A topic I’ve been delving into lately is writing efficient CSS. Using shorthands, inheritances, and so on, I was able to streamline my CSS file from 7.8KB to 7KB. That’s a shaving of 800bytes, and while it won’t be noticable, it’ll certainly help. With sites that are getting larger and larger, this kind of knowledge…

A bunch of goodies for us web design geeks (also a way for me to remember to check back to these pages so I can properly read them when I’m not busy): Digital Web Magazine – Keep It Simple: Keep CSS Simple CSS Resources courtesy of Zeldman Download and install multiple versions of IE easily…

If there’s one thing that is confusing to a web designer is why is text on a webpage and on a myriad of setups, so difficult to implement consistently across every visitor’s screen? After all, you could use a default font size of 75% or 0.75em or 11px and it would display correctly in one…

While perusing the excellent Website Analyzer tool to check loading speeds, and filesizes of certain elements, I saw that this site could use some optimization, even though I tried to keep everything to a minimum (images, CSS, etc.) Then I remember you can gzip pages server-side, and serve it to visitors compressed, thus increasing speeds…