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How to increase the speed of your website by large margins
Lately I have been doing alot of research on how to make an exceedingly fast website. So in order to accomplish such a task I had to identify all the components I use when making a website and what they depend on. So let’s do a break down of the components you use when developing a website:
Programming Languages – PHP, Java, Perl, Python, C#, C++, Ruby, etc
Browser – Safari,...
What it takes to have the TOP WEBSITE!
I have been design websites for some time now and I’m creating website for my upcoming company I’m producing (I can’t say what it is just but you will know by next month) and I have taken extensive time analyzing what makes a website the best. I have analyzed Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, Ebay, Amazon and even Apple. And this is what I bring to you from my research.
1. Speed
All...
Text to Speech for the Google OS, Android (Updated)
Text to Speech in Android
Version of android executed in: 1.6rc2 in Windows
TOOLS we used:
Eclipse and Android library 1.6rc2
How it works:
1. In android 1.6rc2 the text to speech library is built in called android.speech.tts, here is link for the information http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.html
2. Here is the code
package com.android;
import java.util.Locale;
import...
8 ways to increase your website security.
Recently I have heard about how Twitter has been hacked using brute force techniques and even how Barack Obama page was hacked on Twitter. You would think a web application as popular as Twitter would have better security measures. There are different ways to hack websites but the most common way websites are hacked is by poor configurations and weaknesses found in the websites. Here are the ways to...
Compscistuff.com has been up for 3 months now!
I want to thank the readers for constantly visiting compscistuff.com and helping our website skyrocket over 14,000,000 websites!!!!!!!!! Just for helping our website get to this level I will unveil our keys to success.
Search Engine Optimization – by using these techniques it will bring your website a long way google alone brought 300 people to our website each month.
Fast loading times –...
Reducing load times and bandwidth usage
When your server is getting pounded by large amount viewers utilizing your website or you just want your website to load up faster there are two simple techniques you can use that will take you a long way:
Compress your images
Compress your code
Images – this is something that is very common to use up a lot a bandwidth, if they are not placed in the right format. I use Photoshop and the save...
How to analyze your website statistics
When analyzing your website statistics you break it down into four categories:
Visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
Visits
Usually called unique visitors, this is a deduction of how many “people” visited your site. Usually based on IP address and sometimes other factors as well. This is always an estimation since there is no accurate way to measure that. Therefore different stats programs...
Top website design applications and their alternatives
For the past 4 years I have used the same web applications or the updated versions of them. I have used:
Dreamweaver – A great IDE for HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc which makes it easy on the eyes when coding.
Flash – For creating very animated websites and add spice to whenever your doing. Also can be used to display movies too.
Adobe Photoshop – For designing almost anything your...
Is Alexa traffic rankings reliable?
Recently this week I have been tracking my alexa ranking and I have been recognizing a slight decrease in my rank and my traffic has been increasing alot. For people that don’t know what Alexa is, it is one of the largest Web crawls which processes massive amounts of data about traffic ranking and website information. So I decided to do some research on Alexa to find out the problem because one...
W3C standards? Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Youtube don’t even follow them.
Yesterday, I was trying so hard to make sure my website was meeting w3c standards, but one thing stood in my obstacle, a embedded youtube video.
This is why I was trying to pass w3c standards:
1. Helps ensure accessibility for the disabled.
2. Makes your web site accessible from a number of devices, from different browsers to the growing number of surfers using mobile devices.
3. Regardless of the...