Build Site Now http://www.buildsitenow.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Page Speed http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=281 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=281#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:00:34 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=281 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 Firebug plugin can help. You just load this plugin (you must have Firebug installed already) into Firefox, browse to a page you want to check, and run the analysis. Not only does it tell you where your pages are slowing down, it shows you how you can fix it.

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=281 0 Poll: What social networks do you belong to? http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=280 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=280#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=280

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 page and a Twitter account focused primarily on this site. But are there other social media sites that you use?

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=280 0 Speed Up Your Sites by Compressing the Files http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=278 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=278#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=278 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 that the slower a site loads, the less time people stay on that site. So, even if all your customers have DSL or better connections, they still will benefit from a fast site. And you will benefit from happier customers. One way to speed up your site is by having the web server compress the files before delivering them. This can reduce load times significantly.

How to Speed Up Your Web Pages

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=278 0 Wordless Wednesday – Working Designer Profiles – Geoff Snow http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=279 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=279#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:30 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=279 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

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=279 0 Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deviantART Web Interface Designs http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=275 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=275#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:04 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=275 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 love browsing through these when I’m bored or looking for my next idea for a project. Many of the designs are quite beautiful.

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=275 0 Learn Why Including a Trailing Slash on URLs is Important http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=277 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=277#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:35:35 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=277 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

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=277 0 Should designers learn languages like HTML and CSS? http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=276 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=276#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:51:08 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=276 HTML on a Mac
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 require that you know codes to get them to print and now they are all WYSIWYG. I’ve heard from beginners, hiring managers, and others, what do you think?

]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=276 0 Solid Giant http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=274 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=274#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:29:11 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=274
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Style: Grunge Style ]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=274 0 Don’t make these XML mistakes http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=273 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=273#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=273 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.

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]]> http://www.buildsitenow.com/?feed=rss2&p=273 0 Good news for HTML5 video! http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=272 http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=272#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.buildsitenow.com/?p=272 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 groups like Mozilla had against using this codec, chances are that Firefox will soon be updated to use it. Then you’ll only need to save your videos in two formats: H.264 and Flash (for IE). And when IE 9 comes out, you will only need the one format.

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