https://honeystone.com/feed<![CDATA[Honeystone Blog]]>Insights, best practices and latest news from the team at Honeystone.2024-09-02T09:51:59+00:00<![CDATA[The importance of servicing and maintenance for your website]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/the-importance-of-servicing-and-maintenance-for-your-website
For someone who is not “technically minded”, one way to understand why website maintenance is important to your business, is to think of your website like a vehicle.]]>
2024-09-02T09:51:59+00:00<![CDATA[We completely refreshed the Honeystone website after 4 years of service]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/we-completely-refreshed-the-honeystone-website-after-4-years-of-service
After 4 years the Honeystone website was starting to feel its age. Functionally it was great, the content was pretty good too, and it performed well (100% on PageSpeed Insights), yet it just felt a bit dull and dated - I wanted to rebuild it!]]>
2024-08-07T20:04:11+00:00<![CDATA[Gain a top class website that works hard for your business]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/save-time-money-while-turbocharging-your-online-presence
The choice between an online site builder or a website built by a professional developer, has often come down to the initial outlay. With our new subscription website packages that no longer has to be the case.]]>
2024-08-08T14:04:17+00:00<![CDATA[We’ve just open-sourced our application context manager for Laravel]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/weve-just-open-sourced-our-application-context-manager-for-laravel
Not to be confused with Laravel’s new context library, this package can be used to build multi-context multi-tenant applications. Most multi-tenant libraries essentially have a single ‘tenant’ context, so if you need multiple contexts, things can get a bit fiddly. This new package solves that problem.]]>
2024-07-23T21:28:23+00:00<![CDATA[Huge CrowdStrike outage, what does it all mean?]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/huge-crowdstrike-outage-what-does-it-all-mean
With all the news surrounding the CrowdStrike outage and crashing Microsoft Windows machines, many of our customers may be quite rightly concerned. In this short post I’m going to do my best to explain what’s going on and what level of interruption you can expect.]]>
2024-07-24T15:45:41+00:00<![CDATA[Should you get a professional website or go DIY?]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/should-you-get-a-professional-website-or-go-diy
If you are looking for your first website, or seeking to replace one which is not delivering, the myriad of available options can often appear overwhelming.]]>
2024-07-26T07:41:03+00:00<![CDATA[Image file formats deciphered]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/image-file-formats-deciphered
PNG, JPEG, SVG, WebP - they’re all images, they look mostly the same, but their differences are more pronounced than you might expect.
In this guide we’ll look at common image formats for the web and you’ll learn how to choose the right file type for the job.
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2024-07-19T20:29:14+00:00<![CDATA[How to defer offscreen images]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/how-to-defer-offscreen-images
So you’ve run your website through Lighthouse for Chrome, or Google PageSpeed insights, and there’s a horrible red warning “Defer offscreen images”. It’s a pretty easy one to fix, but may be daunting at first glance.]]>
2024-07-24T13:06:20+00:00<![CDATA[Code, low-code and no-code]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/code-low-code-and-no-code
This is a basic, surface level, introduction to these technologies and our thoughts and opinions surrounding them. We look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of low-code/no-code solutions and how they compare to their traditional custom code counterpart.]]>
2024-08-07T00:15:32+00:00<![CDATA[Sponsoring the White Horse Soapbox Derby and Engineering Fair]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/sponsoring-the-white-horse-soapbox-derby-and-engineering-fair
Honeystone are proudly sponsoring the 2023 Westbury Whitehorse Soapbox Derby and Engineering Fair.]]>
2024-07-18T12:04:08+00:00<![CDATA[Your website should be as good as your business]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/your-website-should-be-as-good-as-your-business
Experience earned over two decades has taught us that online success is about using the right tools, to do lots of seemingly little things really well. In this article I am going to share just some of the best practices Honeystone follows to build successful websites. The more of these things that are done right, the more successful your website can become.]]>
2024-07-18T12:22:18+00:00<![CDATA[Is your website working for you and your audience?]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/is-your-website-working-for-you-and-your-audience
There are two primary considerations for a successful online presence, good visibility and positive perception.]]>
2024-08-07T00:13:15+00:00<![CDATA[How a TypedCMS built website gives my business and my clients an edge over site builder websites]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/typedcms-built-website
In a world where credibility means everything and website visitors take .05 seconds to form an opinion of my business, I wanted my website to make a good impression fast. I found that the TypedCMS built website offered by Honeystone checked off all the criteria on my list. ]]>
2024-07-22T13:18:36+00:00<![CDATA[A SIMPLE way to write effective website content]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/simple-website-content
Make it SIMPLE for people to find, choose, buy, use, recommend and rate your products and services.]]>
2024-07-22T12:58:58+00:00<![CDATA[Turbocharge your return on investment by underpinning SEO with SEF]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/turbocharge-your-return-on-investment
Understanding the difference between SEO (search engine optimisation) and SEF (search engine friendliness) can help you stay several steps ahead of your competitors online.]]>
2022-09-28T16:06:23+00:00<![CDATA[Creating content to get you noticed]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/creating-content-to-get-you-noticed
Content for the “suggestive” stage of the SIMPLE content model is either off your website or is picked up from your website by search engines, scraped off and then used to index your site. The “suggestive” phase of content creation addresses the beginning of the buying cycle - the time when people are searching for a product or service to solve a problem, but probably haven’t visited or even heard of your website yet.]]>
2021-10-04T08:42:22+00:00<![CDATA[TimFest 2021]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/timfest-2021
It was great to be part of such a fun event and catch up with colleagues and friends from far and wide.]]>
2021-08-16T11:22:39+00:00<![CDATA[A new Honeystone website built with TypedCMS and Laravel]]>https://honeystone.com/blog/a-new-honeystone-website-built-with-typedcms-and-laravel
Finding time to build your own website when you are in the web design business is harder than it might appear as the needs of customers and their projects inevitably take priority.
Seven years after building the last Honeystone website we have finally completed and launched its successor.