This week we'll be looking Gulp, build processes, and how to get started and improve your build processes on a Craft CMS website. We'll start with the basics–for those who are new to build scripts or using Codekit–and then take things to the next level looking at a more advanced setup and additional areas to configure for a powerful Gulp workflow on your Craft CMS site and beyond. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
The performance of your website has an impact on your search results, sales, and the happiness of your users. Today we will be doing a performance review of Straight Up Craft and exploring everything we can find to optimize and the tools available to optimize your own sites. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
Do you write clean, optimized code and aspire to best practices? Whether you're actively developing Craft plugins or just getting started, in this Code Review we'll demo real Craft plugin code that's out in the wild and discuss what we can learn from it and how to make it better. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
Do you write clean, optimized code and aspire to best practices? Whether you're actively developing Craft plugins or just getting started, in this Code Review we'll demo real Craft plugin code that's out in the wild and discuss what we can learn from it and how to make it better. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
What can you do to ensure your Craft install is as secure as possible? What has Craft done? What do plugin developers do? In this hangout will discuss security in Craft and various considerations to keep in mind for managing a secure website. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
What's in a name? That which we call a null-coalescing operator by any other name would smell as sweet. Explore when and how to use the null-coalescing operator; simplify conditionals in your templates. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
Improve the performance of your website and optimize your element database queries using eager-loading and the `with` parameter. Eager-loading elements gives you the ability to tell Craft which sub-elements you need up front so Craft can fetch them in advance and you and your clients can smile at the end of each page load. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
Interested in optimizing your website? Let's take a closer look at our mysterious friend the {% cache %} tag. The {% cache %} tag is quite talented, but can be hard to get to know. We'll take a look at what's happening when we use the {% cache %} tag, explore some of the settings, and discuss alternatives to the {% cache %} tag when it comes to keeping zippy. Read More »
Barrel Strength Design
This article will discuss responsive image markup and twig macros to automate generating that markup. Read More »
Marion Newlevant
Setting up Fastly to work with Craft takes some time the first go-round, but the performance difference is more than worth the trouble. Layer Tennis went from an average HTML load time of 2.1 seconds without caching to less than 120 milliseconds. That's a reduction of 1,750%... Chris Maven
