Web Development
Web development articles for frontend, APIs, performance, responsive design, Core Web Vitals, developer tools, and production-ready workflows.
Articles in Web Development
- How to Build a Website: Domain, Hosting, and CMS Selection
Learn how to build a modern website from scratch, including domain registration, hosting selection, and choosing the right CMS for your needs.
- WordPress vs Custom Development: Choosing the Right Approach
Compare WordPress and custom web development to find the best solution for your project based on budget, scalability, and long-term goals.
- PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals: Optimization Techniques for Faster Sites
Master Google Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed optimization with actionable techniques to make your website faster and rank higher in search results.
- SSL Certificates: How They Work, Types, and SEO Impact
Learn what SSL certificates are, how they protect your website visitors, and why Google prioritizes HTTPS sites in search rankings.
- UI vs UX Design: What Each Covers and How They Work Together
Understand the fundamental differences between UI and UX design, how they complement each other, and why successful websites need both disciplines.
- Responsive Design: How to Build Sites That Work on Every Screen Size
Discover why responsive web design is essential for reaching mobile users, improving SEO, and providing a seamless experience across all devices.
- Free Code Editors Compared: VS Code, Sublime Text, Vim, and Notepad++
Compare the best free code editors including VS Code, Sublime Text, Atom, and Vim to find the perfect tool for your development workflow.
- Website Security: Protecting Against SQL Injection, XSS, DDoS, and Brute Force
Learn essential cybersecurity measures to protect your website from common attacks including SQL injection, XSS, DDoS, and brute force attempts.
- Cloud Computing for Small Businesses: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Explained
Understand cloud computing fundamentals, service models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and discover how small businesses can leverage the cloud for growth.
- AI in Web Development: Code Generation, Testing, and Personalization
Explore how AI tools are transforming web development, from code generation and testing to design automation and personalized user experiences.
- HTTP 429 Is Not a Traffic Problem: How a Rate Limit Silently Broke Our Search Traffic
HTTP 429 means "too many requests". Most teams treat it as a polite way to slow down scrapers. That is a mistake. Google treats a 429 the same way it treats a 5xx server error, and it will drop pages from Search Console reporting under "Server error (5xx)" without telling you the real status code.
- LCP in a React SPA: Why Preloading the Image Fixed Nothing
Our largest contentful paint was a 15 KB image. It loaded from the CDN edge in under 300 ms, cached, compressed, correctly sized. Lighthouse still reported 3.7 seconds. If you run a single-page application, the LCP number measures your JavaScript boot time, not your image delivery, and optimizing th
- OG Tag Previewer Fields Guide: Five Inputs, Two Limits, One Silent Failure
We audited our OG tag previewer field by field before documenting it, because the tool makes choices a user cannot see. It always appends an og:type line to the copied tags. It drops the preview image without a warning when the URL fails to load. It clamps text by line count, and the counts differ p
- URL Encoding Percent Guide: Both JavaScript Functions, Verified Side by Side
A link breaks because one space or one ampersand in a query value was sent raw. You reach for an encoder, discover two JavaScript functions with similar names, and now the bug depends on which one you picked. We ran both functions on the same inputs and documented where their outputs diverge and whe
- HTML Entity Escaping Rules: Five Characters, One Order, and a Table Bug We Found
Escaping HTML is a small ruleset done in a fixed order, and most breakage comes from changing the order or escaping too much. We read the exact replacements in our own encoder and tested the decode path. The rules fit in one page, and one defect in our reference table proves why you should verify ta
- Code Minifier: What It Removes, What It Keeps, and What It Can Break
Minification is deletion under constraints, and the constraints are where the damage happens. We ran the exact minifier functions from our component on fixed samples and hostile edge cases, and we measured every number in the stats bar. Here is what the tool deletes, what it protects, and the four i
- CSS Gradient Syntax Anatomy: What Every Token in the Output Controls
A generated gradient looks like one opaque string that you paste and hope for the best. It is really three token groups, and each group maps to one control in our CSS gradient generator. Break the string into those groups and you can edit any gradient by hand when the visual editor is not open.
