Choosing a frontend framework is confusing
Published: Apr 1, 2017
My job title is frontend web developer, and I am confused. I am in a situation where there are now so many different options for me to start learning that I don’t know where to start. I always find a good place to start is the beginning, so here goes a little history lesson.
Organising Your Code
Published: Aug 10, 2016
Its easy to start writing code without thinking about the organisation, but take some time to plan and it will reward you later. Sometimes a new project is so exciting you just want to start coding and making things work, thinking that you will sort out the structure at a later date. After all, who cares as long as it works, right?
Its easy to get sucked into Page Speed hype
Published: Jul 11, 2016
There is a great tool available called Page Speed insights. It gives you an easy to use tool that you can use to measure the speed of your site out of 100. It gives you hints and tips about how you can improve the score of your site, through compressing JavaScript, reducing server response time and eliminating render blocking JavaScript and CSS. The idea being it gives visitors to your website the best experience.
Website Redesign for 2016
Published: Feb 29, 2016
What’s the best way to show what you can do? With your own website of course! That’s why I’ve decided to redesign my website.
JavaScript or jQuery?
Published: Feb 3, 2016
Whenever I search for an example of how someone has produced an effect or animation in JavaScript the majority of the time I end up finding jQuery examples instead of native JavaScript.
