Optimizing your website
Optimizing is a process that reduces the size of files that your web page accesses. Have you ever waited a long time for one small image to download? More than likely, that image file was not optimized. A typical image that is saved in a bitmap format or not optimized properly can be 6 times that of the file size of an optimized jpg image.
The point of this article is not to teach you how to optimize images, that is my job. But you should understand that optimizing your website properly will result in less bandwidth usage from your host and, more importantly, faster page loads to keep those visitors around once you get them there.
There is more than simply reducing image file sizes in order optimize a web page. There are many things going on in the background such as scripts of code that are being read for all that dynamic content that makes your site cutting edge. Knowing how to combine such scripts into one framework such as jQuery can reduce the amount of code that a server must load in order for your page to work.
Losing page weight
Aside from optimizing your code and image files, there is another thing I do to make your website a little more slender and help speed up your page load time. In case your wondering, it does not involve cutting empty carbohydrates from the code. Web designers whom are aware of up to date programming techniques use a newer style of web page layout sometimes referred to as "table-free" coding. To sum this up, many years ago(as if the internet has been around since the 1800's) something called "tables" were used to design websites. By todays standards, this is becoming an outdated practice and being replaced by CSS layouts. Tables are still used, but only for displaying tabular style data such as spreadsheet style data. Again, this article is not about how to code in CSS, but you should know that pure CSS layouts will not only load faster, but more advanced technologies, such as cell phones, will render web pages more universal with this type of layout.
Hopefully, after reading this, you have some understanding of why optimizing your website is so critical. Through hand-coding I make sure your website meets the requirements of the fast-paced technology within the World Wide Web.