Screencast videos are a really powerful way of demonstrating web development issues to clients. Whether showing the impact of changes from back-end to front-end or from third party tools like Pingdom, clients love to see behind the curtain – but ideally in an explainer video lasting no more than 10 minutes.
Web & Tech
Understanding the New srsltid Parameter in Google Search URLs: What’s Really Going On?
Recently, many webmasters, SEO professionals, and curious users have noticed a new query string parameter—srsltid—being appended to URLs in Google search results. While this might …
New Google AMP Warning “Image size smaller than recommended size”
If you’re running AMP for fast loading pages on the mobile web (and, if you’re not, you should give it a try, it’s awesome!), you maybe got a notification in Search Console (AKA Google Webmaster Tools) that “Image size smaller than recommended size” for some or all of your AMP content.
Vivid Seats Acquires Vegas.com in $240M Deal to Expand Entertainment Reach
In a strategic move to deepen its presence in the entertainment sector, online ticket exchange and resale company Vivid Seats Inc. has purchased Vegas.com. The …
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN – What to do!?
A Chrome error which pops up regularly enough for developers and clients I have worked with to warrant a “what to do” article is the …
Easy Invoicing & Accounts for Freelancers and Agencies
UPDATED July 2022
I’m regularly in touch with a coterie of around 250 specialist developers over at Codeable and a common pinch-point for their freelancing activities outside the platform is finding an easy way to invoice clients and keep track of payments. Indeed, it’s why Codeable is preferable for many.
With recent Making Tax Digital requirements for Limited companies (and others) who have registered for UK VAT, you may find HMRC is insisting on you using “third party software” to report your VAT. A key advantage of FreeAgent is that it can track and submit your VAT (and company, and personal) accounts, directly, into HMRC, having reconciled the original payment directly from your bank.
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Twenty Twenty Two-Theme Performance Issues
I’ve been playing with the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, as I like to run the most recent theme release on WordPress, in order to demonstrate how …
PHP 8 is Released!
Give thanks! For PHP 8.0.0 is here… released just 40 minutes ago, today, Thanksgiving Day.
How to Add Someone to your Google Search Console Account
I’ve had to explain this a few times recently, so probably there isn’t a good, clear explanation out there on Google, for this little corner of Google 🙂
Changing habits in online shopping – smart homes, IoT & automated shopping
In the past. The oldendays. You know, that bricks and mortar world in which the corporeal and the incorporeal were much less, well, combined, we would do things like create lists, and go to the shops to buy the things on those lists.