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50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results. And this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist, batch inst...

How to use Gzip to load your site faster in 5 minutes

This tutorial will only examine one particular way of implementing Gzip compression with PHP, but there is another way to accomplish it with Apache if you have administration access to your server. Step 1: Enable zlib compression in php. You can do this many ways, just choose one: * Add a line to your .htaccess file: * Add or change a line in your php.ini file: * Add a line to the top of your PHP scripts before any output: Now that you’ve done that (and particularly...