One of those annoying little quirks you run into when checking the relative loading speed of your site. Expire headers will let your browser know if the current file is up-to-date or if it needs to be re-downloaded. If the file hasn’t changed there’s no sense in downloading the file again, thus, saving a little time in the loading of the page. This could apply to your CSS, images, movies and other media.
Read more…Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something troublesome about clicking on the text “Remember me” when attempting to log into a website only to discover that someone hasn’t taken the time to associate the text to the checkbox with a label tag. Granted, it doesn’t really harm the functionality of the site, but it does cause me to stop and fume for a moment over having to actually click on the tiny little checkbox instead.
Read more…Designing and developing a marketing email or a newsletter is a challenge. A lot of designers don’t realize that email clients that run on your machine go beyond what you might call “unfriendly”. In fact, it’s safe to say that as far as HTML content is concerned, they are stuck in the 80′s. Webmail clients aren’t much better. AOL Webmail, GMail, Yahoo and all of their siblings have to safeguard the end-user’s security so they keep a tight grip on the content being displayed when the email is opened. Just keep a few basics in mind and you should be able to deliver some high-quality emails that will actually be seen and read by your subscribers.
Read more…This is a follow-up from this post: SEO Friendly Flex and AS3
I was working on a project that was in all flash. It appears that this, all flash, site will never go live so there’s no sense in waiting any more to share what I have.
Ultimately since search engines like Google can, at most, just index the text of a flash site I figure there has to be something that myself, as a developer, can do to improve the way the site gets indexed while at the same time giving the end-user the experience they are intended to have.
Read more…I know that Google, for instance, “can” index flash sites. I did read, however, that it really only get’s the text from the elements in the flash. Which is effective to an extent and certainly better than nothing at all. I don’t think this is really the best way for your flash sites to be indexed.
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