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Minify/Compress CSS using PHP

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Google recently announced that site speed may be the next ranking factor. With this in mind I am going to explain how to minify/compress your CSS files using PHP. Many site use a few different CSS files to format their website, each one of these files requires a HTTP requests which an slow things down.

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Time Spent On A Website

Friday, December 19th, 2008

How long do you spend looking at a page on a website. For the average user, they will spend less than 40 seconds looking at content on a page. What lesson can you learn from this? Simple, try not to jam your pages with too much text. Pages that have charts, graphs, or images along with some text will be more appealing to your website users. The next time you are at a website, think about the time you spend on each page and relate that to your website.

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Three Design Priorities

Monday, December 8th, 2008

For everyone who has created a website in the last 15 years, three things are always the same. If these three priorities are not followed it could destroy any business website. Follow these simply design priorities and you will be set:
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