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Static Site Generators might just be my JAM(stack)
An introduction into JAMStack on the Cargo website, ready for a following mini-series.
Welcome to the blog and CV of Richard Walker, a front end developer working at Cargo.
Welcome to the blog and CV of Richard Walker, a front end developer working at Cargo.
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An introduction into JAMStack on the Cargo website, ready for a following mini-series.
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A really interesting, short article about The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox – what it can be like trying to design for the minority and potentially alienating the majority.
It’s not just the article that’s interesting, the comments cover a wide range of views worthy of a read.
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A little post about how deep the rabbit hole can go for Web Accessibility.
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A really useful tip when it comes to positioning in CSS Grids.
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If you’re looking for some business cards, Trade Print Solutions is the place to go!
16th March 2017
A question that’s been requiring more and more brain space over the last few weeks.
If one or two isn’t enough, where should it stop?
15th February 2017
I know site speed is important, like, really important, so I thought I best dive a little further into achieving the ideal time-to-first-byte and aiming for 100/100 on Page Speed Insights. My conclusion is a mathematical one.
Website Optimisation = Head + Brick Wall - Blood.
10th February 2017
As part of this year's resolutions, I told myself I would exercise more and get through a few books. I've made SOME progress with half of my goals.
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The title says it all! Want to know a little about CSS animation or see how we did some of the animations on the Cargo website? This is the post for you.
11th January 2017
Every year I promise my professional self that "this year is going to be different" and "I'm going to organise myself more than I ever have".
Spoiler. It never is and I never do.
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A great read on disabling the ability to paste passwords into forms.
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A nice article over on A List Apart about structuring your markup and CSS in a more meaningful, and less arbitrary, way.
6th April 2016
I watch quite a bit of TV but I'm no critic. Let's get that out of the way first.
With the end of The Walking Dead season 6 taking some stick from the vocal majority online, I have put my thoughts down to be floated out into the sea of opinions.
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A post over on the Cargo blog about running a Headless CMS.
17th February 2016
I've been working with WordPress for a long time now, and have developed a pretty solid workflow to get a local database onto a dev environment and then over to live.
Listening to shows like ShopTalkShow has shown me how other people might approach the tasks of database management and specifically over to the plugin WP DB Migrate Pro.
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A little update about Microsoft’s latest IE support changes over on the Cargo blog.
28th January 2016
When I started building websites all those years ago, I tried my hardest to ensure my production code was fully validated using online services such as HTML5 validator and CSS Validator.
Meticulously running my code through the validator made it seem like I was doing a better job when I finally got the green tick and launched the site.
It’s been a long time since I last got that green tick.
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A post over on the Cargo blog about my initial look into PostCSS and how it could be integrated into our workflow.