What is React?
Introduction When you visit a website, what is the first thing you notice? Its appearance, right? Websites can be beautiful and they can be dull as well. But is appearance everything? No, not at all. The most important factor of...
What is Python and Why use it?
Introduction There are over seven hundred programming languages. Yes! more than seven hundred. But not all of them are popular. Most of the programmers won’t even know the ninety-five percent of these seven hundred programming languages. Although many different programming...
What is a Subdomain?
Before we can explain what a subdomain we first need to understand what a domain and hostname is. A domain name is a unique name that can’t be used by anyone else, for example g7cloud.com or Google.com is a domain...
What is SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It is the “process of obtaining traffic and increasing the visibility of a webpage in a search engine’s unpaid results”. Search results generally contain paid and organic listing as shown below. SEO can help...
What is Gzip Compression?
You may have noticed in Google’s PageSpeed Insights that some websites are flagged up for not enabling compression, as seen below. WHAT EXACTLY IS GZIP COMPRESSION? The simple’s way to explain Gzip compression is by imagining you ordered a new dinner table....
What is Minify?
You probably heard that you should always minify your files, be it JavaScript, HTML or CSS. Tools such as PageSpeed Insights will often flag warnings that CSS & JS files are not minified, but what exactly does it mean? Minify...