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Andy Killen (13 Posts)
So, your post went viral, what now?
Every now and then you might find that pot of gold, that magic moment when one of your pages goes viral. That amazing moment when you are the top of the Google listings for SERP…
Where should I really be sharing?
Social networking is constantly evolving. In many cases, what was cool two years ago is now next to worthless. For example ‘the Digg effect‘ used to be massive and could really make a big difference…
Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed
Programming for speed is not what most coders think of. What they tend to consider first, and usually only, is getting it working. Sometimes people will talk of refactoring to reduce the amount of code,…
These aren’t the fonts you’re looking for…
The other day I was on location with a customer, and as they are a secure site I was not allowed to bring my laptop any further than the security locker at the font desk….
Website Speed Part 3 – Caching WordPress
As so many people have WordPress installed, I thought I would share with you a key technique integral to WordPress that will help your website speed. W3 Total Cache is a dream plugin for achieving…
Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web
This is the second part of our website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s stunning look and feel.
Images can make or break a website, whether that be adding a humanist feel to a site, adding animation and mouse over effects or finalizing that amazing design that just can’t be achieved with CSS alone. Yet all these images could cost the biggest price of any website, loss of visiting traffic. If a website takes too long to load or is unusable due to all of the images then it’s game over as the user will quickly go back to Google and search again.
Website Speed Part 1: Write More Efficient CSS
As part of my new position as CTO of SpeckyBoy I’ve decided to write a series of articles that will help you understand what it takes to make a truly fast site. As you may…
IE6 is Finally Being Laid to Rest!!!
WOOHOO! IE6 is officially being put out of it’s misery by it’s makers Microsoft and you can help in their efforts by adding the countdown banner for IE6 clients. This really is a true red…
How to Remove the Admin Bar from WordPress 3.1
You may have noticed that there is a new admin bar add to WordPress 3.1 that shows up when you are logged in as a subscriber or above. While I can see that this might…
