For this blog, I decided to give my visitors yet another theme to choose from: the Dairy theme. This theme is coded with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 standards, and thus it is best viewed with the latest browser versions.
Same as the other 3 themes available for this blog, the Dairy theme has been extensively customized, modified, enhanced with new features and functionality, and fixed to fit this blog. Continue Reading »
The speed and performance of your Website has quickly become one of the most definitive aspects of successful blogging. As we have all experienced, our society today is rapidly becoming obsessed with speed and instant gratification. With the internet so heavily involved in our everyday lives, the speed and performance of your Websites is essential to holding readership and gaining more traffic. Continue Reading »
The tips in this post are specific to WordPress. Before tackling the tips here, I advice you to implement as many related tips from my previous post. The previous post constitutes the foundation for this tutorial.
It is obvious, everyone hates a slow Website. Performance is a key factor for any successful Website including WordPress. Continue Reading »
The tips of this post are general and can be applied to any type of Website be it dynamic or static. In my next post, I will specifically discuss how to speed up a WordPress Website.
Why is my Website slow? is a popular question and is a vital issue. A good Website should never compromise on the user´s experience. Continue Reading »
Did you know!
- You can significantly speed up a dynamic Website´s load time with caching.
- For a static Website, browsers cache the content on the client´s computer, in memory and on disk. Wikipedia…
Web caching is caching of Web documents to improve performance, reduce bandwidth consumption and server load. Web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met. Continue Reading »
HTTP compression is a capability that can be built into Web servers and browsers to make better use of available bandwidth, and provide faster transmission speeds between both. The most common compression are gzip and deflate. More from Wikipedia…
HTTP Compression saves bandwidth usage and may speed up a Website loading time by reducing the amount of data sent. Continue Reading »
WordPress 2.6 and above has a new feature which is the posts and page revision. WordPress automatically creates revisions of your posts or pages. Whenever you save a post or a page, the old version is retained so you can revert back at any time. Older revisions are never deleted so you always have a full history of all changes. Continue Reading »
My second post in this series. It is a handy list, a one stop shop, of the best Free Website speed check tools that a Web developer/Web designer needs. There are many online tools, but in my opinion these are the best. My favorite ones are the first three. All links are External.
It means how fast a Website loads. Continue Reading »
You probably, like in my case, spent many hours to search for a nice WordPress theme for your Website. You chose a theme that is valid (or mostly with some minor tweaks) for CSS and HTML, and compliant with the accessibility standards (or mostly at least) as required by Section 508 law, and suggested by the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Continue Reading »
