpaceX Notebooks — Phobos & Deimos
As you may be aware I started a small Notebook business recently, Back Pocket Notebooks, with a set of responsive design notebooks for my responsively designed audience. This week I received the next batch of notebooks which I have added to the stock list — a set of SpaceX Mars Posters. Over the next couple… Continue reading SpaceX Notebooks — Phobos & Deimos
Google Search Console Updates – Content Keywords & Site Grouping
If you manage a website the chances are that you’ve heard of and use the Google Search Console, the artist formally known as Webmaster Tools. If you’re sitting there scratching your head and wondering what I’m talking about then go and check out this article from Moz and get yourself started. The console is always… Continue reading Google Search Console Updates – Content Keywords & Site Grouping
Getting back to podcasting
You should be very aware that I love a great weekly newsletter. One of my recent favourite newsletters to receive is Paul Jarvis’ Sunday Dispatches where Paul imparts a very useful piece of nerdy knowledge each week. The content is around 95% educational and allows you to learn a lot about the web and how… Continue reading Getting back to podcasting
Is CriticalCSS harming our site performance?
In a recent article on Medium, JP DeVries wrote about “Unfolding Critical CSS“. Are you building a single web page that users will visit once never to return to or are you building a multi–page website that most users click around on for a while? If you inline an average of ~20kB of critical CSS… Continue reading Is CriticalCSS harming our site performance?
My local WordPress MAMP site slow
While I was on the train ride home today I was writing an article on my local copy of WordPress when I thought to myself “This is actually slower than working with the patchy wifi and GPRS”. The best thing about running your site locally is that you do not require an internet connection to… Continue reading My local WordPress MAMP site slow
Accessibility Dashboard – Pa11y Dashboard
Today I came across a wonderful article by Una Kravitz, a UI Engineer over at Digital Ocean, about how to set up an accessibility dashboard for your site/s in just 15 minutes. Usually these kinds of articles say “it’s easy! All you need to do is after you set up NPM, Gulp, Grunt, Node, Ruby,… Continue reading Accessibility Dashboard – Pa11y Dashboard