Web coding can be quite tricky at times, figuring out how you want your website to look and where your visitors are coming from. Here’s a compilation of the most helpful free tools on the web to make your website better.
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Eliminate the process of each year changing copyright dates on all of your sites (which gets increasingly harder to keep track of) by using either PHP or JavaScript to streamline the current year.
PHP
To do this in PHP is very simple. I recommend this method because it does not rely on the fact that your client has JavaScript.
Where you need the current year simply add this:
<?php echo date('Y'); ?>
and it will output the 4 digit year. (EG: 2010)
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Compressing the contents of your sites can decrease file sizes, use less bandwidth, and significantly speed up page load times.
We’re going to go over how to compress CSS, JavaScript, and image files without having them lose any functionality.
For CSS compression we recommend using Clean CSS, a free online tool to compress your CSS.
Here’s the recommended settings for max compression:
In this blog post we’ll cover how to create a simple device which highlights a substring (generally words) in a specified string.
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10 Things To Do For Every New Site
There are some things that I find myself doing after every new site I make. Here’s a list of the top 10 things to do after you make a new website.
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