OK, this article is not strictly design or development; more a guide to clearly think through the needs of your website/app.
As some of you know, I have been helping the rather lovely Chris Spooner of Line25, Spoon Graphics and the blog of Spoon Graphics. Because of the popularity, the servers would regularly fall over. However, throwing money at the problem is not always the solution.
Over the last few weeks I have been helping with the rather splendid Mr Spooner’s blog.spoongraphics.co.uk. Aside from the obvious problems with database load on such a high traffic website, cache was also playing a big part in problems. Continue Reading »
Oh yes! HTML5 is coming along nicely. While we are waiting for IE9 to decide whether they are supporting HTML5 or not (see here and here) I have been looking at a wonderful new feature that can help make content intensive pages load nicely. Continue Reading »
Ahh, that old chestnut! I too have searched around in the past to find a solution for this. There are many solutions such as the use of JavaScript, but I dont want to use that to keep page loads down. Continue Reading »