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Sustainable Web Design: Things you can do without asking your clients permission
Making the internet more sustainable is not always easy, and clients can be one of the reasons. In this article we will talk about things you can do to make a client website more sustainable without having to ask them permission first.
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Development
Revolutionize Your Web App: Reduce API Traffic with localStorage and Cookies
Web applications are often sending many API fetch requests in the background or when refreshing the page, and this can transfer lots of unnecessary data across the network. This method allows you to save data in localStorage and use cookies to set an expiration date.
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Development
The unsung hero: Work behind the curtains
The internet is the single biggest polluting machine in the world, and it is expected to grow even bigger in the future as more people join the internet experience. But can we reduce that impact? This article is about the unsung hero and how we professionals can make an impact that will touch millions of people.
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ClientAndProjects
The Circular Economy and Web Development: How Closed-Loop Systems Can Reduce Methane Emissions
Circular economy is gaining popularity as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. It's an economic system that focuses on reusing, repairing, and recycling resources to eliminate waste. This can be applied to various industries, including web development.
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Design
Accessibility and Sustainable Web Design
Accessibility in sustainable web design can be understood in two ways; one being the geographical reach and the other being the ability to navigate and use the website no matter what type of internet user you are. But why are they included in my book Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons?
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Development
The Role of Web Developers in Creating a Sustainable Future
It’s no secret that the world is currently facing a climate crisis. Now more than ever, it’s important that we take action to mitigate its effects. No role is too small when it comes to preserving the environment, and in this article, I talk about the role of web developers.
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Hosting
The carbon footprint of TOR (The Onion Router) network
The TOR (Onion Router Network) has been around for many years and it is an access door to the dark web. But do we know the carbon footprint and environmental impact of this network? This article is giving you an estimate to show just how big the dark web is.
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Development
Is low-code or no-code better for the environment?
Low-code and no-code have grown tremendously in popularity because it allows everyone to build websites with close to no previous experience. With low-code, you simply drag-and-drop coding blocks and functions, and with no-code, you visually build everything. But is it better for the environment? And does it have the potential for the future?
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Development
Are PWAs the future of Sustainable Web Development?
PWAs were already introduced by Steve Jobs back in 2007 as a way of creating much lighter app-like websites that would work and look the same as native apps. In this article, we discuss why progressive web applications are sustainable and why we should use them more often.
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Design
Sustainable web design reduces e-waste
One of the big problems we face today is the amount of e-waste we produce. The problem is getting bigger and we are still looking the other way while we pile on. We need to reduce our waste and the amount of materials we take from the earth. This is where sustainable web design can help.
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Development
Schedule server tasks for when the electrical grid is least congested
As we in Europe are seeing a rise in electrical cars and at the same time an energy crisis, it is important to spread out the use of electricity as much as we can. One way we can do that is by scheduling heavy server tasks to the least congested times during the day.
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Hosting
Can we use sustainable web design to host more websites on a single server?
We already know the benefits sustainable web design has on the general carbon emissions coming from our website. But can sustainable web design also help data centers host more websites using fewer servers?
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Design
Will web development & web design be replaced by AI?
Is web design or development a good industry to get into or will it only be a few years before we are all replaced by artificial intelligence? You are not alone if you have thought about this question, and here we will try to give you the answer.
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Development
Can you become a successful self-taught web designer?
I've seen many people question whether becoming a successful self-taught web developer is possible. There are also questions such as if you get paid less and will it be hard to achieve, and in this article, we try to answer as many of those as possible.
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Development
What is Svelte and what does it mean?
Are you wondering what Svelte means and why Rich Harris chose that name? Or maybe you are wondering what Svelte is? In this article, we will answer the questions you might have.
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Hosting
Cloudflare: What is it and why you should use it
Cloudflare has been around for many years now, but did you know that they are running on 100% renewable and are working together with The Green Web foundation? In this article, we explain what Cloudflare is and why you should use it.
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Development
Introduction to React useMemo and How To Use It
useMemo is an important hook for handling heavy repeating computations in React and in this tutorial you will get introduced to it and see when and how you can apply the hook.
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Development
Tutorial: Introduction to React useCallback
React comes with a lot of great hooks and useCallback is one of them. In this article, you will get introduced to the hook and see in which cases you can use it.
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Development
Sustainable web design makes the internet more accessible
We all know that sustainable web design is better for the environment and causes less pollution, but did you also know that it makes the internet more accessible? Between 40-50% of the world's mobile users still use 2G and 3G. In this article you can see how slow loading a website on these connections will be and why sustainable web design is important.
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Design
Why environmentally friendly practices should be common sense in web design
Environmentally friendly web design is today being advertised as a service, but we think it should be common practice. Here are the benefits of sustainable web design, what you should do, how you can check your website's carbon footprint and how to get started with sustainable web design.
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Design
How to measure your websites carbon footprint
Measuring your website's carbon footprint is key to creating a more eco-friendly website, and in this article, we will show you two of the most popular tools.
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Design
Ethical web development: Here you can learn more
Learning ethical web development is an eye-opening process that will make you realize all the unethical things you face every single day. To make the learning process easier and faster we have gathered some of the greatest books, courses, and YouTube videos so that you can get started right away.
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Design
The ethical principles in web development
We as developers and designers are responsible for creating a great experience and a safe environment for our users. In this article, you will get introduced to ethical web development and you will learn the principles we use.
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Hosting
How to set up Docker on a Raspberry Pi 4
With Docker, you can run multiple containers alongside without conflicting with each other and you can also run it on Raspberry Pi. If you are using your Raspberry Pi as a home server then running Docker will make managing servers easier. Here is a guide on how to install it on Raspberry Pi.
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Development
Here is why a Raspberry Pi is good as a web server
Raspberry Pi has been around for many years now, but they are starting to become quite powerful. Here we have made an article about why a Raspberry Pi is a great web server to host your website from and given you a pros and cons list so you can choose for yourself.
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ContentAndMarketing
Improve your SEO ranking by making your website environmentally-friendly
Having a sustainable and environmentally friendly website is not only better for the environment and the visitors but also for your overall organic SEO (Search engine optimization) ranking. In this article, we talk about improvements you can make to better your rankings on search engines such as Google.
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ContentAndMarketing
Have you considered what happens after your website content dies?
There are tons of outdated content roaming around on the internet just waiting for people to read and interact with it. But is anyone ever going to? Have you thought about when your content should be considered dead and be removed from the internet? If you haven't and you are curious, then here we are talking about why it is important to remove outdated content and how you can make your own plan.
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Development
Do you write clean and reusable code?
Reusable code is a powerful tool when creating sustainable and environmentally friendly websites. You can write it with every programming language and in this article, we will explain what reusable code is and how you can write it yourself.
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ContentAndMarketing
Has your team set a page-weight budget? Here is how to
When trying to make your or other people's websites sustainable or environmentally friendly it is a great idea to use a page-weight budget that allows your team to say "stop, no more content on this particular page". In this article, you can read about why a page-weight budget is good and how you can set one with yourself or your team.
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Hosting
Block unwanted and spammy bots with robots.txt and speed up your website
Unwanted and spammy bots are a problem many websites are fighting every day, but did you know that you can use your robots.txt to block unwanted bots? Spammy bots can cost lots of performance but in this article, we explain to you how to use your robots.txt to block unwanted traffic.