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Creating a technology strategy for your small to medium enterprise (SME) is crucial for staying competitive and driving sustained and successful growth. As we embark on a new year, here are some top tips to help you get started in 2025: 1. Understand Your Business Goals Align your technology strategy with your overall business objectives....

Every business needs a strong online presence. It’s not an option – it’s essential. Your website serves as the cornerstone of your digital identity and, for many businesses, WordPress is the platform of choice. With its flexibility, scalability and user-friendly interface, WordPress powers over 40% of the websites globally. And with the right expertise, a...

Your website is your online shop window to the world and often the first point of contact between your business and potential customers. But it’s more than just a digital storefront; it’s a reflection of your brand, your values, and your services. It’s no secret that there are numerous website builders and templates available, but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...