
Web Development & Operations262 articles
From pre-development planning to usability and post-launch optimization.


Websites peak on launch day: the trap in the all-at-once redesign budget

Cut the buttons, and only the inquiries disappear

How to answer when someone asks whether WordPress is safe to stay on
When rank tracking numbers go missing, suspect Google's link change

How to spot ads whose conversions rise while revenue stays flat

Websites for after-school day services: designing visit requests and staff recruitment separately

Websites for nursing care facilities | how to drive recruitment and care manager referrals

Tailwind was acquired — What you need to check is what's inside your dependencies

How to run website regression testing alongside Chrome's two-week release cycle

Migrating from Gatsby to Astro in 9 days — Revamps without rebuilding from scratch

4 roadblocks when switching website platforms — Verifying hosting and account ownership

Current Wix sites cannot be “upgraded” to Wix Studio — The fork in the road for migration decisions

Inquiry forms inundated with sales emails — Designing forms to keep only genuine leads

AI search doesn't pick the lowest price — when display slots shrink to one-seventh

Does lingering jQuery justify a complete rebuild?

A website peaks on launch day — The dividing line between rebuilding and continuous improvement

Who chose the companies recommended by AI? The 210,000-page "recommendation" mass-generation site

Before Asking for "A Bit More Motion": Web Animation Formats Dictate Costs

Are you adding “Back to Top” buttons out of habit?

Receiving “half-written” submissions in inquiry forms is caused by pressing Enter to confirm IME conversion

Websites peak on launch day: 3 things to decide beforehand to ensure continuous updates

Whose decision does that dashboard serve? Things to determine before building

Cannot type while viewing: Eliminating tab hopping in enterprise web apps

Waiting two minutes for a build every time an article is updated

Sites Where Fixing a Single Word Takes Two Weeks

WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL — Which Image Format Should You Ship in 2026?

Perfect Score on Automated Tools, Meaningless Alt Text — Discrepancies to Catch in Acceptance Testing

When animated diagrams are delivered as GIFs, fixing a single character requires placing a new order every time

Information rendered solely via JS is invisible to AI: Designing for lightweight crawlers

Targeting by class prefix: CSS adopts .prefix-*

Heading margins misalign with designs: The culprit is vertical font spacing

Active Nav State Disappears on Article Pages — Managing Current State Indicators in One Place

Highlighting Search Terms Without Rewriting HTML — The Custom Highlight API

Avoid Making Dark Mode Toggles a Three-Way Choice — Before a Single Requirement Line Snowballs

Migrating nameservers increased our JS: Tracking down tags nobody installed

Can verification codes in user registration be eliminated? — The boundary between EVP and form design

Old pages appearing despite updates — Fixing caches outside the origin

Year-over-year web analytics comparisons break — legacy ad blockers disappear from Chrome

76.7% of links break in 10 years — when to audit external site links
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