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.