How To: Clean and Optimize Your Blog’s Stylesheet (CSS)

September 26th, 2007

Web Design

This is the third of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Now that you’ve got your website code validated, another good practice to be in is to keep your stylesheet (CSS) as clean and optimal as possible. I try to do this at least once a [...]

How To: Verifying Your Blog Code is Valid

September 25th, 2007

Web Design

This is the second of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Once you’ve got your blog’s load time under control, it’s next time to go through and validate your blog’s code. Even if you are using a relatively unmodified WordPress theme that you got from someone [...]

Technology Talk – 09/05/2007

September 5th, 2007

Miscellaneous

I usually don’t do more than one technology talk a week, but a lot of great stuff is happening, so here is the second one in three days!

Daily Blog Tips has released a new WordPress Plugin called Homepage Excerpts. This plugin gives you a large number of options, but its primary function is [...]

Web Design: Optimizing Your CSS

March 31st, 2007

Web Design

Cascading Style Sheets have been a crucial part of web design for awhile now, as they improve your websites performance by allowing caching of your websites style information, avoiding the need for a hard refresh every time a page is loaded. 
I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up the code on this site, removing the [...]