Author Archives: Mike Tansey
Reducing HTTP Requests by Outputting Images as Base64
It’s an ever increasingly important step in webpage speed optimisation to reduce HTTP requests where ever possible. This guide will demonstrate how to cut down the number of HTTP requests enourmously, in those sometimes unavoidable situations where large amounts of images need to be loaded.
Tomorrow Is Just Another Day. That You’ll Never Forget – Apparently…
Apple today, announced publicly, very publicly, on the home page of apple.com that there is something exciting they’ve got lined up for us tomorrow. The message, that dominates the entire homepage reads; “Today is just another day. That you’ll never …
Date Display Technique – CSS Sprites – Full Source
There is an article which shows a technique for showing the date using a sprite image and some CSS, using background-position: The article doesn’t offer the full code, so to save some time writing out all the styles, here it …
Top Ten SEO Gurus To Follow on Twitter
Social media is booming, and twitter is where it’s at. Here’s a list of the top ten SEO gurus you should follow to stay current with the latest tricks, trends and techniques. These guys range from Google employees, to SEO …
How does reCAPTCHA work?
Most are familiar with the captcha system know as reCAPTCHA. It’s slogan “Stop Spam, Read Books” implies it’s purpose, which is to have human minds “OCR” text from books which have been damaged and are in poor condition.
