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Web Development adnd Design
Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).
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Random Bits, the podcast that gives you an insiders view
I was over at Alex King’s blog today checking out his mobile web plugin for wordpress and I noticed some fresh podcasts from some of the industry’s finest. The feeds are .mp3 and are easy to find and browse on the search-this.com site. They have some pretty nice articles over there as well..
Continue ReadingCSS Background Image Sprites
Using a CSS Background Image Sprite with the CSS background-position and background-image I can display all these icons: . I can even have them show up anywhere on the page!
Getting flash to show up in front of content
I used to have a problem of controlling flash elements on my sites.. On one site we have 6 different flash flv movies that are all the same size and are in the same position on the page. But only 1 is displayed at a time based on what the user wants to watch. So the selected flash movie needs to have the highest stacking order/zIndex.
Speed Tips: Use Multiple SubDomains
To make your site even faster, serve certain content from different subdomains. The reason this works is amazingly cool!
Continue ReadingFirefox, Firebug, and yslow are REQUIRED
A lot of the past and upcoming articles on AskApache are focused on speeding up a server or website, or just making things more efficient. I’m starting several speed tip articles that require the following 3 programs if you want to follow along, that is… if you can keep up! ;)
Continue ReadingSpeedier Sites use CSS Sprites
An Image Sprite is simply multiple images combined into one image. Using the background-position in CSS you can display a specific image from the image sprite.
Sprites reduce the number of files that are requested and downloaded by site visitors, resulting in noticeable decreases in Page-Loading times, Bandwidth usage, and Server loads.
Top methods for Faster, Speedier web sites
High Performance Web Site list of the best and newest methods to make web pages super fast using caching, compression, cache-control, etc.
Continue ReadingBest-practice Web Design Process
Web Design Process
I have spent a considerable amount of time investing in learning best-practices for modern web-design..
(as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium) This basically means that I can rapidly make changes to a site.
Let me break down the process
I use XHTML [...]
Preload flash .flv files into browser cache
Preloading and Caching flash .flv files to speed up your website and save on bandwidth
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