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Speeding Up Home Page RSS Feeds
Your home page is a great place to display a custom feed that shows your recent blog posts, tweets and news. If you work in PHP, then there’s a great tool called SimplePie that eases the creation of these custom RSS… Read the rest
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Extending SlideDeck – Part 2: Remembering The Current Slide
SlideDeck is a great tool for showing progress through a process. If your visitor abandons your SlideDeck halfway through (hey, it happens) you might want to remember where they left off. That way you can start the deck on that slide when they… Read the rest
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Extending SlideDeck – Part 1: Controlling The Deck
SlideDeck is an awesome tool for displaying information on a web page, but there are times when you might want to exercise additional control over your deck. Our lead developer Dave has done a great job with the more technical side of… Read the rest
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Top 5 Things to Consider When Choosing Shared Web Hosting
When it comes to hosting your website, there are three main options available to you: Dedicated Hosting (A physical computer just for you.), A Virtual Private Server (Where many dedicated-style servers are emulated in software and exist on one physical machine.), or Shared Hosting (Where… Read the rest
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Are CSS Sprites Really Faster?
Using CSS sprites isn’t a new technique, but I still see many developers not taking advantage of it. I’ve spoken before about the value of providing an experience to your user that makes sense, and we know that everyone appreciates speed. CSS sprites… Read the rest