3 different ways to progressively enhance your website
August 2022
The world of the web has changed a ton over the past decade. Websites that show one page at a time with no animations or interactions can feel stale and outdated.
Website Effectiveness Engineering: Progressive Enhancements
Here's an introduction to Progressive Enhancements:
Progressive Enhancements: Manage data
Websites can do more than "just" present information. Do you have some sort of data management task that involves a lot of manual work?
Progressive Enhancements: Improve data entry and user interactions
Websites can do far more than just present information. Many business applications have moved onto the web, and with a CMS like Drupal in the back end, your website itself can be an integral part of your business.
Leaving Google Calendar, going to NextCloud Calendars
After 15+ years, Google cut off our "forever free" business account yesterday.
Expressing complex systems of information
It's great to boil down information into simple bite-sized chunks. But for so many kinds of information, it's just not that simple. Ecological systems. Policy decisions. Your body. Your website.
Progressive Enhancements with VueJS and Drupal
In April I gave a talk about Progressive Enhancements at the national DrupalCon 2022 conference in Portland. Here's a recording of the full session, which was targeted towards Drupal developers.
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You don't need to replace your website to make it more effective. Creating an entirely new website might not work, either -- unless you consider all the areas that affect how effective your website is.
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- Learn how to make your site more effective
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- Hire us to make changes to your Drupal or WordPress site
We've organized our knowledge around what makes a website effective into 6 key areas -- 3 positive, 3 negative. And we regularly write about owning your own site instead of renting from a "Software as a Service". Learn more here, or reach out for assistance!
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