Yearly Archives: 2009

Website Performance Tips from Google

From the lads and lassies at Google come tips and guidelines on improving page speed. Well worth scanning trough! Happy testing, and thanks for the referral, Dan, Atg Top⇪

Are your Firefox passwords protected?

Do you click that handy “Remember” button every time you enter a username and password into a site in Firefox so it will miraculously be waiting for you next time? Did you know that Firefox does NOT automatically protect that … Continue reading

Tips from The CSS Anthology from SitePoint

In keeping with a long-held belief that you can learn something from anyone if you pay close-enough attention, I submit the following… I recently downloaded the sample chapters for SitePoint‘s CSS Anthology and, granted, it took me until page 78, … Continue reading

More Firefox Tips…

Have you ever noticed that when you are typing a previously visited URL in IE, the address bar automatically fills-in the “next step” of the URL? Meaning, if you previously visited the NY Times article  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/washington/27cnd-gonzales.html and started typing the … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Most of us probably have a template we use to start new HTML docs, but I thought Accesssify‘s MarkupMaker was a clever idea, and quite well implemented! * The anal-retentive in me couldn’t pass-up suggesting he add rel=”stylesheet” to the … Continue reading

A Couple More Firefox Tips…

Did you know… …you can highlight a word or phrase on a webpage then right-click the highlighted word or phrase to get a context menu with two useful options: Search Google for [highlighted word or phrase] – this performs a … Continue reading

Centered Horizontal Tabs with Just CSS

Yes, it’s an old article, but one I think well-worth revisiting! http://24ways.org/2005/centered-tabs-with-css How do you center a UL, when you would normally float your LIs? Well, Ethan Marcotte has written an article for 24 Ways that covers the basics and … Continue reading

Make Firefox Open with Multiple, Preset Homepages

Did you know you can make FF start with multiple preset tabs?  For instance, I like my FF to open with the first tab as my Yahoo! Mail, the second tab as my Gmail, and the third to as my … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

From the man himself, Mr. Jeremy Keith, comes a pretty cool collection of links and things… http://adactio.com/journal/1582 I’m not sure I fully understand this, neither how it works nor what one would use it for, but, hey, it’s a mash-up, … Continue reading

jQuery Performance Rules, per Dave Artz

The man, the myth, the legend, Dave Artz, lends his expertise to fine-tuning jQuery. I can’t tell you how much this changed my way of coding… Read, memorize, apply, repeat. Thanks to Ron Harris for sharing this! Happy coding, Atg … Continue reading