Design Your Website For Speed - Use The Height And Width Tags
March 6, 2008 by 
cindy
If you want to improve your visitors overall experience of your website, you need to look into improving the speed of the server response time for your clients and visitors.
Your visitors may not realize the extra work you have done, but they will appreciate it.
Give The Size Of Your Images
When you decide to design your website for speed, one of the best ways to do this is to properly use the height and width tags with your images.
This is an important item that webmasters tend to overlook.
Usually a webmaster will make sure:
- to use the same image multiple times,
- to not have an identical image with different names.
But seldom will a webmaster look at the tags for the size of the images. Read more
Design Your Website For Speed – Use A Forward Slash On Your Links
March 5, 2008 by cindy
Search engines run on all sorts of codes. They do their jobs marvelously.
So marvelously in fact that we get used to them working all by themselves. We forget that they need these codes to work properly. And sometimes they need us to tell them what to do or they can make mistakes.
Search Engines Can Figure Some Things Out
When a server opens a link written like this for example “http://cindyking.biz” it needs a fraction of a second to figure out what kind of location it contains.
The search engines will figure this out all by themselves. But there is actually something it needs that is missing in this example.
- Something very tiny and insignificant to us.
- But important to the search engines.
What is it? Read more
Design Your Website For Speed - Reduce the HTTP Requests
March 4, 2008 by cindy
Website speed affects your visitors experience to your website. If your visitor has to wait too long to see what he has come to see, you will feel the results.
There are a few tricks to optimizing speed.
Let’s look at an obvious one:
How It Works
When someone goes to your website for the first time, every object on the page they visit will be sent from your server to the user’s computer.
On future visits their computer will need to make a round trip to your server to identify everything that was not stored on their computer during the previous visits.
The web browser stores some files on your PC and will only download these again when you have told it to do so.
There Are Options
Some download options for your web browser are: Read more
Design Your Website For Speed - Optimize Your Cascading Style Sheets
March 3, 2008 by cindy
Designing your website for speed keeps all of your visitors happy. You never know what sort of a connection your visitors are using. They may be using mobile phones, their blackberry or even a old modem connection.
The speed at which your websites loads on their browser is important to your website’s success.
Cascading Style Sheets
When you decide to design your site for speed, one important consideration is the Cascading Style Sheets that can help you speed the server response time for your clients.
Cascading Style Sheets make websites much more efficient. They allow the browsers to cache style-related information from the .css file directly so that information does not need to be downloaded every time the users load a page.
Optimize Your CSS Code
Even if Style Sheets are naturally more efficient than HTML tables you can still optimize the CSS code to make your website cleaner and faster. Read more
Website Design For International Markets
February 13, 2008 by cindy
Last Updated 17 August 2008
You need good web design for good online results
For any website aimed at an international audience, be it a personal blog or a corporation website, your web design is even more critical for acceptance.
Good website design can be the difference between a first time visitors leaving after a couple of seconds or adding your site to their favorites.
Here are seven tips to help improve your design: Read more
