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Website Speed Part 2:  Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

This is the second part the 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…

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Walking the path of a web designer is one challenging road. There are many techniques to be studied, and the vast wealth of knowledge available can just slightly ease the…

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

The ever-changing culture of web design has grown into a wild array of sub-standards. Over 20 years now, designers from all over the world have contributed their brilliant ideas to…

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

A CSS framework is a piece of software that has a lot of options for you to use in your HTML development, potentially making it faster and easier for you…

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

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…

IE6 is Finally Being Laid to Rest

IE6 is Finally Being Laid to Rest

WOOHOO! IE6 is officially being put out of its misery by its makers Microsoft and you can help in their efforts by adding the countdown banner for IE6 clients. This…

When the Web & Real-Life Collide: Creative Uses of Internet Symbolism in Daily Life

When the Web & Real-Life Collide: Creative Uses of Internet Symbolism in Daily Life

We are so used to online reality that we even manage to transfer it into our real life. On a subconscious level people utilize Internet symbols in decor and interior…

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Having spoken with many freelance web and graphic designers over the years, I can say I have heard some extraordinary tales. The path from freelancer to single business is an…

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Speculative, or ‘Spec”’, work is in hot debate at the moment in the design industry. Design contest websites in particular have created a furore of debate over freelancers working initially…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

For years the web has been a static development block for housing information. It hasn’t been up until recently that micro-format designs have been released into the semantic web. These…

Tips for Compromising between Designers and Developers

Tips for Compromising between Designers and Developers

In the real world, designers and developers are constantly battling it out over projects. Between two lighthearted developers are the crew who simply make the website work while designers add…

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?