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 begin designing your HTML web pages, you may find that many HTML courses fall short when it comes to providing you with special effect HTML codes and tips.

However, there are many special effect HTML codes that will enable you to enhance your visitors’ experience tremendously.

When trying to decide what HTML codes to use within your web pages, keep in mind, if it doesn’t enhance your web page, it’s probably best to leave it out, as the more special effects you add to your page, the longer your page will take to load.

1. Object HTML

A set of classes that will allow you to build HTML documents completely w/ objects in PHP. This is only the most basic layer but it is easy to build onto.

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2. OO HTML Table Generation

Automatic generation of HTML for table.
- Colspan, rowspan, table style, column style, cell style, and data style may all be defined.
- OO interface
- Simple but effective

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Ever seen web galleries such as BestWebGallery or CSSRemix and wonder what they use to manage all those design entries that make up the gallery? Well usually its a WordPress theme that works together with many plugins to create a gallery.

I have compiled a list of 8 great and free gallery themes you can download and build your own CSS gallery with. You just have to be running WordPress.

Have you ever looked at a newspaper and thought I wonder what that would look like in a web design, or I wonder how I would go about coding that out? Well I have put together showcase of the top 10 Free newspaper and magazine WordPress Themes to transform your blog.

These themes all look fairly nice and you can customize them exactly the way you like. Some of them you will need to download certain plugins that run alongside the theme. Let me know what theme you like best, and if you have found or are using any other newspaper and magazine styled WordPress themes on your site im sure we would love to hear it.

Over the years we’ve developed a repeatable, efficient process for developing small to medium sized web sites. These web projects are usually completed in one iteration in about 2 to 3 months. The process we’ve developed involves considerable interaction with and feedback from the client throughout the project. We’ve broken up the project into 6 or 7 mostly overlapping phases:

Today I have compiled a list of amazing web design interfaces from the extremely popular design website, DeviantArt. These designs are seriously inspirational. They all have a special something added to them that makes them clean and stand out. I also think some are for sale too.

My favorites include number 18, Pixel Purist by L-a-m-p-E and number 27, Panele Drewniane by finesy.

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)

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Today we want to show off our favorite 30 programmers who have inspired and influenced so many people to become better programmers. Let us know who has inspired you to start and become a better programmer!

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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.