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WordPress 6.0 Lives Up To The Hype

WordPress 6.0 has been released, and another niche jazz musician will be enjoying extra Spotify royalties next month. WordPress 6, named for Latin-jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, is the realisation of a change of direction the WordPress Foundation adopted several years ago. All versions of WordPress now power around 42% of the web. That’s approximately 810,000,000 …

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Responsible JavaScript

High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a negative impact on the web, but now we have the canonical reference tome.   The book is just chock-full of Jeremy framing some of the …

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Facebook Goes All Meta

It’s almost Halloween, so we were all expecting the odd scare, but little could have prepared us for the blood-chilling horror of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ‘acting’ amazed in front of a green-screened mock-up of The Metaverse, during his keynote at the company’s Connect event. Zuckerberg — or The Zuckster, as I imagine he introduces …

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5 Tips for Designing Great Website Navigations

Navigation is one of the most essential elements of a website.  It provides a high-level overview of what visitors will find there (which also happens to be good for SEO). It helps visitors orient themselves so they can get around the site quickly. Plus, it enables them to take quick action like visiting their cart …

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Create Your Own Automated Social Images With Resoc

There has been a lot of talk about automated social images lately. GitHub has created its own. A WordPress plugin has been acquired by Jetpack. There is definitely interest! People like Ryan Filler and Zach Leatherman have implemented social images on their websites. They had to code a lot of things on their own. But …

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8 Reasons Your Site Is Slow + How To Fix Them 2024

1, 2, 3 – That’s exactly how long it takes you to start losing visitors if you have a slow-loading website. Hold on! Surely, the only thing that matters to users is that your website works flawlessly and looks great… right? Wrong! The fact of the matter is that we’ve all become accustomed to instant …

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research 2024

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behaviour. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. You most likely think that the buttons might be too ...

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How To Leverage Social Proof Successfully this 2024

Customer reviews are incredibly valuable to your company. Around 95% of customers say they read reviews before they make a purchase. Another 72% say that they won’t even consider buying your items until they’ve read the reviews associated with your business or product. No matter how good your marketing and promotion strategies might be, your …

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