Getting inspiration for new projects and layouts can be difficult. However, there are several high-quality sites dedicated to the graphics, code, colours, fonts that can make your website stand out from the crowd.

Smashing Magazine provides links to wordpress themes, web design tips and tricks and graphics. (more…)

For those who use the Yahoo YSlow plugin for Firebug, speeding up their websites is obviously an issue worth addressing. (more…)

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…)