Posts tagged: “development”

Using Defer to improve performance

Using Defer to improve the performance of my website by only loading JavaScript and CSS on a per component/partial basis.

Exploring the benefits of HTTP2

Since this website is hosted on Netlify & they serve websites using the HTTP/2 protocol I've started exploring the benefits of it

Multiple blogs with Perch CMS

Short post to show how you can create multiple blogs using the Perch CMS and the blog app using sections.

My Git Aliases

Quick post to share my Git aliases. I love seeing other developers' aliases - a lot of mine have been copied from others. So I thought I'd share mine - in the hopes someone will find it useful.

Automatic copyright year in Perch CMS

How to auto update your copyright year with Perch CMS. In this short blog post I share a small code snippet that you can add to automatically update your copyright year.

Adding SVG icons to a sprite with Perch CMS

Allow a Perch CMS user to add SVG icons to an SVG sprite and use them through out the website. Usually, SVG sprites are created by a developer/designer when building a website and then never revisited unless the site has a redesign. The creation of a sprite is likely to be an automated process using a task runner like Grunt or Gulp JS.

Newsletters for Front-end developers

Because there is so much content and noise on the web about development theses days, its difficult to find great ressources - its also very easy to miss hearing about new software or new techniques via social media. Newsletters are still a great way to keep up with all thats happening in our industry and front end development.