With the release of Yahoo’s YSlow plugin for Firefox, web developers are better able to see how fast their web sites are loading, and improve this load time with some nifty server-side adjustments and on-page changes.

In a series of posts I will be discussing some of these elements, starting this week with caching page elements to reduce server load and make pages load faster. (more…)

A must for all web designers and app programmers is FireFox with a selection of time-saving and handy extensions that can increase your productivity.

Highlight errors in coding, validate HTML/CSS, inspect DOM, quickly view your pages with elements enabled/disabled with a selection of FireFox web development extensions. The following article contains a list of 30 web development extensions for FireFox. (more…)

Web stats have become increasingly more important in recent years. For those engaged in Adword/PPC campaigns, tracking clicks and website usage is a must.

The solution to this has been web analytics packages such as Google Analytics or the soon to be launched Microsoft Gatineau. There’s no doubting that Google Analytics has a nice interface to display your website data. However there is an inherent problem with using these free analytics programs provided by such companies as Google. (more…)