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Friday, June 29, 2012

Easy Ways to Decrease Home Page Load Time

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The Sad, but True Facts

The Big Factors

Unfortunately, not everyone has the same internet provider, connection, and/or browser as you do. Any one of those differences can determine whether your website loads in 1 second or 120 seconds. As you know, page viewers do not like to wait. In fact most visitors would rather research and try a different resource than a website that does not load in under 5 seconds.
  • internet provider
  • computer speed
  • web browser
  • device or computer
  • location
  • cache memory
  • bandwidth

Obviously, you cannot buy all of your readers Alienware super computers so to decrease page load time you must focus on your websites' internals.

Is Less More?

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to Create Email Links with HTML

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Copying and pasting an email address into the "To:" prompt of an email can be surprisingly unpleasant especially when the email benefits the receiver and not the sender.

In a blog such as W7R it is important to allow users to email you with as little effort as possible (without the copying and pasting).


About the Email Link Syntax

  • The 'a' is the same anchor tag used with website links
  • href is an HTML attribute of the anchor tag, 'a'
  • After href comes an = sign and a destination in parenthesis
  • The format for email destinations is mailto: + an email
  • Replace AnEmailAddress@gmail.com with your own email
  • </a> is a closing tag for an anchor

Monday, June 25, 2012

Bulleted Lists in HTML

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Bulleted Lists Quick Facts

  • The HTML opening tag <ul> and its matching closing tag </ul> create bulleted lists
  • The more formal name for bulleted lists is Unorganized Lists
  • These quick facts are list items of an unorganized list.
  • List item can contain
    • pictures
    • text
    • video
    • links
    and combinations of those mentioned (pretty much anything)
  • Unorganized lists can have list items that contain unorganized lists lists inside them. Lists in lists are considered nested (previous list item)
Bulleted lists are called Unorganized lists and are used to display information that is to be treated equally (no rankings or order necessary).

Here is the source code for the Bulleted Lists Quick Facts!
HTML Entity
[Case Sens.]
Symbol
&gt;>
&lt;<

  • The HTML opening tag &lt;ul&gt; and its closing tag &lt;/ul&gt; create bulleted lists
  • The more formal name for bulleted lists is Unorganized Lists
  • These quick facts are list items of an unorganized list.
  • List item can contain
    • pictures
    • text
    • video
    • links
    and combinations of those mentioned (pretty much anything)
  • Unorganized lists can have list items that contain unorganized lists lists inside them. Lists in lists are considered nested (previous list item)