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Speed Up Your Site: The Basics

Published on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:38:53

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: read more..

Make your menus pretty with CSS

Published on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:56:34

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: read more..

Tips for making a good contact form

Published on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:10:05

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. read more..

Top 10 sites to check for design inspiration

Published on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:08:59

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.. read more..

Why you need to hire a Designer for your website

Published on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:24:51

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 read more..

Starting your first business website

Published on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:35:02

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... read more..