Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.

The benefits of speed optimized pages:

1. Your visitors will be happier, and will feel much more engaged on a snappy site than a slow one. User interface responsiveness is a very large contributing factor to how users trust your content and company. Users trust and enjoy fast sites, and are quickly frustrated by slow sites.
2. The faster that you can serve content to your visitors, the faster they’ll be off your servers, leaving them free to serve the next visitor. That means that you can handle greater traffic loads, with less hardware.
3. Smaller overall downloads means lower bandwidth bills at the end of the month.

When you write a CSS for your project you never know what kind of bug or issue you will face at time of browser compatibility.

Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla Firefox are the standard browsers which are globally considerable at time of browser compatibility. Other browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Opera have a significant presence as well.

In today’s scenario browser bugs with CSS can be an incredible source of frustration for Web designers and developers. In this post I’m sharing some most common CSS browser compatibility Issues/Bugs. Here’s the following list:

The long-awaited Firefox 3.6 has been released after months of testing, and key amongst its many new features is an emphasis on speeding up the web browsing experience.

Firefox 3.6 boasts a 20% faster browsing speed than its predecessor 3.5, reports Mashable. Startup speed, stability, and load times have been improved. Running scripts has been streamlined. And the way it handles javascript has been altered to provide faster loading and use of java-enabled pages.

Here are the top 30 most influential people in web design. This list is in order starting from the most influential person at number 1, all the way down to 30. The order we have put the list in is through our eyes. If you would put someone else at number one, who would it be? Drop us a comment. Anyway, enjoy reading through the list! (Its taken a long time to perfect)

* * * 30 People Who Know Lots About Web Design * * *

Minimalist design can be somewhat difficult to understand at first, (even for the more seasoned designer) and hard to master. A minimalist website contains subtle, simple yet elegant elements that aren’t visually overwhelming and can distract a visitor from the main focus of the site. In art, minimalism refers to the awareness of fundamental qualities that attract a certain type of attention opposite from the norm.

It seems like the eternal question amongst web developers: HTML or XHTML? Wherever I look there seems to be posts in forums raising the question, web developers asking me or other people write blog posts about what they believe is the right way to go. I’m not writing this post to tell you what the ultimate choice is, but rather to inform you about the consequences of what you choose. So, let’s take it from the top:

By Robert Nyman: Stop developing for Internet Explorer 6

This proposal might seem a bit drastic, but please allow me to present my case.

Where we are today

This year, it is eight years since Internet Explorer 6 was released. A couple of years later, the three main competing web browsers had all reached a very competent state when it came to especially CSS and JavaScript support, and started challenging Internet Explorer. Since then, all web browser have released newer and better versions.