This is probably one of those edge-case situations that only arise with certain server configurations. In this case I don’t control the server or have much power to get the configuration changed. This causes umpteen issues when working with students but such is life and it’s probably a good learning experience as we get to […]

After yesterday’s post on Speeding up your website I decided why not see what we can do on a customer site. So I ended up taking a look at a few sites I’m the webmaster for (Yep I just said webmaster I’m old school). The Town Hall Theatre Galway struck me as a good example. […]

I’m slightly obsessed with website speed. Taking a website from a sluggish unresponsive mess to a fast and optimised site gives me a lot of joy. I guess it’s a bit like a puzzle. Find bottlenecks. Figure out what you can tweak then change, test, and repeat. Dropping from a couple of seconds down to […]

Last week for the second year running saw me hosting a two day workshop on WordPress at L’école de design, Nantes. Roughly three years ago I needed to put together my CV and a quick portfolio for said work at the school so I launched my website. It was built with a rather basic HTML […]