I'm a user focused mobile developer, here is where I publish advice and thoughts on building great mobile apps

Web design 401

A friend told me last night he’s planning on building a website and could do with a few resources. I thought I’d suggest a few here so he, or anyone else, can get a head start of web design. First I recommend buying Web Design In a Nutshell by O-Reill. It will cost you around…

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Speed up PC startup time

My Laptop is running slowly at the moment. Today I found a way to quickly speed up startup time. Go to the Start menu, Run, and type “msconfig” (no quotes.) In the Startup tab, uncheck anything you don’t need (leave on virus scan, turn off the instant messenger program you stopped using months ago.) There…

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Splitting CSS Files

Many people recommend splitting CSS files down into smaller files for code organisation. Yahoo recently conducted some research proving that the more files downloaded by a page (css files, image files, javascript files etc) the longer a page takes to download. This means reducing the number of files loaded by a page will speed up…

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Optimising for google

Some hints i picked up on optimization listening to a boagworld.com podcast. Pick the keywords you wish to target, make them quite specific and ones others will not select in a big way Create keyword heavy urls – urls count Make the h1 the name of the page heading, not the site heading – stick…

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