I really should stop with the clickbait headlines! A couple of months ago I posted about how SEO is dead and now I’m doing it again. Well, this time I can safely say that HTTP is not in fact dead. But it is losing out to HTTPS, as more and more websites are going secure. There are…
SEO is dead
Ok ok, so it’s not exactly dead… or is it? No, it’s not. Well, depends on what you really mean, I guess. Search Engine Optimisation has always been big business, ever since there were search engines. And ever since then, people have been saying that SEO has been dead. For me, SEO is an evolution,…
Testimonials
I’ve recently received some really positive feedback for some work I’ve done, and I was chuffed to bits. I’m not massively good at bragging, even the artful humble brag, but I think I really should add a testimonials page to my site when I get the chance, so I can look back and try to…
Caching php files on Cloudflare
Oh dear, I’ve definitely broken my New Year’s resolution now – it’s been 16 days since my last confession… I mean blog post! I’ve spoken before about how I use Cloudflare to improve both security and performance. In short, they have an ever increasing number of edge nodes, which they cache content at and then return results directly,…
Optimising images the easy way
One of the largest assets on any website these days are the images, especially with the current trend for big hero images and image sliders on front pages. This means that they are a prime target for attention when working on a development process. There are many things that you can do to compress images, and…
Now page
One thing that I was looking at adding to my site, but delayed when I decided to combine my website and blog using WordPress was a “now” page. This is something that I discovered when looking at Jason Zook’s website, on which he has a “now” page, which itself was inspired by Derek Sivers. The idea is kind of like…