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Wednesday September 8, 2010
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Tuesday September 7, 2010
One question I get all the time is how to lay out a
form without using tables. It's great that these people have totally embraced
CSS for layout, but forms are
tabular data, so you
can use a table. But, an interesting article I read today shows that readers
are faster with top aligned labels in forms. And all you need to lay that style of form out is a <br> tag. Sweet!
Tuesday September 7, 2010
Widows and orphans can make a great design look amateurish. Learn how to spot widows and orphans in your web pages and learn solutions for fixing them.
Web Typography
Monday September 6, 2010
It used to be that when people worked on
speeding up their pages, they focused primarily on the
images and
multimedia, trying to make them as optimized and slim as possible. But
research has shown that as much as 80–90% of the time spent waiting for a page to load is waiting for numerous
HTTP requests to be processed by the server. By reducing the number of requests you make for page elements, you can greatly improve your page load times. And with the techniques mentioned in
this article, you won’t have to give up fancy design or images to do it.
Why Speed Up Pages