Posts Tagged ‘optimization’
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The Smashing Book – Performance Optimization for Websites
- October 5th, 2011
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Slow and unresponsive web sites are annoying. And if your website is annoying, your visitors are unlikely to buy goods or contact you. You lose money. Hence, it is important for you to optimize your website to provide a good user experience. Yahoo’s Firefox plug-in YSlow provides tips on how to ...
Read more...Optimizing Error Pages: Creating Opportunities Out Of Mistakes
- May 18th, 2011
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In this article I’ll be reviewing a few techniques that will help Web designers and UI professionals to improve their error pages in order to engage visitors and improve overall website experience. As C. S. Lewis once said, “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement”. Web designers should ...
Read more...PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques
- July 25th, 2009
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This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. ...
Read more...How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content
- July 19th, 2009
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A lot of traffic between users and your site comes from the static content you’re using to set up the user interface, namely layout graphics, Stylesheets and Javascript files. This article shows a method to improve the providing of static content for a web platform. Further, it will show ...
Read more...Clever PNG Optimization Techniques
- July 15th, 2009
- 172 Comments
As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many ...
Read more...Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques
- July 1st, 2009
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When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. ...
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