Check out this little baby - a 3D video player!
Do you manage to develop, make and structure CSS documents? Without errors? Compatible with both IE7, Firefox and Safari - and off course the beloved IE6(!) ? Maybe you do… But do you then know how to keep the size of your CSS documents to a minimum?
Okay, enough of all the retorically questions! Here we want to go through the most common mistakes that we know of.
While more and more people are using faster Internet connections and we get more and more high-speed Internet connections at work and in our private home, it seems like the designers and developers forget an important issue in their work with web sites - the speed!
The whole so-called Web 2.0 wave certainly has an effect on this issue. Every site has now implemented Flickr galleries, Twitter integration, FaceBook plugins, etc., etc. All these functions need an external server-call which ultimately will slow down a site’s load-time.
Would you like to get some tips about how to draw a little fellow like this?
So take a peek.
Admit it - we all hate to be limited to the so-called “websafe fonts”. It you put on the SEO glasses, this will be a limited collection of about 10 fonts (according to this font matrix). As a designer typography is a very important part, and there is nothing that can destroy a lovely design as the limited collection of fonts.
There are those people who use graphic titles and other work-arounds. But if a site has to be 100 percent SEO friendly and indexable by Goggle, Yahoo etc., work in different languages or be controlled by a big back-end (CMS), you’ll surely run into problems!
