A page’s loading speed is affected by 4 major things, server-side processing, client to server communication, size of data to be downloaded and rendering time.
This article will focus on the latter two - minimizing the data to be loaded and reducing browser rendering time. Here are some great tips and tricks:
Continue Reading 16 comments November 18, 2007
Time to replace your boring text-only site navigation with something more pleasing to the eye?
How about beautiful CSS-based tab-like navigation? With free customizable source code?
Here are a few nice resources for CSS navigation as well as my selection of cool menus and tools:
Continue Reading Add comment November 14, 2007
Contact forms are a must for practically any type of website. Most likely, the first contact you will have with a potential customer will be through the contact form on your site, thus it is one of the most important parts of the website. Here are a few tips and guidelines for making a good contact form.
Continue Reading 2 comments November 9, 2007
Your cousin can draw some really nice pictures (her pencil strokes are simple and clean, just what you would like your website to be). Your friend knows some Photoshop (she uses it to make her pictures look prettier on social networking sites and she sure does a great job!). Your neighbour’s son is an avid blogger and his blog about iPhone over-clocking-or-something is quite nice. And all of these people have offered to design your website for free. Why would you even bother searching for and worst of all paying for a designer?
While a website designer’s job is indeed all of the above, web design encompasses much more than just drawing pretty pictures, editing photos and knowing HTML code. It’s not just a profession, it’s an art - therefore, not only does being a designer require deep industry knowledge, it also requires a touch of talent.
Let me point out a few important reasons why you probably need an experienced designer.
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So, you’re ready to take your business online. But are you prepared for the process?
Here is a checklist of things you need, before you even start thinking about pretty designs…
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