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1. Adding a dynamic map to your sitemap using google's API
This tutorial will let you show a street map of anywhere in the world, but letting google do it for you! This is a complicated tutorial if you dont understand the whole decimal thing, but if you have trouble, ask on the shoutbox...
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| Ratings: | Last Updated: | 2006-07-17 |
How to achieve accessibility standards - it's more than what you think
Web Standards and Accessibility There are some common misconceptions that web standards == accessibility, which is far from the truth. Valid xhtml / html / css / whatever does not equate to accessible. An accessible site has to match a whole other set of guidelines which have nothing to do with closing your br tags. Before you're developing your site Keep accessibility in mind when you're designing. Figure out where you're going to put things like captions. Make sure your forms are going to
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10 basic tests to check your website for accessibility
The DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) says that websites must be made accessible to blind and disabled people. So how can you check that your website actually has good accessibility? There are a number of basic tests you can make to address some of the main accessibility issues.
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10 ways to speed up the download time of your web pages
Do you like to wait for pages to download? Neither do your site users. Read on and find out how to speed up that download time...
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Extreme Optimisation
Extreme HTML optimisation is a mindset that many web designers are in, where “every byte counts.” Here I’m going to give you an overview of many different methods to cut off a few bytes off each element of your site. Most of these will speed up your site, but make it a little harder on you to maintain. Some practices that have been in use for a while are very dangerous, like leaving out end tags for instance. I have left those tips to the bottom, with reasons why they shouldn’t be use
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Optimising Images
Optimising images for the web is a tricky business. You have to get the right balance between filesize and picture quality. It is an essential step though. Look at any webpage, and you will see that most of its load time comes from images. Your website will be needlessly slow if you don't drop the sizes of these images. There are three key areas where bytes can be shaved off your graphics: bit depth (number of colours), resolution, and dimension. Here I'm going to show you the practicalities
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Basic Optimisation
So you've decided to speed your site up? Great. It's a part of designing websites that most people tend to skip. First off, a word of warning: once you start to optimise, it's hard to stop. It often becomes an obsession. But that's okay, you'll be a far better designer afterwards. The faster your page, the more work you put into it, and further to that, the more work it shows you put into it.
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| Ratings: | Last Updated: | 2006-07-17 |