Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

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First lets clear up what is a HTTP request. Every time a web browser downloads/fetches a file from the web a new request is made to the server. It can either be an image, a page, CSS or Javascript file etc. This means that for every file the browser has to send a request to the server and the server sends a response in return.

With using fancy transparent graphics on your website you can easily increase the loading times and also the bandwidth consumption. Would you want to look at a site that’s loading for more than a few seconds? Don’t think so. Pngcrush to the rescue!

Pngcrush is a tool that helps you in making your PNG files smaller in size while preserving the quality. It’s a command line optimizer meant for LINUX or UNIX environments. You can even run it in a MSDOS window. It tries out different compression methods and with the best found solution it then compresses your file to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream.

Every website or blog owner should always try to find new ways of making their site faster and consume less server resources. This is especially important if you’re generating high traffic. Would you want to look at a site that’s loading for several seconds with every click you make? Here’s one simple solution.

This tip is extremely helpful if your articles have several images in them. Picture it this way – every time you open up an article consisting of several high-quality images (especially if you’re posting many “list posts”) all the images would have to be fetched from the server. This increases load times and also your bandwidth, what most hosting providers usually limit.

If you’re into web development these are the tools to make your work much easier. Need to debug your code? Increase your websites performance? Or want to simplify your everyday work? With these 7 Firefox add-ons you can accomplish that.

After learning about transparency and making round corners with CSS3 this article will be about using shadows. Shadows can be assigned to boxes or texts and we’ll cover them both.