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 | Speeding up your web pages requires more than just making smaller images. To compete with the professional sites out there, you need to pay attention to everything that can hurt your download speed. And the two featured articles in this newsletter talk about things that designers do that can cause your pages to load much more slowly. Plus, I take a look at WYSIWYG and whether you’re really getting what you think you’re getting Every week in the forum we get several pleas for help. Sometimes I have answers but not always. If you've ever been helped by someone else, why not take a few minutes to pop into the Web Design forum or the HTML / XML forum and "pay it forward." Please forward this newsletter, in its entirety, to your colleagues, coworkers and friends, anyone you think would like to learn more about web design, HTML, and web development. | |
Where You Put Your Scripts Could Be Hurting Your Pages
A common mistake that many web developers make is to put all their JavaScript in the HEAD of the document. In fact, in a poll I did last year, 68% of respondents said they put all scripts in the HEAD. This is what we were taught, but it can affect the speed of pages downloading. Instead, get in the habit of putting your scripts last. This article explains why this is important and gives some tips for how to adjust your scripts so that they will work even if they are loaded last.
| CSS Filters and Why to Avoid Them
Many web designers desperate to get features like CSS transitions, shadows, and opacity into Internet Explorer have resorted to using a feature that Microsoft introduced to IE 4 and ultimately removed from IE 9—CSS filters. Learn more about this IE features and why you should avoid them, even if you are tempted.
| WYSIWYG Editors—I Still Think You Should Know HTML
WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get” and there are a lot of web editors that claim to provide that. While I'm not convinced that they really can deliver WYSIWYG 100%, they do make it much easier to build web pages if you don't know HTML. But anyone who has read my site for a while knows how I feel about WYSIWYG vs writing HTML directly.
| Poll: WYSIWYG or not in 2012?
I've been asking this question of my readers every few years to see how opinions about WYSIWYG editors change (or not) over time. What do you think? Do you prefer a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor or do you write HTML directly? If you do both, just choose the one you tend to start a design with. Vote Now View Results
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