‘News’ Archives
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Page Speed
Site speed is getting more and more important, not less. And knowing that your site is loading quickly can benefit your readers as well as your site. But once you’ve made your images as small as possible, what can you do to improve your page speeds? The Page Speed [Read More]
Poll: What social networks do you belong to?
Social networks are getting more and more popular. People use them to connect with friends and colleagues, stay up-to-date on things that interest them, you can even use them to assist in your job search. But there are so many different ones out there. I have a Facebook fan [Read More]
Speed Up Your Sites by Compressing the Files
Back in April, Google announced that they were adding a new signal to their ranking algorithm – speed. I have been told recently that web page sizes are no longer as important because many people have high speed internet connections. Google has found in their tests [Read More]
Wordless Wednesday – Working Designer Profiles – Geoff Snow
How did you become a web designer? Fill out this form (be sure to include a photo) to be featured on the home page of About.com Web Design/HTML: Share Your Experience. More Web design resources and help: Follow me on Twitter or Become a Fan on Facebook [Read More]
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deviantART Web Interface Designs
If you’re looking for inspiration for your next design project, I would suggest looking at the images displayed on deviantART. This site hosts all types of art from photography to anime, but the part that I find most inspiring is the web interface design section. I [Read More]
Learn Why Including a Trailing Slash on URLs is Important
The trailing slash on URLs is often left off, but that is a mistake as it can affect how quickly your pages load from the web server. That slash may not seem important, but it serves a purpose. More Help Naming Your Pages and Creating URLs Why do URLs often end with a [Read More]
Should designers learn languages like HTML and CSS?
In previous years, when I’ve asked this in the past I’ve gotten a lot of responses from people who write HTML from scratch insisting that knowing HTML and CSS is critical to doing the job. But as spreng says in a comment last week, word processors used to [Read More]
Good news for HTML5 video!
If you have been unsure about whether to move to HTML 5 video or not, one more hurdle has been removed. MPEG LA has announced that the license for H.264 video will be free forever for anyone who provides their videos free to the end user. Since this was the main objection [Read More]
Don’t make these XML mistakes
XML can be a very easy language to learn, but if you don’t follow some specific rules, it won’t work for you. Make sure you know these five common XML errors when you’re writing XML (or XHTML) and you’ll find your documents will be more correct. More [Read More]
Wordless Wednesday – Design Favorites – GOPP
Get your favorite website featured on About.com: Show Off Your Favorite Design. More Web design resources and help: Follow me on Twitter or Become a Fan on Facebook [Read More]
