Ben Moss
Ben Moss has designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. When he’s not in front of a screen he’s probably out trail-running.
Square Rebrands as Block
A few days ago, the big tech news was that Jack Dorsey was stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO to focus on…
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Facebook Goes All Meta
It’s almost Halloween, so we were all expecting the odd scare, but little could have prepared us for the blood-chilling…
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Fighting Your Corner: Assertive SEO in 2021+
The web industry is beset by competing ideals and goals so that the simplicity of numbers makes sense to us: one is…
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8 Freelance Project Management Apps for 2021+
In my experience, the biggest challenge that freelancers face — more than winning clients or setting prices — is…
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How to Work for Free Without Wrecking Your Career
Choosing to work for free, pro bono, gratis, without charge is something that most of us find ourselves doing at one…
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9 Must-Install Craft CMS Plugins
Craft CMS is increasing in popularity, and as it does, the previously relatively scant range of plugins is growing…
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Poll: The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of GitHub’s Copilot
On June 29th, GitHub announced Copilot, an AI-powered auto-complete for programmers, prompting a debate about the…
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I Love Typography Launches Font Store
There is no shortage of places to buy fonts online, but the quality of what is on offer is variable, and the way of…
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Poll: Is AMP Dead, and Do We Care?
It’s fair to say that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a controversial topic among web developers.
AMP is a…
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3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good…
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Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One…
This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by a…
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Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?
This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app…
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3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
To mark Earth Day 2021, we’re looking at the ways you can reduce your site’s carbon footprint, while boosting…
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Wix vs WordPress: 3rd Round Knockout
Over the last fortnight one site builder has gone toe-to-toe with another, as Wix launched a marketing campaign aimed…
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Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?
We’re no longer arguing about whether climate change exists because climate change is now extensively documented.…
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Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
We all get excited about new projects; we're daydreaming about possibilities from the first contact with a potential…
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7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021
Web design is an ever-evolving field. Those of us that have been in the industry a long time (i.e., six months plus)…
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Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
This week Google announced further details of its plan to remove cookies from ad tracking. The strategy, which the ad…
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