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How green is the internet - A Forest

How Green is the Internet? An Uncomfortable Truth

How green is the internet? You may not like the answer. Here’s a presentation we made a few months ago. There’s good news and bad news. It started as a question – I’ve got a presentation to make and no…

An update for Jagged Globe - K2 at sunset

A Major Website Update for Jagged Globe

When is a new website not a new website? We’re not entirely sure, but the latest website update for Jagged Globe is so wide-ranging that it almost feels like a ground-up rebuild. Proudly different, the Jagged Globe website is pretty…

Man in the middle attack

Man in the Middle – What Does it Mean & Why is it Bad?

The Man in the Middle (MITM) attack is one of the most common and dangerous methods used by hackers to steal sensitive information. Despite its simplicity, this attack can have serious consequences for individuals and businesses alike, particularly if confidential…

Version control

What is Version Control? A User-Friendly Guide

What is Version Control? You may have heard your developers talking about it. It’s powerful stuff and a technical-sounding term, but the ideas are simple. Here’s a quick guide to what it is and why it’s so useful. As the…

Hattons Model Railways Case Study

Hattons & Rails of Sheffield – Case Study

Hattons Model Railways were, until recently, one of the biggest online hobbies retailers in the UK. Earlier this year, they made the difficult decision to cease trading. Hattons had loyal customers and invested significant time and money in building online…

Mobile friendly designs

Creating a Mobile Friendly Website: How to Get Started

Creating a mobile friendly website has never been more important. It is not easy, there are many steps to getting it right. More users are accessing the internet via mobile devices than ever before, so it is crucial that your…

htaccess – the swiss army knife of files

Caching via .htaccess for a Faster Website

At Little Fire, we like to talk about site-speed. Caching is a critical strategy to improve website performance, reducing server load and improving user experience. Caching stores copies oft-needed files for rapid deployment and reduces the time needed to generate…

Core Web Vitals

What are Core Web Vitals?

Core Web Vitals are a set of specific factors that Google considers important in a webpage’s overall user experience. They are part of Google’s Web Vitals initiative, which aims to provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to…

A sample of CSS code

CSS or SASS … Which is Better?

I’m not going to deny it, I’m a bit of a SASS refusenik. Although SASS has established itself as a popular technology – simple to to understand and powerful when deployed well. But I’ve seen it built badly before and…

Ever more generic, websites look every more similar

Why Do So Many Websites Look the Same?

We’ve noticed it. You may have noticed it. Social media has certainly noticed it. These days, many, many websites look the same … This is not just an opinion; studies of over 1,000 of the most successful websites confirm that…