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Six Revisions has an interesting article following a debate over whether a web designer should know how to code a site. This is an important topic as more and more DIY options become available. Today there are dozens of options to create a website without knowing a lick of code. Should these people call themselves web designers? (continue reading…)

The New Year is here and people are hard at work on those resolutions to slim down their budgets, their waistlines… but what about their websites?

Back in the days of dial-up and 14.4k modems, a page that was more than 100kb would be considered extremely bloated. Now things have changed; broadband is evermore ubiquitous and so is the demand for internet candy like Flash and Javascript. And just like the American waistline, the size of the average website has been expanding.

As busy web designers, it’s easy to get lazy and let our pages start putting on a little weight, so here are 9 tips for getting that website back in shape and able to fit into those skinny jeans again. (continue reading…)