Brightscape Blog

Over the past few years, brightscape.net have produced a number of useful articles and tips for web developers.

In general this has covered server-side caching, mod_rewrite rules and optimizing CSS files.

Below is a round-up of the most popular articles that people still email me about from time-to-time. We aim to bring more useful articles over the coming months so feel free to ask if you want to see a specific topic covered on the blog. Read the rest of this entry »

An factor worth consideration in web development is page size. With many users using broadband connections, this is becoming less of a problem. However, the difference in achievable speeds is still significant in some countries, so keeping page sizes to a minimum is still advisable.

The purpose of this article is to make your pages load as fast as possible by compressing jQuery even further than by using standard packing methods. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past few months I’ve compiled some lists of useful tutorials and tools for adding JavaScript functionality to your web sites with jQuery.

Today I’m highlighting another resource for the web developer looking to incorporate jQuery into their web projects.

Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques is a book aimed at web developers who have a good grounding in HTML and CSS. However, the book doesn’t assume previous knowledge of JavaScript frameworks, or jQuery specifically. Readers however should be familiar with JavaScript syntax. Read the rest of this entry »