What's new in the WordPress world: The popular Gravity Forms plugin gets an update, the WordPress community discusses Google's FLoC solution and how to use the Figma WordPress Design Library. In our magazine, we show you all about Progressive Web Apps and the new iOS 14 data protection and provide insights into how Caspar Hübinger is driving internationalization at our company. Have fun reading! ?
Progressive web app with WordPress: advantages and disadvantages
Our agency partner giftGRÜN has used WordPress to build a progressive web app (PWA for short) for the University Hospital RWTH Aachen, which supports the onboarding of new employees. We spoke to Patrick Heinker about the advantages and disadvantages of PWAs versus websites and native apps. Learn more
SEA campaigns with Google Ads: how to succeed
Ads on Google & Co. are an important building block for your marketing. But for many, search engine advertising (SEA) is a closed book. Sascha Humpel explains how to get started successfully.
iOS 14 privacy & the consequences for Facebook Ads
The iOS 14 update is here and Apple is introducing stricter data protection rules. What restrictions now apply to Facebook advertisers? Sven Scheuerle sheds light on the whole issue.
New at Raidboxes: Caspar Hübinger
Raidboxes will be expanding internationally. An important step for which we were able to win over a prominent face from the WordPress community: Caspar Hübinger. In this interview, he reveals more about internationalization.
WordPress
First steps with the Figma WordPress Design Library
As the name suggests, the Figma WordPress Design Library is a library of WordPress design assets. You can use it to quickly create prototypes for WordPress UI in Figma. More details and a great tutorial can be found in the official WordPress article.
WordPress wants to automatically block FLoC in the core
Google is testing FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) as an alternative solution for third-party cookies. Due to significant concerns about data protection and discrimination, WordPress is now planning to block tracking by default. What do you think? Join the discussion!
Online Marketing
Gravity Forms 2.5 launches with redesigned UI & focus on accessibility
The Gravity Forms team has officially announced version 2.5 of its WordPress plugin for forms. A clean, functional design awaits us: above all, the creation of accessible forms should become easier and faster.
Web design & development
Fresh resources in web design and web development
Nowadays, a great product stands and falls with the ecosystem: just imagine the iPhone without apps or WordPress without plugins. With this in mind, Hongkiat introduces you to the latest resources - with design patterns and libraries for icons & Laravel.
Design meets science: Top 1000 websites & their fonts
Data scientist Michael Li has crawled and examined over a million websites: from images and layout to fonts and colors. In this article, he summarizes the exciting things he learned about web fonts & co.
Business
How to improve the carbon footprint of your website
Do you know how many emissions your website consumes? The answer is: it doesn't matter, you can always do less. Find out how you can reduce your website's CO2 emissions while improving performance, user experience and SEO here.
