The blog (and general ramblings) of a freelance web designer

How Google Page Speed Insight scores impact on SEO, and what that means for businesses. We’ve all heard the term “page speed” in relation to SEO, but how much do we actually know about what it means? What does page speed have to do with users’ experience on your site? Is it an important factor […]

I was speaking to a friend of mine who runs a restaurant. We discussed a lot over a virtual glass of whisky (via Google Meet) and we talked about how the restaurant industry has embarked on a major digital shift. Those who’ll endure the pandemic and come out stronger need a website that handles this […]

This article’s approach to the ever-shifting variable that is “Conversion Rate” is going to be addressed much in the way your site should be. That is, with: No fluff, No hype, With Transparency, and with a Clear and Pre-meditated Direction. To presume your potential customers won’t subconsciously detect a lack of confidence, passion, and direction […]

In part one, I discussed the need for a great host. A VPS or dedicated hosting of some kind will usually give you a much quicker connection and help to bring your page speed score right up. My recommendation is to go with cloud hosting from somebody like Nimbus Hosting – they are the company […]

Let me start by saying, getting 100/100 on a production website that isn’t just some text on a page is pretty hard to do, if not impossible. There are so many factors that make up your site speed and it’s virtually impossible to get the holy grail of a perfect score. But, we can try! […]

It’s all well and good if your website looks great. That’s amazing. We want more gorgeous websites up on the internet, making it beautiful.

We could all do with being a bit more productive, right? We go on Awwwards for some inspiration and 2 hours later we’re playing on Pottermore. Or we hit up Slack for some knowledge, and the next thing you’re 200 messages deep about that cat video on YouTube. But there are some things we can […]

It’s 2018, and this year is already flying by. You might be a fellow web designer or web developer – or you may be someone looking to launch a website yourself. Either way, I’ve compiled a list of essential pre-launch tasks you really should undertake.

I recently found myself needing to create an infinite loop of posts. So once you’re reading a blog article, you can click to the next one. But what happens when there aren’t any more to read? Well, the client wanted it to go back to the first post. So, I wrote this little gem. Feel free to use:

The future holds a lot of Augmented Reality, as realised in the recent F8 keynote. And having a solid grasp of languages like Swift will allow me to work on things like this almost immediately.

Did you know you could emulate print styles using Inspect Element? No? Me either!

On many occasions, I find the need to create a custom post type, and on top of that, I don’t just want to display 10 posts in the archive. So, with a bit of ‘pre get posts’ magic, we can set the number of posts to display, just like you would with a normal WP […]