Miscellaneous Other Website Maintenance

September 28th, 2007

Web Design

This is the fifth of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
In addition to the website maintenance tips covered in the first four posts of this series, there are a few other things that can be done to help keep your site running smoothly. Here [...]

How To: Testing Your Blog in Multiple Web Browsers

September 27th, 2007

Web Design

This is the fourth of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Once you’ve gone through and adjusted your code, it’s a good idea to follow up your changes with a quick browser check. Instead of manually downloading and installing a bunch of different web browsers, [...]

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 [...]

How To: Determing Your Blog’s Load Time

September 24th, 2007

Web Design

This is the first of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance. 
If you run a lower traffic blog and are looking to increase your readership, there are several things you can do to help people find your blog.   The problem is, once they’ve found your website, [...]