Image by zerok via Flickr Yahoo recently updated one of their tools for grading and optimizing websites. It's called YSlow, and it checks your site for several different decisions and tools which you (or your web designer) may have implemented. YSlow is an add on to the Firebug tool which is a Firefox extension - so at this point, you can't run it in any other browser, however both Firefox and Firebug are free tools so there is no cost to you other than time. YSlow is nice because it … [Read more...]
posted on April 23, 2009 by
Optimize Your Website For Speed
Image by tirebiterz via Flickr How do you increase the speed and response of your web site? Good question. We've talked about it some in the past, but the people at Inside CRM have provided a list of 50 items. While this can help with the loading of your site, it also takes someone who knows how to implement these changes. One other thing to check on is how will this affect the other aspects of your web site? For example: Will modifying your web site affect how users use your … [Read more...]
posted on April 12, 2009 by
How fast do changes take affect online?
Image via Wikipedia People often want to know how fast to changes occur on-line. They may be used to traditional print advertisign, such as newspaper and magazine, in which changes to an ad might take weeks or months to be seen. Even worse, consider wanting to change some text in your phone book ad. If you see an error (imagine a wrong phone number), or want to make a change the week your book comes out, it will take a twelve long months to update your ad. On-line, things can occur … [Read more...]
posted on March 23, 2009 by
Compliments Can Come From Odd Places
The best compliments come from people you'd never expect them. Recently, for one of my clients, I was looking at some of his competitors. I wanted to get a feel for what they were doing, and see how my client compared. One of them has on their site "No, we do not have a fancy drop-down program that lets you choose from our other showcase designs and mix and match. That would cost lots of money". Well when looking at the competition field, he is clearly referencing the Options Showcase page … [Read more...]