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4 Free CDNs for a Faster Website

A content delivery network (CDN) increases page loading speed by decreasing latency, but did you know there are a handful of wicked-fast, free CDNs out there hosting popular libraries like Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery and Font Awesome? Well, there are. Here are 4 of them compiled by our friends at jHost. What is a CDN? A …

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SMTP for WordPress Email Notifications

Many PHP websites and web applications, including WordPress, send notification email via PHP mail()–a function which creates server-generated emails. Unfortunately, that’s exactly how spammers do it too. Configure WordPress to use SMTP instead to take the strain off your web server and increase deliverability. A study last year found that 19% of all permission-based email …

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A Brief History of IE Compatibility Mode

Microsoft introduced “Compatibility Mode” to allow really old websites built for Internet Explorer (IE) to display correctly in more standards-compliant versions. Since then, IE users and web designers have had the almost impossible challenge of “backwards compatibility.” Here’s a brief history of how we got stuck with Compatibility Mode.

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6 Filters for Better Analytics Reports

Six Google Analytics filters to help filter out the noise and build better analytics reports.

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SPDY: Experimental Protocol for a Faster Web

SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a protocol developed by Google for web content delivery. SPDY manipulates web traffic, with particular goals of reducing web page load latency and improving web security. As part of the “Let’s make the web faster” initiative, Google is experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One …

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WordPress 3.7 Key Changes

WordPress.org today announced the debut of WordPress 3.7. This latest version is a feature and bug-fix release for self-hosted WordPress sites. Dubbed “Basie” in honor of American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie, WordPress 3.7 is the first release that uses the company’s new plugin-first development process that results in a much a quicker development …

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WordPress 3.6 Released

Last night, the latest version of WordPress (3.6) was released to the public. Besides a lot of bug and security fixes, the update comes with a few much anticipated updates. Let’s take a look before you backup and upgrade to WordPress 3.6. New Default Theme, “Twenty Thirteen” The new default theme puts focus on your …

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A Quick Web Developer Joke

I just heard the funniest web developer joke. I just had to share it. “A web developer’s wife asks him to go to the store…

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Speed up WordPress via jQuery

I think WordPress is just awesome, but before we get into an argument, let’s take a look at how just about anyone can speed up with WordPress site simply by how they handle the world’s most popular JavaScript library, jQuery. Brace yourself. This is gonna get nerdy. Don’t use <script> to jQuery in your header.php …

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Why Website Max Width 960px?

Responsive websites are here to stay, but why do they always have a max-width of 960px? Isn’t that SO 2009?! Should we get away from the 960 standard width in lieu of a max-width of more like 1140px? The answer is nerdy, but interesting for you math lovers. Today, the most common maximum screen resolution …

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Developer VS Designer

To a web developer, the problem is a clumsy stacking of concurrently loading processes, interfering with the smooth functioning of JavaScript. To a web designer, the problem is the idea sucks.

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Let there be Web Departments

In many businesses, the website is managed by either the marketing or IT departments. Unfortunately, neither are really best suited for this initiative and inevitably it leads to a turf war where the only casualty is the website itself. Your website is not a bastard of your brochures, nor an outgrowth of your group calendar. …

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