Google + slow loading = not worth having background images.
In trying to keep their homepage as minimal as possible, in December Google switched to fading in the home page links only on an event: moving your mouse or tabbing out of the search box. This was fine when the home page was only white, as it wasn’t taxing on computers to fade in on white.
Now that Google allows for custom image backgrounds (likely in response to how beautiful the Bing backgrounds are), the fading in process can be tedious, even using blazing-fast Chrome. I can only imagine what users using Internet Explorer 6 are going through: fading in images takes a lot of work and time!
This was annoying me, so I made a quick modification to my SEO Stylesheet (a Custom Stylesheet to display search results and no-follow nicely in Safari, IE and Firefox). This mod will make the image load solid, with no fading or resulting lag. Read more&hellip
If you’re used to WordPress’ body_class() function, this post for you.
Working with WordPress, it’s easy to get accustomed to some of its nice features, like the body_class() function introduced in WP 2.8. When working with Interspire Shopping Cart, I wanted the same level of information added to the page’s <body> tag. Read more&hellip
Katz Web Design has completed a website for Mountain High Roofing, Inc., a Denver roofing company.
The Mountain High Roofing website is built on WordPress. It’s what I would consider to be a medium level of customization; the website is a custom website design with a few plugin customization options. It allows Mountain High to easily update their own content, and add articles to their blog. The code is well-structured for really good SEO results. Read more&hellip
If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s:
Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo2.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo3.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo5.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo6.png
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo7.png
http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo8.png
http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo9.png
March 25, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo10.png
April 1, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo11.png
April 21, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo12.png
May 4, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo13.png
July 2, 2010 – http://www.seodenver.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/53708e94f618e796e88d30563dab0856.png
You can’t get much more efficient than that…
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