Category Archives: performance

Today’s Readings

A couple good reads from Ajaxian recently on new Google features: Speed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team A busy Chrome week: Extensions, Web Sockets, and more This post seemed intriguing, until I actually … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites?  Okay, good.  Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients?  Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A rather good article comes from 24Ways about what makes a website successful.  My fave comment is “Do you ask your clients why they have a website?”  When I first started in this business, if anyone asked me about making … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Some times it seems like these collections are a complete mess of topics, truly representing the title “non-contextually speaking”, while other times it seems that all the interesting articles out there are about a single topic… Well, today’s readings definitely … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Been a while, eh?  How you all doing?  What a crazy couple weeks it’s been, but, since I find myself oddly wide-awake at 4am, I figured why not catch up on my RSS reading and blog writing, right?  So here … Continue reading

jQuery.concrete – a New Library, and Approach, to Applying JS

After reading the Ajaxian article about jQuery.concrete, I was interested in learning more, so I opened the tutorial (note that while you are viewing the tutorial that there is a “Next >>” link at the top next to the page … Continue reading

Steve Souders Takes on Website Performance and @font-face

Once again Steve Souders proves why he is the go-to source for website performance in this in-depth study on how @font-face affects website performance. The main obstacles are FOUT (in FF) and what I will call a “page-blocker” in IE … Continue reading

A Valid XHTML & CSS Lightbox (no JavaScript)

Ok, I know this is slightly old, and I know there have been a few posts about it, but seriously, how can this have not completely revolutionized the way EVERYBODY does lightbox-style overlays??? The perfect combination of POSH and fairly-basic … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

This will be a sporadic post, while I scramble though a week+ of unread RSS feeds, catching up from time spent developing and launching the latest client launch for the UX Test Kitchen… If you have ever tried to create … Continue reading

Improve your CSS Minification by Alphabetizing

I personally like my CSS declarations grouped together by location within the site (all the CSS for my Home grouped together, all the CSS for my Contact page grouped together, etc.), but this article about alphabetizing your CSS from Ajaxian … Continue reading