Archive for May, 2008
Tools: How To Test Your Site Performance
Want to speed up your web site? The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.
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Graphics: Free Smashing Vector Icon Set - Milky
This icon set of Milky is designed in EPS 8 vector format, including 48×48 and 64×64 PNG image and SVG files.
Milky will be released on a weekly basic. Every week there will be added more 15 icons into the set. So how many icons does Milky have in total? Well, the author is not sure, maybe the set of Milky will have up to dozens or few hundreds or few thousands (hopefully) of icons. Grab the RSS to stay updated with the latest ones.
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Self-Marketing: Outstanding Portfolio Ideas in 3D
What is the difference between you and the next webworker? Why should we consider you for this job? What are your qualifications? These are questions you probably have heard before en mass. Now it is time to boost yourself by a new and outstanding portfolio prasentation. We have collected some good ideas found at flashmo. They are easy to use with a xml file.
3D Thumbnail Box
Thumbnails rotate and zoom smothly in and our if you go over them.
Related categories: Tags: 3d, inspiration
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Tools: Improve Site Performance By Combining Images
CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X and Y coorindates. Having assigned this generated image to relevant page elements the background-position CSS property can then be used to shift the visible area to the required component image.
This technique can be very effective for improving site performance, particularly in situations where many small images, such as menu icons, are used. The Yahoo! home page, for example, employs the technique for exactly this.
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SEO: What is a Google Ranking Worth to You?
Patrick runs a Bingo Card Creator website which recently ranked #5 in Google for bingo cards.
- A #5 ranking sent him 6,000 unique visitors per month.
- A #1 spot, using the leaked AOL search data (referenced later in this document), is worth 8.5 times what #5 is. 6,000 * 8.5 = ~50,000 uniques per month
- His site currently makes $40 for every 1,000 pageviews.
- His estimated income from ranking #1 for [bingo cards]: $2,000 a month.
You could do this type of calculation for any keyword you rank for that has significant search volume. You can use some of the other data points listed in the knowte to create similar calculations - even if you do not rank yet.
SEO: How To Get Backlinks for Hotlinked Images
Website publisher can start breathing again. People who link to your images increase your own traffic rates highly. But what if you click on an image to get the graphicaddress and it will open a piece of code instead ? This will give you backlinks! This would make sense, because many users are not very common with html and will use that code.
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