Blog - Glue Studio

Micro Service Web Development

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about offloading your WordPress Media Library to Amazon S3 — which I found really resonated with a lot of people I shared it with. The idea of not using a single server to host all of your images and instead offloading the responsibility to another, better suited […]

Cloud Vs Local File Storage

So you’ve got a website. It’s all shiny and new but it’s going to be showing off a lot of images, videos or maybe audio files. The traditional approach to this is to just bung these files on the same server as your website – now this can sort of work when you don’t have […]

Oh What A Year It’s Been, 2018

Writing these things is never easy – I’ve been staring at a blank screen for the last 15 minutes trying to work out how to start things off. When I first sat down to write this it was going to be a blow by blow account of everything that we’ve done this year. However I […]

How best to accommodate accessibility in WordPress themes

Writing accessible content is key for so many reasons beyond the need to help your content reach every member of your audience. Advances in technology have put content in the reach of anyone, no matter their ability. But to enable that, as web developers it’s really important that consideration is made to ensure your projects […]

How best to display a date-time picker?

Recently I was asked by a client to add a date -time picker for users to provide a time and date as part of a contact form. Initially this feels like one of those requests that shouldn’t be a problem – display a calendar and a selection of times and the user will work out the […]

Developing for Different Devices

Some Might argue that Developing applications and brochures for the web is easier than writing a native application for devices based on their respective OS. But if you scratch just a little deeper in to web development you start to realise the same issues exist, but maybe the web is designed with a few more of these problems in mind.

Working with Older Hardware

Anyone who has any interest in computing is likely to have a bit of old hardware lying around. Old drawers, top of cupboards, even in the attic I’ve got a couple of bits and bobs from days gone past thinking that they might become useful. But what uses do they have?

5 Reasons why you should be using a subscription based business model

There’s been a trend recently for so many services that traditionally would collect an up-front payment to push users to take on a subscription model. Here’s 5 good reasons why so many business are going this way, and why it works.

About WordPress Gutenberg

Unless, like us, you’re a bit of a WordPress nerd – you’ve probably never heard about Gutenberg. Well here’s the blog post to tell you everything you’ve probably never wanted to know about the new content editor from WordPress. Some History As far as I can remember, WordPress has had the same editor. If you’re […]

What Apple’s WWDC means for Web Developers

Yesterday was Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote, addressing app developers and the public at large about their upcoming changes and plans for their operating systems and development environments. Here at Glue we use Apple devices for local development almost exclusively. Between us we must have a dozen Apple devices, along with a handful of test […]