Blog posts under the development tips tag

Best Practices for WordPress Website Image Optimization

The most significant consideration for building or maintaining a website these days is speed. Ensuring that your site moves quickly and supports speeds down to mobile 3G is vital in providing the best possible user experience (UX) to the largest percentage of...

The Importance of QA and UAT

We all have pride. Whether that pride comes from our career or what we create outside of work, we all have a sense of pride in something. In web development, it is critical to balance personal pride in your work with taking constructive criticism about your creations. After dedicating...

Accessibility of Semantics: How Writing Semantic HTML Can Help Accessibility

Writing HTML is about more than simply “having stuff appear on the page.” Each element you use has a meaning and conveys information to your visitors, especially to those that use assistive technologies to help interpret that meaning for them. A majority...

Accessibility in Chrome DevTools

Oh, the internet is a wondrous place – full of avenues to connect people, regardless of geography, language, or hardware. Accessibility is so broad and the usership is so diverse. When building a WordPress theme, I encourage you to think about the...

Level Up With jQuery Dimensions

It’s hard to believe that I’m well into my second year of being a front-end dev here at WDS. It has been an awesome experience and I’m truly blessed to work with such a great group of people. Halfway through 2015, I officially...

The Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in Tasks

Everyday I spend time working on products for our great clients, I specifically spend a great deal of it writing code and building features. But I’m not just creating new features, I’m also creating new opportunities…opportunities to break that product. Here are the questions developers need...

Winning With Code Reviews

Here at WebDevStudios we put a lot of emphasis on code quality. After handing off a product to a client, we never know who may be looking at and/or maintaining our code. We want to be proud and confident that the next...

A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Bash & Shell Scripts

Optimizing your development workflow is one of the most important things a developer can do. Being able to leverage your tools quickly and efficiently lets you spend your time working on actual development–instead of fighting your tools or doing boring, repetitive things....

Helpful Books for Front-End Developers

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.” –Patti Smith There are many great pathways to glean new information out there, whether it be on the...