Performance Optimization Made Quick and Simple

Posted February 8th, 2010 in Performance 2 Comments

Optimizing your site’s performance doesn’t have to be very difficult. Take this site for example. Typically, I take care of optimization as part of the build process. However, for the sake of demonstration, I thought this time around I’d take care of each step by itself, using freely available tools where applicable.

First off was setting expires tags and turning gzipping on. Since I’ve done this in too many .htaccess files to count, this was simply a copy/paste job with very little tweaking necessary. More

Feb 1 2010

Changing Things Up

After a very long, drawn out design/build process, I finally decided to just get it over with and push the new design live (as anyone not reading this in their RSS reader can see).

Jan 4 2010

The Power of Dissonance

There’s a certain level of comfort in surrounding yourself with people like yourself. Comfort, however, is not often equal to progress. When it comes to expanding your mind to new possibilities and advancing your knowledge and skills, a little dissonance goes a long way.