10 Quick Tips For Making Your Large Graphics Load Faster

September 21st, 2008 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

There’s nothing worse then having to sit and wait while the images are loading on your webpages. We’ve become a society of convenience with microwaves, instant soup and lightening fast servers. We want things in the blink of an eye.

Your visitors expect nothing less when they land on your site. You’ve only got a couple of seconds before they hit that back button…. and they are gone… to a faster site that will give them the information they want instantly!

Here are 10 quick tips for decreasing the load time on your graphics.

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Get Specific with Your CSS Styles

March 7th, 2008 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials 1 Comment »

Specificity is a word that’s even more difficult to understand than it is to pronounce! But until you’ve mastered the concept, you’ll never really understand how your CSS style rules are being applied. In this article, Paul presents the facts about specificity clearly, so you can apply them to your own CSS today.

Other than being the C in the acronym CSS, the fact that style sheets are described as “cascading” refers to an important, if complex, part of the way styles are applied to the elements in a document. It’s called the CSS cascade because style declarations cascade down to elements from many origins. Read the rest of this entry »

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