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How to speed up WordPress and pass the Google Page Speed Test
Updated: Feb 2021 In order to speed up your website, you need to do the following 10 things. This will not only help you pass the Google Page Speed test but also make your site load under 3 seconds and your scores will be very high with sites like Pingdom and WebPageTest. These are not…
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Security certificates for speed and your customer’s peace of mind
If you sell anything online, transfer sensitive data, or you want your website to load faster, you need to have an SSL installed.
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Mobile Coding Cheat Sheet
This is the beginning of another cheat sheet, this time, for mobile coding. A mobile design is basically a miniature copy of your desktop designed site, usually displaying only the important information first, with links to the rest. Its design is fluid because it has to accommodate different sizes of mobile devices. Make sure you…
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Coding HTML Emails
If you haven’t coded for email clients, you’ll learn that you have to go back to tables and use a lot of repetitive inline CSS. The following is the gist of coding HTML emails: Use tables and inline CSS styling. Use basic HTML (old-school) styling attributes first. The only one to drop is the font…
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Refreshing & Formatting XML
In a recent client project, it called for videos with play lists. I used Longtail’s JW player to handle this. The setup required XML files for the play list. Having not worked that much with XML before, I ran into two problems which I eventually found a solution for. Problem 1: Making XML refresh Long…
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What web designers do
Some people are surprised at the amount of work, skill, talent, and time that goes into building a professional website. The following information will show you exactly what web designers do for almost every project. Research and Writing We first learn your industry through research & talking with you We create the appropriate content for…