Category Archives: Development

Quick wins to speed up your website

 Nobody likes waiting for a site to load, thankfully we live in a time when internet connections are quite fast, however we also live in a time when people are more impatient. Google are also said to be taking page load time into consideration for their ranking algorithm, here's a few quick changes you can do to speed up your sites load time.

Create your own link shortening site

 I recently created a complete site that is a link shortening tool which allows you to run your own public link shortener that keeps statistics on user clicks, and also displays a feed of what is 'hot' right now, based on the communities use / click throughs. This article is a quick rundown on how to set it up, and where to view a running demo.

Random Fading Rotator with jQuery

 This article is going to cover the basics in having a set list of elements fade through each other in rotation, but in a random order, so that your users aren't always seeing the same items first and all the elements get a fair run.