KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. I found that most users praise edX’s courses for their useful content, but complain about the platform’s UX — most often about the hard and time-consuming verification process and poor customer support. Other approaches.

Education 83

Education Website Google Design 83

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

Website 103

Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. As you can see in this piece of code, we do an extra set processing on the wildcard if it’s the base domain we set the wildcard to home (if taking user input, this is a case you will need to handle) and if we are testing on localhost we can test out other wildcards.

Servers 83

Servers Website Code Best Practices 83

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. When I began working with the legendary newspaper and magazine designer Mark Porter, I became fascinated by art direction and editorial design. When a magazine has plenty of interesting design elements, I buy it. Avaunt magazine.

Design 104

Design Media Energy Innovation 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

This allows the browser’s preload scanner to detect and download the image early in the process — something it cannot parse from a CSS file. There is a wealth of information on websites to help guide you along your learning path. Instead, we’re going to load the image as a standard HTML <img> tag in the markup.

Media 73

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 73

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. What Makes A Good Video Processing Solution? The media solution should be able to find your videos in your current process — when videos are added to the cloud, they should be automatically processed into streams.

Media 106

Media Speed Network Analytics 106

Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

As she focused on UX strategy, design patterns for responsive websites, and mobile-first design, she quickly realized that it’s critical to create a culture that prioritizes web performance. Gringaus notes that in the past, performance was something that was thought about toward the end of the process of developing a site. Conclusion.

Performance 72

Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. This is a click heatmap of a website.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It may seem enchanting how well-designed apps or websites can boost your sales, but it takes far more than a handful of fairy dust to make users enjoy their interactions. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. When it comes to the decision-making process, many businesses make the same mistake over and over again.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As stated, it’s a lightweight library that’s quickly installed over the terminal, and can be used to set up configure-domain, deploy static or serverless websites — all done on the terminal. Serverless UI also works great with any static website, and websites that use serverless functions to handle requests to some sort of API.

Serverless 123

Serverless Lambda AWS Website 123

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

I am assuming some basic knowledge of the design process and UX research, but I’ll provide plenty of practical examples and reference links to help with any terms and concepts you might be unfamiliar with. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process.

Google 59

Google Design Strategy Website 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 8 covers the issues around imprecision and probability and shows how we need to design systems, interactions, and processes that prevent mistakes — especially avoiding catastrophe when mistaken taps are made. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites.

Mobile 87

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Example: If you want to test the checkout process in an online shop, don’t perform all of the other steps, such as creating the products and categories, even though you will need them to process the checkout. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine.

Testing 135

Testing Website Code Efficiency 135

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Development Process. Development Process. Vue Devtools ,” website. Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Uma Victor. 2021-07-08T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Custom Directives ,” Official Docs. Vue’s Reactivity ,” Official Docs. “ Talk on Composition API vs Vuex.

Speed 132

Speed Processing Development Code 132

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. The rule of thumb is the less, the better. Prefetching. Lazy Loading.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. This process feels fast for the client and they can now see the set of data, however it may be a touch out of date. Using SWR With Next.js Project Structure.

Cache 102

Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. With Gatsby, you can pull data from (almost) anywhere and use it to generate static or dynamic websites. Paulina Hetman. 2021-12-27T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-27T12:05:13+00:00. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website 127

Website Open Source Code Availability 127

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

I wasn’t progressing, our projects were being rejected or de-prioritized by management, and I spent months designing a mobile website and a separate desktop experience for two products only for these to be swiftly brushed to the side. Are you interested in the agile design process? I was once stuck in a full-time job. Yes, stuck.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. All this process sounds like a bit too much, right? Leonardo Losoviz.

Website 82

Website Serverless AWS Lambda 82

Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

I repeat the process for the aside element, with this new :after content replacing the generated image I added for small screens: aside:before { grid-column: 1; content: url("data:image/svg+xml…"); } aside:after { grid-column: 3; content: url("data:image/svg+xml…"); }. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Large preview ).

Design 97

Design Media C++ Availability 97

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. First, FID is a measure of the time it takes the page to start processing an interaction or the input delay. It only looks at the delay of the event process.

Traffic 94

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts.

Performance 95

Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 95

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

Cache 123

Cache Internet Internet Google 123

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Browsers construct a render tree using DOM and CSSOM, and the page renders once all render-blocking resources like CSS, font files, and scripts have been parsed and processed. Adrian Bece.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Solving Image Headaches In Gatsby I think that the process of optimizing images can fall into four different buckets: Optimize image files. This can be done manually or during a build process. These are great principles for any website, not only those built with Gatsby.

Media 79

Media Network Processing Code 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences.

Design 119

Design Media Entertainment Website 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This process is recommended even if we aren’t designing something big or in the capacity of a designer. Wireframing tools can be the next step in the process (rather than the first.). A good way to start practicing this kind of sketching technique is to take an existing website and reverse engineer the sketch. Large preview ).

Design 124

Design Website Open Source Mobile 124