Category: Development

Making the leap: how to work with a designer

Recently I had the ultimate pleasure of chatting with Savannah Peterson at Kiwi Landing Pad‘s NZSMJ event in Queenstown, and among all the other wonderful insight she and fellow speakers brought up during the day, was this thought: how does one even work with a Designer? What’s the process, what are the requirements? Of course, Read more…

The Freaky-Deaky World of Optimisation

Here’s a word that pops up everywhere and seems important. In fact, it is critical– and here’s why. To cut straight to the chase: optimisation is the difference between a great web experience for your users, and pure nightmare fuel. Either way, people will remember their browsing experience, either great or otherwise. To optimise a Read more…

To Theme or not to Theme

If you’re a veteran of the website ownership world, or if you’ve been doing a little homework before jumping in, you would have heard the term ‘theme’ an awful lot. For the uninitiated, a theme is simply the icing over your website’s basic functionality; many themes these days have an awful lot of functionality in Read more…

Pandering to the lowest common denominator?

Speaking of fine lines, here’s an age-old question that refuses to die. To what lengths does one go to support deprecated software? My previous role was the ultimate sandbox; we worked specifically with iPads to produce web apps, and this afforded us the security of knowing exactly what we were working with. iOS changes aside, Read more…