DEV Community: Ryan Holton

📱 SMS API for developers!

Ryan Holton — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 16:57:55 +0000

👋 Hi everyone

Just a quick one!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New year holiday, we're back in action following the seasonal period now.

Over the past two weeks I've spent close to 100 hours building a new product, an SMS API called Snapi SMS

The idea behind Snapi SMS was to create a simple API with just a handful of API endpoints, they are:

Send message
Check message delivery status
Get API key credit balance

And...

To provide a simple, yet cost-effective solution to sending text messages globally.

I'm pleased to announce that the project is now live, and can be accessed at the following link: snapisms.io

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Top 6 Actionable Website Design Optimisation Tips

Ryan Holton — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:50:38 +0000

Are you trying to optimise your website's design?

Maybe you're trying to make your website look more vibrant on a phone but don't know how.

I'm a web developer and designer myself, and I've recently been diving deeper into the different techniques to optimise your site's design for mobile.

Want to know what they are? Let's dive right in...

Compress and Minify your assets

Image compression is absolutely essential for when it comes to the web, if your images don't load within a reasonable amount of time you'll lose customers as soon as they land on your website.

What can you do about this?

There's tools available, such as Tiny PNG, but beyond this...

Please...

Make sure that you're optimising your image's resolution as well for the page that your images are on, for example:

Say you've got a website, and your site's container is 1140px wide, there's no point having an image resolution that's 1920px wide.

This is not only going to slow your page speed down, but did you know that the Speed Update that Google released back in 2018 has played a huge part in how your site ranks based on page speed!

Wait... didn't you say 6 tips?

I sure did, and I don't really want to repeat myself twice, so that's why I've already put together an article on this that you might be interested in reading...

Check it out: 6 Actionable Responsive Website Design Optimisation Tips

Essential Ingredients To Improve Your Website's User Experience [Must Read]

Ryan Holton — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:34:37 +0000

Hi everyone 👋

I've recently been working on my website and have been trying to improve the user experience of the site...

I thought this might be a challenge that you've come across before so I wanted to share some tips for improving user experience!

If you're interested, it's a few minutes of content, so won't take up your whole day!

Here's a link to the article 🚀

The BEST website & domain monitoring tool just launched with a great UX!

Ryan Holton — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:56:41 +0000

Hi everyone 👋

I'm new to the devto community, so thought I'd introduce myself quickly!

I'm a front-end web developer and have been developing web applications for the past 5 years and recently wanted to build a brand new website & domain expiry checker tool that can:

Monitor your domain's expiry date
Check your SSL certificate expiry
Keep a track on your website's uptime status

I've always wanted to build one of these products, and have recently been able to thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why do we need another website monitoring tool product?

Yeah...

Great question, I was thinking the same...

There's many on the market, from the likes of:

These are great tools, I've used them, and they've got a LOT of features, and I wanted to try to build one of these tools, and build it better...

Going back to the drawing board, and simply providing exactly what you need.

A simple tool for monitoring domain expiry dates and website uptime.

Nothing more, yet ;)

I think I've done a great job, and since I've recently launched it, I'd like to get some feedback on what I've done since that's the only way it can be better...

I need your feedback!

We only learn and improve products by getting feedback, and that's exactly what I'm asking you for.

I'm not trying to advertise this product, so when you get 5 minutes, feel free to head over to my site and take a look

Here's a link: domain-monitor.io