ShortShip Archives: Web Development
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December 1, 2008
Post Onload Download for better user loadtime
Weee, well this is a fun one. It's a method for ensuring that your users get the best response time possible, particularly on their first time to your page (Which in most cases, is most of your traffic). It will increase your bandwith usage, but overall, should lead to a better first impression to users.
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January 27, 2008
Use Any Font On Your Site With sIFR
Most blogs/websites whenever they want to have some fancy text for headlines/nav usually resort to using an image. This becomes a burden whenever you want to change things, and isn’t as good for SEO as plain old text. Enter sIFR, a javascript method for using *any* font on a webpage with little to no work. [...]
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October 24, 2007
The Neverending Saga of Bad Webpage Decisions… Ad Placement and Impressions
Whenever I browse the internet, I am always on the lookout for good design, good UI, and other factors that make me say 'wow, someone was really thinking'.
Lately, however, I've been on the lookout for site behaviour that really gets on people's nerves. The kind of pages that can be a lesson to those of [...]
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September 5, 2007
10 Firefox Extensions For Website Owners
What? Yet another list of firefox extensions you just can't possibly live without? Well, yes. This list is the cream of the crop extensions you will certainly find use for if you operate a website.
If you are a firefox guru, you probably already have at least a couple of them, but maybe even you can [...]