Posts Tagged ‘css sprites

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]

If you’ve ever used Google’s Page Speed or Yahoo’s YSlow to optimize your website chances are you’ve seen a suggestion to “use CSS sprites.” CSS sprites reduce HTTP requests by combining multiple images into a single file which you can then display throughout your page, positioning it as need with the CSS background-position property. Typically [...]

Advertise here with BSA At WRD, several applications for generating CSS sprites are shared until now. With their pros and cons, all of them are easing a time-consuming process. Css-sprit.es is another web-based CSS sprite generator that offers very nice options including: getting the sprite image as JPG, GIF or PNG stylesheet being CSS or [...]

   Whether you’re using WordPress as a CMS, a blog or somewhere between the two, as a portfolio site, making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely paramount in this day and age. This article and screencast combo takes you through how to use a variety of tips, tricks and techniques in order to make [...]

Google has released Page Speed Online, a Google Labs project that analyzes any website for its speed and gives suggestions on how to improve it. The experimental tool is straightforward to use; just type in a website and Google will come back with suggestions for how to improve that website’s speed. The suggestions are ranked [...]


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