It’s always been the case that a fast-loading homepage is important – nobody likes to wait an age for content to load. First impressions count too. If you’re waiting more…
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Today we ran a five hour sitemapping and website project planning session for the Weald & Downland Living Museum, a local outdoor museum that has commissioned us for a large…
BERT is Google’s acronym for its new natural processing language (NLP) model. It stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and in short this is what helps Google improve its…
Here at Maroon Balloon we naturally keep a close eye on web technology developments so that we can continue to provide a high quality and future-proofed website design service. At…
Over the last year we’ve been following WordPress’s exciting news about its new editing interface, Gutenberg*. It’s a major change in the world of WordPress. When you update WordPress core…
As 2017 draws to a close we reflect on what’s been another fun and productive year here at Maroon Balloon and look towards 2018 and what that might bring. Before…
In a word, yes! Website speed is very important. Let’s break this down into reasons why a slow website is bad news for you and your readers: People are impatient…
We’ve all come across the dreaded “404 Error – Page Not Found” message on a web page. You're happily surfing away, then suddenly you get this. Pretty uninspiring and not particularly...
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Aside from a talent for problem-solving and an ever-growing toolbox of technical skills, an effective web developer needs to keep an eye on usability. Usability makes or breaks a website or…