Oct30

14 rules for faster pages

Steve Souders, chief of Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance Team, devised 14 rules for faster pages to squeeze more zest from page performance, the rules in short are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions [...]

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Oct17

Findings from the 2007 Web Design Survey

Took a while but was well worth the wait, some interesting analysis has been made on the results. Go get it!

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Oct15

In-house Team + Contractor = Contention?

A recent SXSW podcast titled “The Holy Trinity of Web Design” dealt with the issue of contention in projects consisting of in-house teams and contractors. Contention is especially apparent when both sides are technically sound and experienced. As a contractor, querying why things are as they are or suggesting new ways of doing things could [...]

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Oct04

Form Layout using Definition Lists

As you may well know, using a definition list (DL) to layout forms with labels and fields side-by-side could be a bit flaky at times; forms don’t seem to scale nicely and numerous layout problems could occur with dynamic content. Typical pitfalls are situations where a label or field takes up two or more lines [...]

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