Web Tutorials

What is web development? In short, web development is the work of building and maintaining websites and web applications, everything from a simple brochure site to a complex platform like an online bank. If you have ever wondered what actually happens between an idea and a working website, this beginner’s guide...

Web development best practices are the difference between a website that merely works and one that performs, ranks, and lasts. In 2026 the bar is higher than ever: users expect instant load times, search engines reward speed and accessibility, and security threats are relentless. The good news is that the practices...

Website development for small business is where the most common, and most costly, mistakes happen. A small business does not need the biggest or most expensive website, but it does need one that loads fast, builds trust, and turns local searchers into customers. Too many small business owners either overspend on...

Ecommerce website development is one of the highest-stakes decisions an online retailer makes, because the platform you choose shapes your costs, your flexibility, and your ceiling for growth. In 2026 the core question for most UK businesses comes down to this: a hosted platform like Shopify, or a custom build. Both...

Images are almost always the heaviest thing on a web page, and the way you host them decides whether your site feels instant or sluggish. In 2026 the question is no longer “should I optimise my images” but “where should they live so optimisation happens automatically.” After years of resizing images on the edge for...

If Cloudflare Images is where your images live, Cloudflare Image Transformations is the engine that makes them fast. It resizes, compresses and converts your images to modern formats at the moment they are requested, using only the original you already have. No build step, no pre-generated thumbnails, no separate...

If you host a lot of images, the line item that quietly destroys your budget is not storage, it is egress: the fee cloud providers charge every time someone downloads a file. Amazon S3 and most competitors bill you per gigabyte served, so a single viral post or a busy product catalogue can produce a bandwidth invoice...

Object storage pricing is deceptively hard to compare because the headline storage rate is rarely the number that ends up on your bill. The figure that actually decides your cost is egress, the charge for serving data out to your users, and it is exactly the number that providers bury. Cloudflare R2 made itself easy to...

For most of the last decade, running an AI model meant renting a GPU server, managing drivers, and paying for that hardware whether requests came in or not. Cloudflare Workers AI changes the model entirely: you call an AI model the same way you call any other function in a Worker, it runs on GPUs distributed across...

For years the answer to “where do I deploy this on Cloudflare” was simple: static sites and frontends went on Pages, and serverless logic went on Workers. In 2026 that line has blurred, because Workers can now serve static assets directly, which means a single Worker can host your whole site, frontend and backend...