There are many useful tips on the web on how to optimize your Wordpress blog. Some of them are good but they are hard to implement by the average user. From my blogging experience I want to share with you the tips that can make your site faster. I will start with optimizing the template file because this is the first important step in speeding your Wordpress blog. So we will have a pre Wordpress optimization (XHTML/CSS) and the Wordpress optimization section. Continue »

Following the first article about CSS best practices, these next lines will contain information about a related field and topic - (X)HTML. The practices are not a must in order to write (X)HTML, but they are needed if you want to write good quality code. Now, let’s jump to the actual guidelines. Continue »

I know that for many of you this is not an interesting topic although it should. It should because the perception of the title is the first interaction between your visitor and your content. So, a wiser thing is to pay attention to every detail regarding the post title. Continue »

As you know, optimizing your site’s response time is one of the most popular topics regarding website design and development. And one of the elements that can be optimized in a site is CSS. Let’s take a look and see what ways of optimizing and compressing CSS code are available.

For this purpose of showing the ways to optimize CSS code I picked up a CSS file from Dave Shea’s CSS Zen Garden. It was the best choice because the CSS code was somehow in the standard coding style way. So, based on the following CSS code we will try to see how can we improve our website performance by optimizing and compressing CSS code. Continue »

In this post I will explain one common HTML element used in many websites. The element that I’m talking about is: FIELDSET linked closely with LEGEND. For a standard definition I will cite W3C.

The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related controls and labels. Grouping controls makes it easier for users to understand their purpose. The proper use of this element makes documents more accessible.

The LEGEND element allows authors to assign a caption to a FIELDSET. The legend improves accessibility when the FIELDSET is rendered non-visually.

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I will first define CSS in order to start this article right. CSS is Everything. Seriously, for many web designers CSS is the beginning in a design world that will be followed by Javascript and understanding of server-side scripting. In order to become a decent web designer, one must know how to work with CSS. And a good way is to know the good practices in the CSS area. So let’s start showcasing the good approaches in CSS.
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