Keeping web development projects on schedule is a challenge. Why? Let’s start with the reasons why website development projects get off schedule in the first place. Why do web development projects get off schedule? Scope Creep – After the project starts, the client adds to the scope of the project, making it impossible to finish […]
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is supported by WordPress. The project helps to make mobile pages load much faster. We found this recent article and wanted to share it with you. WordPress sites now support Google Accelerated Mobile Pages to make mobile page load much faster “Google has some big plans when it comes to […]
Why is quality website development important? We try to bring quality website development to every project we build here at Berkshire Direct, but quality is a trade-off for some clients – as crazy as that sounds. There are some folks who still think a website is barely a necessary evil for their business. We found […]
The future of WordPress is a popular topic. A new year brings about new trends and new predictions. Here are the 2016 WordPress predictions from WhatArmy: WhatArmy’s 2016 WordPress Predictions “WordPress continues to grow – in community and technology improvements. In fact, according to 2015’s State of the Word address by WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg, WordPress “now […]
We found this article on The Huffington Post about mobile friendly website development. We think you’ll find it interesting. The Long and Short of Mobile Friendly Website Development “Let’s begin by stating the old hard fact that any website administrator and owner needs to acknowledge and live with — your website needs to rock on […]
WordPress developers got an early Christmas present on December 10, 2015. WordPress developers excited by new features “The WordPress 4.4 release includes a number of features that provide improved extensibility for content. Images are also getting more responsive. The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system (CMS) is being updated to version 4.4, code-named Clifford. […]
Earlier today I wrote a post on LinkedIn called, “When Website Development Projects Linger.” The fact of the matter is that when a project takes longer than it should, the fault lies with a bad process, not with the participants in the process. As web developers, our projects use our processes, so it’s up to […]
Football club A.S. Roma crowdsourced website improvement ideas on Reddit. How to find website improvement ideas? “Last week, football club A.S. Roma did what’s probably the most 21st century thing ever—they crowdsourced ideas for redesigning their website on Reddit. Paul Rogers, who works on the media side for Roma, realized that they needed an overhaul when the […]
As an agency which acts as both a web designer and a web developer, we are big fans of companies who elect to outsource this work to people like us. Web Developer: Why Buy When You Can Rent? The article makes some great points about the downside of hiring a full-time website developer to be […]
For designers and developers, it doesn’t get much better than Font-Awesome. Billed as “the iconic font and CSS toolkit”, this collection of easily usable icons make adding icons to today’s popular flat designs simple. Why do we love Font-Awesome? Here are the primary Font-Awesome features and benefits as we see them: One font, 585 icons […]
