Skeuomorphism: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I don’t like it. Today, at least, I don’t. iOs26 and its new liquid class interface – it seems to ooze 2012 skeuomorphism. I don’t care much, I’ll forget what the…
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Is Your Best Friend a Nonce?
It’s not a nice word, “nonce”. In the UK, at least, it’s a slang term for something pretty shameful. By contrast, this post’s title is shameless clickbait. But, since you’re…
Write a Blog Post That Ranks Well: 7 Beginners’ Tips
Your website needs content. Got good knowledge? The world needs to hear it. Writing a blog post is a great way to build trust. Writing a blog post that ranks…
Check Your Privacy Policy (and how to get one without tears)
You’d be surprised. We were. Three times in the last two weeks, we’ve seen sites with no Privacy Policy. All sites built for a lot more than Little Fire would…
llms.txt – 7 Good Reasons to Get Familiar With It
llms.txt – What is it? Why do we need it? Well … You might have missed it but, the Large Language Models (LLMs) have landed: Google AI Search, ChatGPT, Claude,…
Help Protect Your Content – 2 Steps to Keep LLMs Out With Robots.txt
Not everyone wants their words gobbled up and regurgitated by AI. Are the LLMs nicking your work? Protect your content with robots.txt. It happened to us, we were reading the…
Structured Data – What Is It? Why You Need It
Structured data, why do you need it? Well, it’s upon us – the race to find and keep website traffic. After over a decade, when the only real route to…
Easy Product Image Cutouts in Photoshop
We’ve done a lot of product image cutouts over the years. Cutting out a product image in Photoshop is a key skill. The tools have improved and AI will catch…
Don’t Lose Out! 5 Tips to Save Your Website Traffic
Your website traffic is under threat. AI is developing at an extraordinary pace and, while debates as to the quality of the output rumble on, the early effects of AI…
999 – An Urgent Website Rescue
A few weeks back, we were contacted by a new potential client, good stuff we thought. Our new contact was, like many, disappointed with his e-commerce website … it wasn’t old,…
WordPress Again? Can’t We Do Better?
WordPress is everywhere. About 43% of the world’s websites use it, if you only include content-managed websites (CMS), that figure rises to a massive 62.7%. For one million websites (the…
Status Codes – 63 Essential Numbers
We were trying to get to Shopify’s Summer Editions to review them and tell you all about them, sadly the scrolling kept breaking and we were met with a 500…