Speeding up your website’s load time and conserving bandwidth go hand in hand and a key to achieving both is keeping your image sizes down. RIOT is a nice freeware tool that helps you compress your images as much as possible while maintaining as much quality as you can. Side by side previews show before and after comparisons for Jpeg, Gif and PNG files. You can even compress to a specific size you request. Similar to Adobe ImageReady but free!
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Content Management Systems are more and more available, common and increasingly popular. The WordPress blogging platform is just one example. CMS can be used for all types of web sites from blogs to message boards to collaborative web sites or simply as a way to create a site for a client that they can edit themselves.
There are so many CMS options out there that choosing one can be daunting. Steven Snell at Designm.ag has a great roundup of dozens of the most popular including links to tutorials and tips on how to put them to use. Don’t forget to scan the comments for even more useful thoughts.
This plugin helps you easily create and monitor web surveys, polls and other types of webforms from within the WordPress admin interface. A free SurveyGizmo account is required.
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A great thing about Graffiti Fonts is that anything you type with it automatically looks like you’ve spent a lot of time designing it, it’s typography with graphic design built in. Thanks to Web Design Blog you can download 75 free graffiti fonts to start off or compliment your collection.
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