Posts by Daniel Ran
Client satisfaction as a service
In a lot of ways, client satisfaction can be seen as a service in and of itself. It won’t be noticed by the end users of the product, be it a website or a marketing campaign, but making the client happy isn’t something that happens on its own. You have to work on it. It…
Read MoreOpen source and the going rate of igloos
Let’s say there’s a village. An eskimo village. Because of its size, it has two aspiring igloo construction companies, both run by blokes in their late twenties. Let’s call them West Igloos and East Igloos, respectively. Now, for the longest time, the going rate of an igloo has remained the same and both companies have…
Read MoreA conversation about colours
An early memory I have in my career as a designer is that of a client asking me to use gold in their branding because said colour evoked wisdom. I entertained the notion for a moment and thought of famous brands which use some variant of yellow in their logo. McDonald’s and IMDb came to…
Read MoreA beginner’s guide to making images web-ready
This is a step-by-step guide for beginners on choosing the right image and cropping and resizing it to be used on the web. It requires that you own Photoshop and have some basic understanding of how it works. Usually, this is where I’d waffle on a bit more about cursory topics and say something funny, but…
Read MoreWordPress security essentials
The more you work with WordPress, the more you learn about how people try to crack and abuse it. It’s sad that some people will always try to spoil our fun, and it tarnishes an otherwise great platform. That said, once something becomes so popular, it’s entirely expected that a lot of attention will be devoted to compromising…
Read MorePairing WordPress with Amazon’s CloudFront CDN
Like everybody else on the planet, I’m very fond of stuff that just works. Many web developers, myself included, operate on the assumption that something will always break, and that makes it all the sweeter when it doesn’t. With the 2014 version of our company website, we decided to implement Amazon’s CloudFront CDN for all…
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