Blog Category: Web Development

An organization’s digital marketing efforts often rely upon the foundation of a precisely crafted and well-optimized website that simplifies the process of publishing and managing content. Good web development practices are critical to success.

We cover a number of topics in this category including WordPress security and tips for keeping your website from getting hacked, technologies like HTTP2, Node.js, CSS, and yes, even Flash, and techniques for improving website performance, such as enabling caching, using shared libraries, and properly setting up redirects. We also discuss good development practices such as agile methodologies and the importance of building sustainable deployment practices to make sure your team and website alike are primed for the long haul.

We hope this information helps our clients and others better understand the importance of a strong technology foundation upon which to build any online business or marketing endeavors. If you’re looking for help with building, improving, or optimizing your website, check out our web development services.

05.15.2014

Building Sustainable Development and Deployment Processes

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with devops, drupal, git, rails, sustainable web design, vagrant, virtualbox, wordpress

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Established workflows are the key to maintaining a sustainable development practice. When developers agree on how to work together, the workflow is sustainable, which ultimately makes our business more sustainable. Read More ›

03.18.2014

How to Streamline Bug Reports

Posted by Mightybytes in Software Development, Web Development tagged with website redesigns

When a newly redesigned website launches, stakeholders are likely to come across elements of the site that aren’t functioning correctly. In order to fix these bugs, as they're called, you’ll need to report them to a developer who can fix them. For a bug to get fixed expediently, it’s helpful to file your report in a way that a developer can easily understand, diagnose, and remedy the problem. Read More ›

09.03.2013

Optimizing Photos Within a Responsive Design

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Design, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with design, front end development, sustainable web design

In the next post in our Sustainable Web Design series, we look at ways to optimize images for better performance and increased sustainability, within responsive design. Read More ›

04.19.2013

How Error Pages and Redirects Make Your Website More Sustainable

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with search engine optimization, sustainability, sustainable web design

Make your content more findable by using customer friendly error page and appropriate redirects. It's an SEO best practice, that will also make your website greener. Read More ›

04.12.2013

What is PageSpeed and Why Does it Matter?

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Design, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with sustainability, sustainable web design, website performance

In this post, we take a look at Google PageSpeed and how it relates to customer satisfaction, energy use, and sustainable web design. Read More ›

04.08.2013

What Fast Food Drive-Throughs Can Teach Us About Making Fast Websites

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with css sprites, sustainability, sustainable web design, website performance

HTTP requests and fast food drive-throughs have a lot in common: learn how to avoid long queues and improve your website's performance. In an age of near-ubiquitous high-speed internet in developed countries, loading a website can seem like a trivial matter. But currently, 50 million computer servers contribute nearly 5% of the earth’s greenhouse gases. Improving your website's performance by reducing the number of HTTP requests made on a page is an important way of making your website more sustainable. This is an essential component of sustainable web design. Read More ›

04.05.2013

Minifying or Munging Code for Faster Website Page Speed

Posted by Tim Frick in Business Strategy, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with front end development, sustainability, sustainable web design, tips

Want to advance your sustainable web design goals? Minify its scripts. When it comes to building sustainable websites, optimizing performance is key. Simply put, the faster a web page downloads to your laptop or mobile device, the less energy it uses. There are dozens of techniques for speeding up website performance. In this post, we're going to talk about two of those techniques: minifying code and obfuscation, which works through a process called munging. Read More ›

03.27.2013

How CSS Sprites Improve Speed And Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with css sprites, sustainability, sustainable web design, tips

In this post on Sustainable Web Design, we explain what a CSS Sprite is, how it can help your pages load faster, and how that reduces your carbon footprint. Read More ›

01.31.2013