To answer questions about performance, design, or even testing, I find myself repeating the same question, “What do your users do?” as a response. It seems intuitive, but many times we as web professionals need reminding that we are not creating the web for ourselves, but that we are doing it for our users.

Performance matters, knowing this I rebuilt my website to always load on the first packet response. Check out how I did it, from the code to server configuration and beyond.

The first blog post in this series talked about how to use the Mr. Poole Generator to create a custom Jekyll site. The generator packs in many features to create amazing blogs or static sites....

Jekyll has become one of the best static site generators, rising to popularity in no small part because of its use on GitHub Pages. It is incredibly simple and easy to begin making awesome static...