April 2022 - What We've Been Up To

Take a look at what our web development and digital marketing guys have been up to in April.

Wayne

Carnage in the living room, the start of bank holiday season and a few trips...

Work was a welcome distraction from home during April, where our living room has been upside down for two months due to building work. Bank holiday season has started and the year is progressing rapidly. A busy month in and out of the office saw me and the wife embark on a trip to Edinburgh to see Foals – just the two years late (due to that which shall not be mentioned), and the final weekend was spent in the Lakes, a great place to unwind for a couple of days.

Lake windermere with boats pushed up onto the shore

Back to work and we’ve been having serious discussions about developing business websites as single page applications (SPA) where possible, and are currently looking at the pros and cons to doing this, such as; can Google Analytics read an SPA in the same way it reads a normal website, are they scalable and will we have the same level of security. We strive to be towards the front of the pack in terms of using the latest technology and feel it’s about time we explored what we can do to make our websites stand out further from a speed and performance perspective, so watch this space…

You can read more about SPAs here.

In the mean time we are looking for new developers, designers and marketers to join our team. Please check out our Careers page for current opportunities.

Andrew

A brilliant month of learning on the job. Things are going great...toffee anyone?

My apprenticeship is now in full swing and I have been performing a lot of maintenance this month to keep everything up to date and functioning. The Mailchimp application I had developed in the previous month is now functioning and sending reward points emails to customers who have made a purchase in the last month.

My focus for April was rebuilding an old website (Johnson’s Toffees), allowing it to be updated to the newest PHP versions without causing issues. It is important that we get our websites to the latest versions as this maintains security and performance.

A website with a photo of fudge and chocolate. It was developed using open cart and features the latest PHP version

This project was my first time developing with OpenCart. I think this was a good opportunity for learning because I could use the old site for reference, but I also couldn’t just copy all the code over because much of it needed modernising. Additionally this was a great time to add new features requested by the client such as the “Hampers” category.

April 2022 – What We’ve Been Up To

Wayne

Andrew