"It still works, so it's fine."

Until it isn't. Tech debt doesn't crash your site — it just quietly taxes every feature you try to ship next.

We wrote about what it actually costs a growing business and how to know when it's time to rebuild the foundation: smith-cordell.com/blog/tech-debt

PDFs are a terrible way to serve a restaurant menu. But when it comes to dietary and allergen data, getting the web model wrong can literally put a customer in hospital.

A deep dive into structuring restaurant menus for the web:

smith-cordell.com/blog/filtera...

#WebDev #UXDesign #HospitalityTech

Most of what we build at studio:sc® runs on SvelteKit. Here's why:

– No virtual DOM overhead.
– No framework runtime.
– Just compiled, surgical JavaScript.

We've written up the full case for it on our blog: smith-cordell.com/blog/sveltekit

#SvelteKit #Svelte #WebDev #PerformanceMatters

Most articles about Schema[dot]org structured data stop at "add it for rich snippets". That's like buying a filing cabinet and only ever using the top drawer.

smith-cordell.com/blog/structu...

#StructuredData #SchemaOrg #SEO #WebDevelopment #TechnicalSEO

"We'll deal with accessibility eventually" is becoming a much riskier position for digital brands to hold.

smith-cordell.com/blog/accessi...

#Accessibility #WebDev #UXEngineering

How do you get sub-30ms global load times without giving up a single source of truth for your data?

At studio:sc®, we've been refining a pattern across recent projects.

smith-cordell.com/blog/postgre...

#WebDevelopment #SvelteKit #CloudflareWorkers #Postgres #EdgeComputing

Most e-commerce carts make you wait. Click to add an item, and there's a beat before anything happens. Open the same store in two tabs, and neither has any idea what the other is doing. We made a list of issues and fixed them!

smith-cordell.com/blog/shopify...

#Ecommerce #WebDev #HeadlessCommerce

Most websites throw away about 25% of the colour your screen can actually show. That's because almost every image on the web is encoded in sRGB. So we made a Display P3 image pipeline with fallbacks.

smith-cordell.com/blog/display...

#imagetransformation #displayp3 #webdev

We’ve all been there: staring at #3A7BD5 and trying to remember whether that’s the blue we wanted, or wrestling with RGB values that bear no resemblance to how we actually perceive colour.

OKLCH is the pragmatic choice for modern CSS.

smith-cordell.com/blog/why-okl...

We recently rebuilt our website to prepare for the future expansion of client-focused functionality. While doing so, we reflected on lead capture and realised that using Calendly directly on the website was for my convenience and negatively impacted conversion.

smith-cordell.com/blog/from-co...

When Perfect Havoc, a UK dance and house record label, needed to securely integrate its artist royalties payment platform with its #Webflow site, it faced a common challenge: how to extend beyond Webflow's capabilities while maintaining enterprise-grade security.

We've worked hand-in-hand with Bart & Taylor, creating their venues' websites and corporate site. Trickle is their latest concept, boasting 24 taps, pouring a wide variety of beers, wines, and cocktails on draught, along with hand-stretched pizzas.

#webdesign #webdev #webdevelopment #blazinglyfast

@privatevenuehire.bsky.social has historically focused on B2B event venue hire. They wanted to expand into B2C by introducing a new online event hire platform.

This full-stack web app is feature-packed.

#fullstackwebapp #uxdesign #webdevelopement

My Delhi is a multi-award-winning Indian restaurant group. Its restaurants are fun, vibrant, and eclectic, serving authentic favourites inspired by Delhi’s roadside stalls. Following a recent rebrand, the team wanted to introduce the fun, lively, and eclectic feel of its restaurants to its website.

Doner Shack is a fast-casual restaurant group focused on kebabs, chicken, and loaded fries. After successfully launching a website with Studio Smith-Cordell previously, they decided to engage us again as they underwent their new rebrand.

#webdev #madeinwebflow #fastfoodwebsite #websitedevelopment

Dakwala is a restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne inspired by Mumbai’s traditional Khanawal eateries. They wanted a premium editorial-looking one-page microsite that captured a vintage feel from when migrants relocated to Bombay in the early 1900s while appearing modern and interactive.

#webdev

Having previously completed websites for each of their unique venues, Bart & Taylor approached Studio Smith-Cordell to design and build a website for the group.

We're particularly proud of the curvy text interactions. Check them out on the About and Careers page.

#websitedesign #webdevelopment

Fern is a luxurious restaurant and bar open all day, every day, located within the Ten Degrees Tower. The concept for the venue is that the atmosphere and offering would evolve throughout the day into the evening — from breakfast to a nightcap.

fernlondon.co.uk

#websitedesign #websitedevelopment