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Speed Up Your Site: The Basics
2007-11-18 19:38:00
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:
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Speed Up Your Site: The Basics
2007-11-18 19:38:00
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:
More About: Site , Speed , Basics , Speed up , The Basics

Make your menus pretty with CSS
2007-11-14 06:56:00
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:
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Make your menus pretty with CSS
2007-11-14 06:56:00
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: 1. A selection of ready-made CSS menus All of these come with functioning previews and downloadable source code. Click the preview image for a demo or the link to visit the download page. Pure CSS Horizontal Menus with Images by WebDesignInfo - click here for preview 12+ Free CSS Menus by Exploding-Boy - click here for preview Inverted Tabs @ DynamicDrive Dolphin Menu @ 13Styles Style #4 @ 13Styles Mini Tab Shapes by SimpleBits - click here for preview Float Mini Tabs by Alessandro - click here for preview 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus by Exploding-Boy - click here for preview Advanced CSS Menu by WebDesignerWall - click here for preview 2 level horizontal navigation with images by Veerle - cli...
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Tips for making a good contact form
2007-11-09 18:10:00
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.
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Tips for making a good contact form
2007-11-09 18:10:00
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.
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Top 10 sites to check for design inspiration
2007-11-06 05:08:00
When I?m creating or redesigning a website, I usually take some time to crawl around the web and seek out sites that fit in the same category for ideas, or just check out the newest sites on various top-lists for innovative approaches. Besides checking out my favourite designers? portfolios for latest creations, these are the bookmarks that never let me down..
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Top 10 sites to check for design inspiration
2007-11-06 05:08:00
When I?m creating or redesigning a website, I usually take some time to crawl around the web and seek out sites that fit in the same category for ideas, or just check out the newest sites on various top-lists for innovative approaches. Besides checking out my favourite designers? portfolios for latest creations, these are the bookmarks that never let me down..
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Why you need to hire a Designer for your website
2007-11-05 06:24:00
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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Why you need to hire a Designer for your website
2007-11-05 06:24:00
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.
More About: Website , Hire , Designer

Starting your first business website
2007-10-08 00:35:00
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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Starting your first business website
2007-10-08 00:35:00
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...
More About: Business , Website , Sine