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WordPress Programmer Learns TYPO3

Embracing a new technology requires your mind to expand to encapsulate it but how many of us have the time to plough into a new technology just for the fun of learning it these days? Read on to learn from my journey from fuzzy, WordPress comfort zone and into the unknown abyss of TYPO3.

Choosing Brand Colours: Consistency vs digital first

How to choose consistent brand colours? Should we be aiming for consistency across print and screens or choosing colours that work best for each?

How to exclude internal traffic from Google Analytics using an IP address filter

For many organisations, the company website is used by staff on a daily basis as a go-to resource – which may well be exactly as you'd hoped – however, when it’s also the main marketing tool and a key measure of engagement with your desired audience, it becomes necessary to separate this internal traffic from visitor analytics so that the visitor data is not skewed. 

The technical challenges in building a data portal

We recently designed and built a data portal which collects disaggregated data from multiple sources from 40 countries for Leonard Cheshire and The Department for International Development. This data is presented on the portal in a series of visualizations across 16 development indicators, grouped into the four themes of inclusive education, economic empowerment, technology/innovation and stigma/discrimination.

Using a post-merge git hook to clean up old branches

When you've been working on a project for a while, you might find you have a few stale branches hanging around. At Liquid Light we have a git hook which tidies up after a merge

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Colour management for the web: Should I colour manage my Sketch files?

Now that Sketch supports colour management, should we be turning on colour management? A dive into colour management, profiles and what this means for the web

Usability testing: myths vs reality

Have you embraced usability testing and begun implementing it into your design process? If not, you may have heard some rumours and opinions that might be putting you off getting started.

Adding, moving, and deleting pages in TYPO3

In this short TYPO3 training video I show you how to add new pages to your TYPO3 website and how to move pages and delete them.

Using Vue.js with a Lumen powered API

Lumen is a mico-framework from the creators of Laravel. This blog post walks though how to integrate Vue.js with Vue router and use Lumen as an API for your app

Using column elements in TYPO3

Using column elements in TYPO3 is a great way to create interesting layouts for your website and the TYPO3 column element is easy to use and very flexible allowing all manner of different applications.

International Search: Optimising your website for Baidu

When I say name a ‘search engine’ what comes to mind? Google? Bing? Yahoo? Now why this might be the top three for a large percentage of countries in the world, this is not the case for many others. Take China for example, their number one search engine is Baidu with approximately 61.6% of the market - ever heard of it?