Website Sustainability

50 free web tools | Creative Bloq : "The web tools movement is as hot as ever and there are plenty of free, high-quality options available. Louis Lazaris runs down 50 useful finds." Five pages of tools HTML CSS & Sas s  JavaScript Design tools RWD & Mobile SVG and best of the rest To read more go to  50 free web tools | Creative Bloq 'via Blog this' All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way be seen as reflecting the views of any organisation the Author has any association with.

Optimizing for Accessibility + SEO: Site & Page Structure Overlaps - Moz : " Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 39 million people are blind. 285 million are visually impaired. 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — have some form of disability. Disabilities can come in many shapes and forms: physical, cognitive, visual, hearing. How does someone who is blind check their email? How does someone who can’t hear decipher any of the tens of millions of videos on YouTube? How do disabled students keep an upper hand when all of their classmates are using the Internet for research?" The report has some useful tips for accessibility and in particular design for people with visual disabilities including a useful tip on how to try, in Chrome, a screen reader and suggestion on using it as part of user experience (UX) testing. It goes on to make links with SEO and ends with a list of resources to take this further. To read more go to  Optimizing for Ac...

Google Developers Blog: The Mobile Web Is Open for Business : "One of the virtues of the web is its immense reach, providing access to information for all internet users regardless of device or platform. With the explosion of mobile devices, the web has had to evolve to deliver great experiences on the small screen. This journey began a few years ago, and I am excited to be able to say that the mobile web is open for business. Join me live at Google I/O at 2:00pm PT as I discuss the state of the union and how to take advantage of new experiences like AMP and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to deliver a best-in-class mobile experience." 'via Blog this'

May's 10 best new web design tools | Creative Bloq : "This month there are two UI flow galleries that will help you find the best way of doing things in your apps and websites, as well as a browser-based vector graphics tool and a number of other handy utilities." To read all of the article go to  May's 10 best new web design tools | Creative Bloq 'via Blog this' Posting on the site does not imply endorsement in any way, by the blog owner or any organisations the blog owner is associated with.

8 Old School SEO Practices That Are No Longer Effective - Whiteboard Friday - Moz : "some old school SEO practices that just don't work anymore and things with which we should replace them." The full article is here  8 Old School SEO Practices That Are No Longer Effective - Whiteboard Friday - Moz 'via Blog this' Posting on the site does not imply endorsement in any way, by the blog owner or any organisations the blog owner is associated with.

Battleground Mobile: Why (& How) to Prepare for the Future - Moz : "The world of mobile continues to explode. Major players like Google, Facebook, and Apple are investing massively in efforts to establish themselves as the dominant player in the new markets that are emerging as a result. These companies are betting in a big way on continuing changes in mobile usage and in user expectations for mobile devices, and that means you should be, too. It means you need to have a mobile-first mentality. The investments by these companies are happening at many different levels. For example, Google has already made mobile friendliness a ranking factor, and intends to increase the strength of that signal in May 2016. But there's much more to this story, so let's dig in! " 'via Blog this'  All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

I know I should have known about the W3C link checker:  https://validator.w3.org/checklink/docs/checklink#wait   but unfortunately I didn't, at that is a shame. It is great little tool and free for check for broken links. Example of it 'in action'  The results are shown in summary and in more detail Useful tool and automatic once you enter the URL and press check. The link to the tool is:  https://validator.w3.org/checklink/docs/checklink#wait