Archive for the 'Secrets' category

Deploy Your Hello Bar Anywhere!

We recently launched Hello Bar, a great new web toolbar for grabbing your visitors’ attention. Hello Bar is meant to be an easy to setup, easy to maintain and easy to deploy solution for setting… More

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… More

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… More

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… More

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… More

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… More