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We’ve worked with various content management systems (CMS) over the years but WordPress is our favourite. Thanks to its powerful user interface and open source architecture, it’s the most popular CMS on the planet. (In fact its market share is 10 times the size of its closest rival!) Whilst WordPress empowers millions of users to publish...

At Go Tripod, there are many ways in which we improve our working efficiency. We pick the best technologies, such as WordPress, React or Ruby on Rails. We pick the best services, such as Teamwork, Slack or Xero. But we spend our days sat in front of a computer and the way we interface with...

Software design is a complicated business. To illustrate this point, here is a user flow diagram from a previous project of ours. This level of detail is useful for a number of reasons; it gives the client a real feel for the end product before the need for any coding, it aids in the design...

In a previous article I talked about adding the defer attribute to script tags to avoid blocking page render. However, if you’re developing a WordPress theme, chances are you won’t simply be able to amend this HTML. Instead you’ll need to make use of the wp_enqueue_script function from within your theme’s functions.php file. This function...

One of the problems with being a small, independent software development agency is that we’re usually so busy on client projects that we don’t often get much time to devote to our own business needs. To this end our own website has languished as a glorified holding page for quite some time. But no longer!...

Timber has loads of useful filters built in which can make all kinds of jobs much easier. One of those jobs is resizing and cropping images, for which we can use the resize filter. The syntax is simple, as with all things Twig – we simply add the filter to our image source, passing through...

One of the first things I decided to tackle as part of my recent work on website response times, assuming it’d be a simple process, was render blocking web fonts. Little did I know I was opening up a right can of words (sorry)… Numerous techniques have been developed over the past few years with...

When working on improving the response time of your site, one of the simplest optimisations to make is the deferring of scripts. In most cases, this can be done with the simple addition of the defer attribute to the script tags within your HTML: When a browser gets to a script tag...

A warm welcome to our latest team member, Matthew Dixon! Matthew joins us as Lead Front-End Developer, and will be working to translate responsive designs into wonderful web experiences. His HTML5, CSS3 and WordPress experience will combine with our new hosting partner, WP Engine, to work with both new and existing customers!

This post was originally published on our Technical Director’s personal blog. Amazon’s cloud offering, AWS, provides a wealth of resources for developers and infrastructure engineers. In this article, I’ll show how Amazon Cognito can be used to record user preferences and data without having to set up a server or database. I’ll build a small...

In years past, Google was renowned for its 20% time – a developer was allowed to allocate one day a week to working on ideas that weren’t necessarily related to their normal Googley projects. Some of these ideas were even spun off into new properties for Google, and some were incorporated into existing internal and...

Colin’s started playing around with the new React Native from Facebook, a way of building native-speed applications for iOS using JavaScript. It’s a completely new approach and we’re really excited about it – follow Colin’s experiments over at his personal blog.

Ok, so we know access to business intelligence is crucial to all those involved in making a business successful. This applies not only to the CEO but all the way down to the telephone operators and order pickers. Everyone needs measureable data to understand how well (or not so well) they’re doing. At Go Tripod...

Development Gems (Geek Alert) During our Ruby On Rails development process at Go Tripod we’re always trying to streamline our workflow. We’ve tested plenty of gems supporting our everyday programming work. Some of them were interesting – but unfortunately not handy in real work, but we found a few to be really useful. For those...

Change is good, or so they say. In our case, we wanted to do some spring cleaning and strip back our website into something a bit more us. A bit more 2014. So here it is. We took a variety of new approaches when compared to our old site, and in this post I’m going...

You have probably heard about the SSL Heartbleed threat by now. In case you have not, here is a summary. What is SSL? SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol that websites use to encrypt and protect data between you and them. This happens in the background whenever you use, for example, online banking. So...

When your application’s out in the world, facing the rigours of daily use, there’s always a possibility that annoying little bugs could start to appear – or, worse, that something critical breaks in an unexpected way. That’s why we’re introducing GT Protect: a flexible support contract, giving you peace of mind that any surprise bugs...

As you can see, we’ve given the website a bit of a spruce up over the past few months. Hopefully, we’ve improved the usability of the site, and the updates will assure our customers (and prospective ones), as well as Google, that we are moving with the times and our content is fresh. Our updates...