CategoryOptimization

March 11, 2013 — In this article, Jordan Moore is going to discuss a few of the lesser practiced elements that are quietly becoming part of the responsive Web design ecosystem under the umbrella of responsible Web design, a design that has been evolving rapidly ever since Ethan Marcotte coined the term two years ago. Since then, techniques have emerged, become best practices and formed part of our ever-changing methodology. Read more…

March 5, 2013 — In this article, Jeremy Girard will detail the process he and his team took when they were redesigning their company’s website. including some of the changes they made along the way, as they worked to build a better responsive website. Read more…

November 5, 2012 — There are many common pitfalls when it comes to writing memory-efficient and fast code. In this article we’re going to explore some test-proven approaches for writing code that performs better. Read more…

September 12, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown spoke with the developers behind some of the biggest WordPress blogs on the planet. Now, she shares their secrets with you. Read more…

August 22, 2012 — Brad Frost analyzes the websites and techniques of the two US presidential candidates of 2012: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Why did the candidates attempted to create mobile-optimized Web experiences? Learn more about an early case of a link between a presidential race and making websites mobile-friendly. Read more…

June 21, 2012 — If you’re a developer of mobile Web apps, then you’ve heard this before: Native apps perform better than Web apps. But what does “perform better” mean? Read more…

December 7, 2011 — The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code snippets to the functions.php file in your WordPress theme. Read more…

August 30, 2011 — If you really care about your visitors, then read this post in which Sergey Chikuyonok demonstrates how to optimize images with HTML5 Canvas. Read more…

May 18, 2011 — Daniel Waisberg focuses on error and maintenance pages, both from tracking as well as usability perspectives. Also, go through a good number of examples on how to use analytics and defensive design in order to optimize user experience for such pages. Read more…

July 25, 2009 — 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. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many options for PNG optimization, especially for truecolor PNG’s (PNG-24 in Photoshop), which doesn’t have any. Some of you may even think that this format is “unoptimizable”. Well, in this post we’ll try to debunk this myth. This post describes some techniques that may help you optimize your PNG-images. These techniques are derived from laborious hours spent on studying how exactly the PNG encoder saves data. We’ll talk about grayscale, how to use fewer colors for optimization and also about reducing detail to minmize the file size. You may want to take a look at the following related articles: * Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques * Clever PNG Optimization Techniques Read more…