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I don’t remember exactly when I first started developing websites, although it was over ten years ago and I was still in school; just to give a rough indication of my age now! When I started, I didn’t know anything about the industry and what it was really like to code as a career. My […]
Last month, WordPress 4.9 was released to the public after roughly three to four months of constant hard work in making sure that all of the planned features and outstanding bug reports were closed and ready to be shipped, in a stable product for the world to use. It was made possible by the four […]
Over the many years that WordPress has existed, it has constantly grown and become a more and more complex Content Management System (CMS). This means the broad set of features available allows anyone from a developer to a regular user to use it in a variety of different ways. Essentially, you’re able to chop and […]
We all know the few basic rules we need to follow to ensure a nice, speedy and accessible website: efficient design, architecture and coding, good content, well compressed images and good hosting. Today I’m going to concentrate on image compression, hopefully giving some simple but helpful advice. Efficient image size was something that was very […]
Developing a new website is a complicated endeavour, with a huge number of factors competing for your time and attention. I sat down with Paul Coffey, our Production Director and some of the team here at Coast Digital, to talk about how content and website projects intersect – this article will cover some of the […]
What is HTML5? HTML5 is the fifth iteration of the HTML markup language. This current version has allowed for developers and designers to create small canvasses that can be used for ad formats. HTML5 has made video more accessible on the web, as they can now be hosted in HTML5 canvas, rather than the traditional […]
The purpose of a wireframe is to communicate a page or interface’s structure, story and information hierarchy. It’s important to remember that a wireframe is a design, a blueprint for the eventual artwork, but doesn’t need to look pretty. However a good wireframe should follow basic design principles. Getting Started Number, title and label your templates […]
According to Alexa.com’s rankings of top sites in the UK, bbc.co.uk is the 7th most used site, while the most recent SimilarWeb rankings of U.K media publishers has the BBC receiving the most pageviews. To sum up, if you didn’t already know, the BBC website is a big deal. Right now, the BBC website isn’t […]
Whether or not you rely on open source software in your daily business activities at the moment, it’s crucial you’re aware of it and understand how it can help your business grow. Open source software is, to put it simply, software made by the public and available for free. There are so many projects out […]
In 2003 WordPress launched as a rudimentary tool to improve typography. Now in 2017 over 27% of the entire World Wide Web is using WordPress to power their websites, with more than 24 posts being published every second. So with 1 in every 4 websites using WordPress as their CMS, it’s more than likely that […]
