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Your Goal: The 90th Percentile

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Green Light

Google has set a benchmark PageSpeed score of 90 — meaning that it’s faster than 90 percent of all sites on the internet — to get a “green light.”

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Optimizing WordPress for Core Web Vitals

Speed Matters

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Speed Matters

In 2020, Google announced that their Core Web Vitals measurements, which approximate how quickly a page loads on a mobile device, will become an essential feature of their ranking algorithm.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Optimizing WordPress for Core Web Vitals

Why We Love Slack

Gavin Graham, Product DirectorBy Gavin Graham, Product Director

As a remote-only company, Howard Development & Consulting has worked with many different collaboration tools. And in our experience, the one tool that’s used more widely than any other is Slack.

By Gavin Graham, Product Director Filed Under: Articles

Everyone deserves a piece of the profit

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

If there’s one thing owners, employees and contractors agree on, it’s that it is always nice to have some skin in the game, especially when business is thriving. A successful profit-sharing program inspires and motivates your employees. It allows you, as the owner, to give back to your team. It even makes for a great […]

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles

How we built our equal-pay system

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Earlier this year, I transitioned my company to an equal-pay policy. Among our seven software developers, everyone is compensated in an identical way, and those numbers and formulas are public to the whole team. It almost goes without saying that equal pay and financial transparency are good things—they’re critical to closing the wage gap as […]

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles

Optimizing WP for Core Web Vitals

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Learn how to get ahead of your competition by optimizing your WordPress site for Google’s Core Web Vitals, the latest update to their rankings — coming in 2021.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured, Optimizing WordPress for Core Web Vitals

Building Long-Term Relationships as a Core Strategy

Gavin Graham, Product DirectorBy Gavin Graham, Product Director

Rob was a recent guest on Susan Boles’ Break the Ceiling podcast to discuss long-term relationships and how he orients his business to build them.

By Gavin Graham, Product Director Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Retrofitting ExpressionEngine 1 and 2 for PHP 7

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Code-on-a-Screen Madness

ExpressionEngine 1.x and 2.x are really solid, but they definitely do not work on PHP 7. Because I went through this process a couple times, I’ve now documented it to help you solve the same problem on your legacy sites.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles

Why We Love Trello

Gavin Graham, Product DirectorBy Gavin Graham, Product Director

Trello

Trello is a web-based Kanban-style list-making app that’s used by teams to organize their projects, especially when using Scrum (like we do).

By Gavin Graham, Product Director Filed Under: Articles, Featured

Top Three Ways to Retain a Great Web Developer

Rob Howard, Founder & CEOBy Rob Howard, Founder & CEO

Working from Home

It can cost your business up to four months of a new employee’s salary to recruit and train them. Instead, learn the three best ways to keep the great web development talent that you already have.

By Rob Howard, Founder & CEO Filed Under: Articles, Featured

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