I mentioned CSS sprites, as a way to cut down the load time, of your website in my speed up your wordpress blog post. I would like to elaborate a little on that and share more reasons to use css sprites.

What is CSS sprites?

CSS sprites is a way to combine all your decorative graphics elements in to one file and positioning them using css. It’s a technique that has been used by game designers for a long long time. The main goal is to save load size for your user, to get your site to load faster. Here are two links on how to do it. CSS Tricks: CSS sprites and A List Apart: CSS Sprites Now let’s talk a little about when to use it and when not to.
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Getting a favicon on your website is a great way to help your visitor find your website, in their bookmarks. If you do not know what a favicon is, it’s the small icon next to the URL in the address bar of your browser. It’s also shown besides bookmarks in all common browsers. It’s a great little something extra to have on your website. I am going to show you how to do it in Photoshop. Now if you are not a designer or use Photoshop you can do it using one of the online makers like favicon.cc.
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Print designers have a hard time adapting to webdesign. And I can understand why. We are required to think different, and more technical than usual. Lime green becomes #9dff33 and moving images around becomes waaayy more difficult! So here are some tips for starting out with designing for the web.
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Save for web and devices in photoshop, seems like a relatively easy feature to get your head around. But still I see a lot of graphic designers and webdesigners not using it properly. So here are some basic tips to get smaller images without loosing quality.

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Okay, right off the bat. I’m no jQuery expert and I’m by no means a coding expert. I can code CSS/HTML in my sleep of course, but I have not worked a lot javascript. I have been learning it a bit at the time as I’ve had the need for it.

And then along came jQuery. That really made me get a lot more into javascript as it made thing so much easier. Know having said that jQuery takes a bit of time to learn too. Here is the list of sites I like to visit when I want to learn a bit of jQuery:

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