Archive for March 25, 2015

What IS A Content Delivery Network, Exactly?

What Is A CDN?

I’m sure you’ve heard on at least one occasion that content delivery networks are awesome. They significantly improve the speed at which your website can deliver content. Not only does that make for a better user experience, there’s also mounting evidence that faster-loading pages tend to rank higher than those that load slowly (though not, perhaps, for the reasons that you might think).

Sounds like a pretty good deal across the board, no? Read more

How Content Management Systems Are Addressing The Mobile Era

How CMS Addressing Mobile Era

What do WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and pretty much every other market-leading content management system have in common?

Simply put, they’re having just a little bit of trouble adapting to the small screen. As smartphones and tablets become more and more ubiquitous, the need to design websites that can adapt to different screen sizes grows ever more pressing. A poorly-optimized site alienates mobile visitors – and given that as of last year, 60% of Internet access was done on mobile devices, that represents a huge chunk of your audience. Read more