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Finding inspiration is not as easy as people think. It takes time to find out what you actually want to do with a website and which design would work for what kind of business. If you are running short on time and you are in desperate need for inspiration, here are some of the best resources to meet your muse: Site Inspire This website has a massive library of Web designs which you can filter according to your own needs. You’ll be able to get inspired by a host of wonderful business and industry designs. You can even filter this […]

If our server can’t keep up with the number of requests its getting, we have two basic options; scale up, add more servers or server resources, or make the program more efficient. A perfectly-optimized program would never run out of server resources. That’s a great ideal, but its hard and processing power is cheap, so we add a few more cores. Scaling up is our default. Like a lot of developers, I spend a lot of time working on these types of scaling problems. As I’ve grown my business, I’ve learned the hard way that I have to give up […]

This post is part of a series on React development for WordPress developers. In my last post, I covered unit testing React components using Jest. Jest, when used for basic assertions and snapshot tests can cover a lot of the functionality of a React component. The “React Way” of developing interfaces calls for composing interfaces, which are themselves components, out of smaller components. Jest lets us test each component in isolation, but we’ll also need to make sure that component work as intended when nested inside of each other. This article also covers looping through React components — for example, […]

Data is a huge part of any website. It’s important to know exactly who is reading your content and which topics are getting read the most. These numbers help you plan your content. However, how much can you really trust your website stats, e.g. Google Analytics? The answer should be not that much. Data from three separate UK membership organizations shows up to 78% of website visits are not being recorded in Google Analytics. Initial data discrepancies Year Out Group were concerned their website visitor numbers in Google Analytics have been dropping year-on-year since 2013. This is despite strong search […]