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Viviflash Web Design Services of NH tips on how to optimize your web site.
Switching to high-level CSS selectors and CSS layout control can make a big difference in size and speed. Try not to use tables which is considere the old-style of formatting. Overuse of graphics and advertising is over-doing it. Font tags and single pixel GIFs can be inefficient.
Headlines should be descriptive, short and sweet. Users skim at first, so long bullet phrases can slow them and your pages down. Overuse of images is common problem, especially for when using rollover images. It can kill 56Kbps connections due to all of the HTTP requests. Most home users in the US are still at 56Kbps or less (67.5% as of Jan. 2003 according to Nielsen//NetRatings), so it is a good idea to design your web site for speed.
Some Website Optimization Tips
- Minimize HTTP requests: convert graphic text to text and consolidate.
- Remove whitespace (spaces, tabs, and returns).
- Omit redundant tags and attributes.Omit optional quotes and closing tags (this can violate HTML/XHTML).
- Minimize colors and character entities.
- Cut the comments. Minimize ALT values, but make them descriptive, not generic.
- Minimize the head to maximize body display speed.
- Minimize meta tags:
- Use only the description and keywords tags.
- Conditionally include meta tags for critical pages.
DO NOT
- Do not over-submit your site to search engines.
- Some may take weeks to months to add your site. Submitting once a month to each of the search engines and directories is sufficient.
- Do not hide your keywords on your web page.
- Camouflaging your keywords by coloring the same as the background is called ghosting. You will probably be penalized or banned for doing this.
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