Your Website Suddenly Goes Viral, Now What?

Nexcess & WPSessions present WordSesh: a virtual conference for WordPress professionals.

In her Growing Traffic, Growing Problem: How to Prepare for a High Traffic Event session at WordSesh 2022, Tiffany Bridge discussed what happened when a rescue dog website went viral.

And drove an immense amount of traffic to the site, causing the site to crash.

On an unlimited hosting plan, the site owner Christine was recommended by her web host to upgrade to a more expensive hosting plan.

Continue reading Your Website Suddenly Goes Viral, Now What?

Inclusive Design 24: The Tipping Point, How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences

Inclusive Design 24 2019

In his The Tipping Point: How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences presentation at Inclusive Design 24 2019 this month, Henri Helvetica discussed the relationship between performance and inclusive design.

A designer who works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he explained how performance metrics like

  • Time To Interactive
  • Wait time anti-patterns
  • Resource management

impact inclusive design and how people are included. Continue reading Inclusive Design 24: The Tipping Point, How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences

Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition

UXMas Advent Calendar 2017

It’s December 1st and you know what that means. Today marks the first day of Advent calendars!

For the past five years, I’ve published a roundup of Advent calendars for web designers, developers, programmers, content strategists, user experience professionals, digital marketers, any person who works on and creates content for the web.

I’ve done my research in the past few weeks to uncover what I think are some fun and interesting Advent calendars for web professionals.

You’ll find some of my long-time favorites in the list: 24 ways, Performance Calendar, SysAdvent, UXMas, and several new ones. Continue reading Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition