Random Web Development and Web Designer Tips

kela — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:23 +0000

More Web Development and Web Designer Tips added every day. Come back Soon...

Close button script.

images/but_close.gif" border="0" width="74" height="18" vspace="10" alt="CLOSE">

Some browsers will close only window if it was open as pop-up.

Show text inside search box.

onfocus="this.value=''" type="text" value="some text" />
onfocus="this.select()" type="text" value="some text" />

This gives the user to amend text that they have put in, without having to rewrite it completely if they go back to the box.

Div left – Div Right.

some text on the right

some text on the left

Advise it to keep it less then 100% total width.

Frame Kill
Copy this code and paste it between the and tags of your page (after “title”)

This code makes your Web page stay in its own full screen window.

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/Kill’frames.htm

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Submitted by reader:

* Minimize HTTP Requests
* Use a Content Delivery Network
* Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header
* Gzip Components
* Put Stylesheets at the Top
* Put Scripts at the Bottom
* Avoid CSS Expressions
* Make JavaScript and CSS External
* Reduce DNS Lookups
* Minify JavaScript and CSS
* Avoid Redirects
* Remove Duplicate Scripts
* Configure ETags
* Make Ajax Cacheable
* Flush the Buffer Early
* Use GET for AJAX Requests
* Post-load Components
* Preload Components
* Reduce the Number of DOM Elements
* Split Components Across Domains
* Minimize the Number of iframes
* No 404s
* Reduce Cookie Size
* Use Cookie-free Domains for Components
* Minimize DOM Access
* Develop Smart Event Handlers
* Choose over @import
* Avoid Filters
* Optimize Images
* Optimize CSS Sprites
* Don’t Scale Images in HTML
* Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable
* Keep Components under 25K
* Pack Components into a Multipart Document

Share and Enjoy: