The Monthly Download Is Back!
Design Clippy.js Via Smore To start off, here’s a fun piece of nostalgia that’s been making its way into all our office chats lately. Someone rebuilt him for the web. Nobody saw it coming, but we’re delighted to have him back!
Design
- Clippy.js
Via Smore
To start off, here’s a fun piece of nostalgia that’s been making its way into all our office chats lately. Someone rebuilt him for the web. Nobody saw it coming, but we’re delighted to have him back! - SVGator
We’ve been trying out this tool as a simpler alternative to more robust options like After Effects. We are exploring using it to create more complex prototype animations that aren’t currently available in Figma, and we may also use it to create animated assets for dev. Our thoughts so far? It’s pretty powerful for what it is. After Effects might be better for animation in general, but the fact that we can quickly and easily make an animation and export it as CSS makes using it kind of a no brainer.
Development
- Next.js 11
Some great new additions to Next to look forward to. - Consistency via Gatsby’s Themes
Via NOVVUM
We’re constantly evaluating what others are doing in the Gatsby space – and with more and more performance marketing-based landing pages in development, always looking towards how we can create reliable, reusable systems. - Reasons why Django is the best web framework
Via DEV
We agree. Django is a clean, pragmatic approach for database builds. It’s fast, secure, and scalable. - Gherkin Reference
Via Cucumber
This is something we’re looking at implementing for application buildouts in the future. Future application development planning. - React Hook Form
Forms suck. We’re moving towards standardizing as much of our form work as humanly possible in an effort to keep reliability, readability, and security at the top of our minds.
Content
- Google Showing “Reliable Sources” Prompt on Trending Searches
Via Search Engine Land
When Google starts to specify who is reliable and who is not, how do you ensure you are differentiating yourself?
SEO
- Shopify SEO Guide
Via Search Engine Land
This is pretty relevant to our service lines, and includes some great tips and tricks. - Google Page Experience Update and Google June 2021 Core Update Rolling Out
Via Search Engine Land
Key Page Experience Updates rolling out. More from us on this coming soon! - 19 Advanced SEO Techniques to Double Your Search Traffic
Via Neil Patel
Here’s some wisdom on how to make your work more complete, advanced, and manage your SEO campaigns beyond the standard set of best practices.
Security
- How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?
Via KrebsonSecurity
A large percentage of municipal water systems haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems, and are likely super vulnerable to attacks. Yikes. - A Growing need for better email security
Via Cision PR Newswire
With the rise of phishing attacks, this has never been more important.
Around the Tecno-Sphere
- Competitive Analysis
Via Crunchbase
This is something that people might be aware of, but aren’t necessarily doing as thoroughly as they should. This helps in a number of ways including understanding your competitor’s strengths as well as their weaknesses. Additionally, it can help to potentially inspire ways to expand one’s business with new products or services.