An excerpt of Javascript - part of any web developer’s toolbox

Web Development

It’s a broad field web development, it covers everything from the cleverer end of web-design (tweaking WordPress and colouring in WebFlow templates) to building mammoth network environments and vast NoSQL applications.

At Little Fire, we’re somewhere in the middle. Like many firms we used to write a lot from scratch. A more modern process involves leveraging existing frameworks and extending it with detailed skills.

Generally we find this approach gets the customer more of what they need for less. By extending larger 3rd part frameworks (like Shopify) we can take advantage of a rock-solid development and continuous platform development. Our contribution means the client can get exactly what they want.



Zone Manager - Delivering Site afety and Ecological Benefits

Zone Manager – New and Improved

Zone Manager – a software firm from Redditch – have been struggling to gain inquiries through their website despite spending significant money on SEO and web development in the past. They came to Little Fire Digital. About Zone Manager Zone Manager…

Loads of robots

Changing Robots.txt in WordPress

The robots.txt file is a simple text file used to guide search engine crawlers on which pages or directories they can and cannot access on a website. It is part of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) and is usually placed in the root directory…

Software Bloat

Software Bloat – A Problem for Our Times

Remember Windows Vista©? That was some major software bloat. An iteration after Windows 98® (which famously crashed during its launch event), Microsoft saw fit to flog the poor old horse one more time. I would get home from work, switch on…

How to …

Make all External Links Open in a New Window

A client asked us recently to ensure all the links on their site that link to other people’s sites (external links) open in a new window. We’ve been asked to do this several times before, so we thought we’d share…

jQuery - Write Less Do More

jQuery 4 is Coming – Be Ready

The beta has been out for some time but jQuery have announced that the landmark update to jQuery 4 is just around the corner. If your website uses jQuery (and there’s a strong chance it does), you want to get…

HTTPS - web security matters on both mobile, desktop and laptop devices

Understanding SSLs, TLS, HTTPS and Why It Matters

If, like us, you eat sleep breathe the Internet, you think everything is obvious. But we’ve come across several clients and potential clients in the last few weeks who glazed over when we mentioned SSLs and HTTPS. Normally, when this…

What Represents a Secure Password

What Makes a Secure Password?

There have been many, many posts about password strength – “What makes a secure password”. Some right, some wrong, some technical, some funny. But still, when we ran a quiz recently, almost everyone got this question wrong: Which of These…

December 2024

December 2024

It’s December 2024 … STREWTH! How did that happen?! Sometimes you get to the end of the year, and you worry you have achieved nothing … There is no doubt that this year has been tough. Personally, I wish I hadn’t…

Harrison Cameras

Harrison Cameras

Little Fire Digital, expert Sheffield Shopify and e-commerce developers, are delighted to announce the launch of the new Harrison Cameras website. Harrison Cameras, one of the largest photography retailers in the North was founded in 1970. In those fifty-plus years,…

Working with Little Fire Digital

A Perfect Development Project

What is a perfect web development project? We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this over the last few years. Thinking about it from the client’s perspective and ours. Little Fire do this all the time, it’s easy to…

So you need a Shopify developer?

Is Shopify Development Hard?

Shopify is a powerful and flexible e-commerce solution. It allows businesses to set up online stores quickly and efficiently. It’s easy to customise. With the new themes offered with Shopify 2, you might ask yourself do you need a Shopify…

Why is search expensive?

Why is Search Expensive?

“Why is Search Expensive?” “What do you mean? Google is free.” Google is, indeed, free to use. But we’re back down to the old adage: “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product” A quick search…