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We've recently been extending our reach into the local area by approaching organisations that help connect businesses together. The first of these is Falmouth's Business Improvement Distract (BID), who help boost the town by investing in marketing, business support, events and a variety of improvement mechanisms. The second is Software Cornwall, who connect and support...

We recently posted about the font loading solution we use on our websites. Further to implementing this technique we noticed that, on this very site, some of the fonts weren't quite rendering correctly. Look at the examples below. The font rendering issues were slight but there was a definite problem with uneven character weighting in the Google...

As developers, we have a seemingly endless supply of tools at our disposal thanks to the hard work and generosity of the wider development community who, by and large, share their hard work in the hope of making their peers' lives that little bit easier. At Go Tripod we're always on the lookout for new...

Ten years ago, just before Go Tripod was formed, I was an independent contractor with a strong eye on my bottom line, so I created a way to track my income at-a-glance. This was extremely useful at the time, as it helped a young Colin make sure he had enough pennies at the end of...

An early temptation when setting up a development shop is to diversify: to provide logo design, SEO assistance, print work, marketing. The ability to sell yourself to clients as a one stop shop is compelling, with the idea being that you can capture more work and provide a better experience for customers. At Go Tripod,...

We're in the early days of planning out a web design-and-build project with a new client. A key part of this process is the creation of a site map. The Site Map In its simplest form, a site map is a pictorial representation of the pages required of a website. With smaller websites this list...

Back in February I wrote about a font-loading technique I'd implemented on a new project, but there was a problem with it - the script ran on every page load meaning the browser cache was never used to serve the fonts. There are many variations on the same theme with some using session cookies to...

Go Tripod is based at Tremough Innovation Centre in Penryn, Cornwall, but our team members work remotely from locations of their choosing. By giving our staff the freedom to create their own environment, they're able to work smarter and in the way they prefer. How do we make sure that everyone's on the same page,...