Yes, I heard somewhere deep under the hood eduhub.nl is WordPress. Code can be poetry ;)
Validation offers little business value. My reply was perhaps a bit old-fashioned. Why eat your plate, when you can only eat desserts? But validation is a prerequisite for accessibility. Accessibility may or may not add business value -- like an architect that designs houses for people between 190 cm and 165cm might not ever face a problem.
I think Pingdom is not about page speed, but ping speed. Things like javascript resources won't be downloaded in parallel right now, no matter the Pingdom score: combining your 7 jQuery plug-ins will increase page speed.
You really need a front-ender for the exciting stuff, I agree. A statistician with front-end experience would be even better.
I understand that in iterating fast like you are, you might leave some crumbs, to move on to bigger and better things. But also in practice, as a good front-end developer, part of a good team, it is possible to validate and speed-optimize even the largest of sites.
And the multi-functionality you rightfully demand from a front-ender, you can extend to every scrum team member. That means if the front-ender hands in a valid template, back-end devs should take care (know just enough) to not invalidate it.
You heard that (partially) wrong. The only part of Eduhub that is Wordpress is the article section and then only the backend part of that. All the article views and the rest of the site are served by CakePHP.
Most (not all) of the validation errors on our page are caused by external Javascripts (eg. VWO) by the way. But you do raise a valid point about some performance related issues, like minifying JS/CSS and combining files. The good news is, we're working on that!
Validation offers little business value. My reply was perhaps a bit old-fashioned. Why eat your plate, when you can only eat desserts? But validation is a prerequisite for accessibility. Accessibility may or may not add business value -- like an architect that designs houses for people between 190 cm and 165cm might not ever face a problem.
I think Pingdom is not about page speed, but ping speed. Things like javascript resources won't be downloaded in parallel right now, no matter the Pingdom score: combining your 7 jQuery plug-ins will increase page speed.
You really need a front-ender for the exciting stuff, I agree. A statistician with front-end experience would be even better.
I understand that in iterating fast like you are, you might leave some crumbs, to move on to bigger and better things. But also in practice, as a good front-end developer, part of a good team, it is possible to validate and speed-optimize even the largest of sites.
And the multi-functionality you rightfully demand from a front-ender, you can extend to every scrum team member. That means if the front-ender hands in a valid template, back-end devs should take care (know just enough) to not invalidate it.