Adobe Flash Player played a pivotal role in the adoption of video, gaming and animation on the Web. Today, sites typically use technologies like HTML5, giving you improved security, reduced power consumption and faster page load times. Going forward, Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5. Here’s what that means for you.
Sarah recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. She shares a few ways to decrease the SVG size to enhance performance.
After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables still collect and organize much of the information we interact with on a day-to-day basis.
Bootstrap has become a very popular tool in front-end projects over the years, and it can have huge benefits. However, if your team has a front-end developer on board, I would argue you may be better off without Bootstrap. In some instances, it can do more harm than good.
This step-by-step tutorial walks through the process of deploying a Node.js app to a DigitalOcean droplet with free SSL from Let's Encrypt for $5/month.