The Jellypepper Blog

Stories, updates and insights from the Jellypepper team.

Development

What is the JAMStack?

JAMStack stands for Javascript, APIs and Markup. It's a tech stack designed to create websites and apps that are incredibly fast, super secure and highly scalable.

Agency

How Creative Agencies Can Use Analytics to Prove Success

We sat down with Mailchimp to talk about how we use analytics to prove success.

Design

Gamification: A Growth Technique With Proven Results

The psychology behind gamification and how you can use it to increase engagement with your users!

Startups

5 Ways to Reduce the Cost of a New Website

The upfront cost of a website quote can be quite overwhelming for young startups. So, how can you reduce it?

Branding

Branding for Disruptive Startups

What makes a great startup brand and why branding disruptive startups can be challenging.

Design

Design Sprints: The 5-Day Process for Rapid Ideation

Design Sprints take traditional design thinking methodologies and compress them into a five-day process of rapid ideation.

Startups

How to create an amazing startup explainer video

Creating a video is hard work, so we've assembled a few tips and resources to get you on your way.

SEO

What are Backlinks and How Do They Work?

Ever wondered what backlinks are and how they work? We're here to break it down for you!

Development

How different types of Next.js rendering works

This time we're going into depth on the different rendering types of Next.js and how they work.

Branding

Choosing the right font for your brand

A guide on to deciding which fonts to choose and a helpful list of independent foundries.

Development

Becoming an open-source developer

How to get started as an open-source developer, from setting up your account to publishing projects.

Development

Different types of coding languages and how they work

In this article, we'll explore a few popular high level and low level languages such as Python, C++, JavaScript and Ruby evaluating how complex they are and what are the advantages of each one.

Branding

Tips for writing perfect product onboarding copy

Asking for personal data is a delicate process, so we've compiled some tips on how to best ask users for their personal information.

Agency

Revisiting the Jellypepper brand in 2021

Jellypepper does Jellypepper. How meta! A bit of background into our recent brand strategy and identity refresh.

Development

Why we moved from Wordpress to JAMStack

A talk from the Gatsby Arvos meetup about Gatsby and Next.js and why we decided to use them at Jellypepper.

Startups

Our top 10 resources for launching a new startup

Some cost-effective tools and methods of getting your SaaS product off the ground without breaking the bank.

Development

How we build web apps with class-leading performance

Performance is a central focus of any project we take on, due to its huge impact on user experience and engagement.

SEO

How to educate and build brand awareness for new ideas

Some cost-effective methods and mediums for getting your bright idea off the ground.

Branding

Brand Strategy: that thing you didn't know you needed

Brand strategy can feel like an intangible and unclear concept. Here's a brief overview of what it is and why it's crucial to the creative process.

Branding

How to make an effective brand book for clients

Wondering how we create brand books? Get a glimpse into our approach and process when we develop these crucial guides.

Agency

Changes in response to COVID-19

We are living in unprecedented times as a new pandemic sweeps the globe. Here's what we're doing to stop the spread.

Agency

The long-term impact of building your portfolio

Using case studies and quality content to improve your personal brand and streamline your sales process.

Development

Improving developer efficiency with generators

If you are starting every website project you build from scratch, then you can drastically improve development productivity by taking advantage of generators.

Development

Optimising your Gatsby website's Lighthouse scores

Improving your website's performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO with Google's Lighthouse audit.

Development

Building Progressive Web Apps with React and Gatsby

Turning your Gatsby website into a PWA makes it more engaging, performant and resilient for mobile users.

Development

How to develop React apps faster with Neutrino JS

Modern JavaScript workflows are complicated. Here's how to save time and pulled hair by using a build framework.

SEO

What is technical SEO and how does it impact my site?

Metadata, structured data, canonical urls and all the wonderful parts of search engine optimisation.

Development

Building a serverless static website in 2020

An introduction to decoupled, serverless workflows with Prismic and Gatsby for incredible performance and reliability.

Development

How to create branded case studies with Prismic slices

A glimpse into our case study builder that uses Prismic slices and Gatsby to create on-brand customer success stories.

Design

The 7 questions your creative brief should answer

A few tips to create the perfect brief for your website redesign that captures the essentials and your objectives.

Startups

What you need to know before naming your startup

The power of a good name should never be underestimated. Here's our three-step guide to brainstorming the perfect business name.