Have you ever wondered how well your website stacks up against the rest of the web? Ironscan.io is a website evaluation tool built to provide users with an instant analysis of any website. Just type in a URL and you’ll be able to see an in-depth, comprehensive overview of the site’s strengths and weaknesses. The Ironscan.io website evaluation […]
No matter what type of website you have, a valid SSL certificate and proper HTTPS redirects are a must. Learn why and how to force HTTP to HTTPS. Read on.
PHP sessions are a great way to track and store information specific to a user’s session in a PHP application. Learn how to use a WordPress PHP session.
“CSS is magic,” someone joked to me recently, as I demonstrated the pros and cons of a CSS3 pseudo-selector (specifically :nth-child). This got me thinking about Arthur C. Clarke’s third law of science and technology: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” While CSS is still leagues away from being indistinguishable from magic (although that depends on […]
Edit: Dreamweaver 2017 now natively can compile CSS preprocessor languages like SASS and LESS. It requires each site to have a specific entry in the Site Manager, and you can check out the full documentation for that here. If you are unable to have specific entries in the Site Manager or just isn’t worth the loss […]
As mobile app development exploded over the years, there was a bigger need to share data across domains and platforms. Initially, these cross domain requests were handled via SOAP web services, which can be very heavy in response time and size due to the XML output and additional negotiation time for the SOAP request headers. […]
What is The Loop? The Loop is PHP code that WordPress uses to display content from a single page/post onto your website, for example, the About page for a site. It can also be used to display a number of posts from a category on a category page. Here’s a basic example of how the […]
You may be saying to yourself “wow – another article referencing a ‘new age’ ?” Well, stay with me. There’s no denying how important security is for a business – just earlier this year, Tom Lydon talked about a security recipe essential for keeping your website safe. Our increasing connectivity (and number of users and potential […]
Explore the types of caches that boost website speed and performance. From browser to distributed caching, learn how they make your site faster and smarter!
