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 | A CDN or content delivery network may seem like overkill to you now, if you even know what it is. But trust me, even if you have a small site with few visitors, you may be able to take advantage of smart network caching to keep your site loading quickly. And fast sites are more attractive to customers than slow sites are. I've also updated my article on business blogging to help you get the most out of this type of web writing. And you can learn how to use a meta tag to redirect users to a new location. 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. | |
A CDN Can Help Speed Up Your Site
Many small businesses think that a content delivery network or CDN (if they even think of them) is something only large websites use, but a CDN can be useful for any site that uses scripting libraries like jQuery. And if your customer base is worldwide, your site might benefit from a CDN for your content as well. Learn more about CDNs and how to decide if your site can benefit from them.
| Blogs Can Add Depth to a Business
Weblogs are a tool that an online business can use to improve their website and make their company more accessible to customers. There are many good reasons a company needs a blog and this article explains some of the ways you can use a blog to improve your business.
| Using Meta Tags to Refresh and Redirect
Creating dynamic web pages that change or move or otherwise do something is something that most web designers want to build at some point in their careers. And one of the first ways most of us got into dynamic pages was with the meta refresh tag. This is an HTML meta tag that will either reload the current page from the server or send the browser to an entirely new URL. But while these redirects are commonly used, there are dangers in using them. Search engines can see them as spam and ban your site, they can cause problems in some browsers especially when customers are trying to move back to the previous page, and you can use other technology like PHP or JavaScript to redirect as well.
| Don't Forget to Vote in the Readers' Choice Awards
 There are a lot of categories, but there is only one week left to vote for your favorites. You can vote once every 24 hours for your favorites in every category. And this post has every poll listed for your convenience. Don't hesitate to go in and vote in every category every day until the polls close. You wouldn't want your favorites to lose, would you?
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