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Ten Things Web Designers Forget | Man with no Blog. This post should really be called ten things that get up my nose. Many of these points will be old ground for some of you, take them as reminders. They are in the most part just annoyances that with a little work we can all avoid. I’m not totally dogmatic on this list, as in a realistic business world a I know that it is not always possible to do all these things when the economics of web development come into play. But in general we should at least be giving some consideration to these points. Page Backgrounds.It is amazing how many sites rely on the default browse background colour. And assume this will be white.

What would it have taken to assign #FFFFFF to the background body element colour. I bet you personally have another 10 or so personal gripes with general web design; would love to hear what they are. Technorati Tags: CSS, print, typography, search, links, browsers, web+design, background+color. 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization. | The Wojo Group. You could write a book on website optimization, in fact people already have. But, here’s 10 really easy steps to getting your sites optimized for speed. Hopefully this will get you started and you’ll want to investigate front end optimization a little further. 1.

Run your images through smushit.com. While it’s obvious to keep your image sizes down as low as possible, it’s not as obvious that some image editing programs like photoshop can add extra meta and formatting data in your images. Its viewable if you open the image in a text editor. 2. When styling elements with CSS there are many ways to specify what you’re styling and some of those ways are faster than others. 3. 4. Keeping code file sizes down is another no brainer. When it comes to compressing your JS the best service is Yahoo’s YUI compressor. 5. There is no one image file type that always yields the smallest file sizes. 6. 7. 8. The idea behind this tip is that browsers only download 2 items in parallel per domain. 9. 10. Identifying slow MySQL queries | cPanelConfig - cPanel server co.

Innodb Performance Optimization Basics | MySQL Performance Blog. November 1, 2007 by Peter Zaitsev77 Comments Note: There is an updated post on this topic here. Interviewing people for our Job Openings I like to ask them a basic question – if you have a server with 16GB of RAM which will be dedicated for MySQL with large Innodb database using typical Web workload what settings you would adjust and interestingly enough most people fail to come up with anything reasonable. So I decided to publish the answer I would like to hear extending it with basics of Hardware OS And Application optimization. I call this Innodb Performance Optimization Basics so these are general guidelines which work well for wide range of applications, though the optimal settings of course depend on the workload. Hardware If you have large Innodb database size Memory is paramount. 16G-32G is the cost efficient value these days. Operating System First – run 64bit operating system.

There are bunch of other options you may want to tune but lets focus only on Innodb ones today.