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My Favorite Links
I am constantly testing and adopting new website design tools. Here are a few of my favorite things.
Web Performance Best Practices:
Google Performance Guidelines: 5 basic principles, 23 specific best practices
Yahoo! Performance Guidelines: 34 best practices divided into 7 categories
Steve Souder's Blog: Prolific blog about building high-performance web sites
Web Performance Measurement:
Firebug: Essential Firefox add-on allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live
Page Speed: Firefox/Firebug add-on evaluates and recommends, based on Google's guidelines
Y!Slow: Firefox/Firebug add-on evaluates and recommends, based on Yahoo's guidelines
WebPageTest: Web-based testing, optimization checklist, video comparisons, desktop version
HTTP Compression Check: Quick test to make sure your web pages are gzipped
Hammerhead: Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.
Image Optimization:
SpriteMe: Simple application makes combining background images into a sprite simple
SmushIt: Makes your image files smaller without sacrificing quality
Programming Forums:
Stack Overflow: collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers
Hacker News: very techie social news site moderated by Y Combinator alumni
Proggit: a subsection of reddit, dedicated to all things programming
Web Programming Tools:
User Agent Switcher: Firefox add-on allows you to mask the user agent of your browser.
Tao HTML Edit: My favorite mac text editor for CSS, JS, PHP & HTML
Web Design Resources:
BrowserShots: online service that makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers
iStockPhoto: low-cost stock photography, illustrations, video and audio
Collaboration Tools:
Basecamp: Drop-dead simple web-based project collaboration tool.
Blog Software:
Wordpress: The biggest, baddest and cheapest open-source blogging software
ExpressionEngine: A flexible content management & publishing system, built on CodeIgniter
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Lou Mintzer
I'm Lou Mintzer, a web entrepreneur, programmer, designer and product builder. My blog is about website design and Internet technology.
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