Google is taking site’s loading speed into consideration in determining its ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it is still something we (webmasters) should really look into. The reason is pretty simple – majority of visitors are usually in rush and no one is fond of waiting half a century before the website finally load its content or failed to load.

One of the most important thing when developing websites is page loading speed, to load as quickly as possible, especially in the case of large websites with lots of CSS code where faster loading means increased usability and user satisfaction.

CSS Compression tools improves your load time performance by removing comments from code, placing each command in one single line, removing unneeded ‘white space’ characters like space, new line, and tab to reduce its size.

Welcome back to part two of our email UI faceoff – I recently wrote about the usability testing process, and set up a test for comparing the usability of Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

Well, the results are in and we’ve got some pretty interesting feedback from the test – you can get directly to the test results yourself, or read on for our analysis and verdict.

Over the days we’ve been running the test, we had north of 300 people take it, and we think the numbers are a pretty good sample. Based on our analytics data, I could see that we had participants from 64 different countries, and it took the average user 2:56 to take the test.

Twitter has gone large, really large. Everyone of us has seen the tremendous growth this nifty little service with just a basic and simple idea has gone over the years. The main thing that makes twitter so powerful is their API. The twitter API enables developers to develop their own custom twitter applications and tools. With the API provided by twitter, developers can call the twitter services and  integrate them into their applications and tools very easily. There are zillions of twitter tools and apps out there. Some offer enhanced tweeting user experience while others are useful for personal and business analytics. With twitter, we have collected some of very useful and indispensible tools that we think you should be knowing about. So here goes the list:

Here is my own, personal, professional, fully functional, and edited Collection of Web Design Sites and Blogs where you can submit your own Articles for Free that are related to the Web Design Topics. I have been searching for a while now for the Web Design and Resource Websites that let you Submit Your Own Design News on their Awesome Graphic Websites. These Design – News – Submit Websites were personally tested and examined by me to make sure that they are current, up to date, and stills functional.

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc.These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 10 Best Business Web Apps To Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or Adobe Illustrator) before spending big bucks on it. Maybe sometimes you just need it for a very small job, in which case spending the big bucks on it just simply isn’t worth it. Or maybe you’re a student with not much money (which is usually the case) and just want an application that will do the job but not cost you an arm and a leg!

In this article you’ll find 50 useful tools for web designers and developers. It includes plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing and many more.

Designers and Developers have to be prepared for every eventuality…at all times.   It is an unspoken rule that as soon as you step away from your desk, disaster strikes and clients start to call needing things done immediately.  It could be anything from editing a photo while on a trip to taking quick notes in the food store to uploading a file from the train.   In today’s world it is becoming more important to stay connected with the ability to function even when you are away from your computer.

Today, lets take a look at 30 great applications for the iPhone  that will help designers and developers extend their phones beyond just making calls and finding directions into an indispensable  design productivity tool.

There are so many iPad and iPhone applications on the market that it is difficult to know where to start. Thankfully, there are several sites which carefully review and write about these apps so you don’t have to. Here’s a list of review sites which will help you on your way. Apps with a high rating from many users also gives a good indication of great usefulness and high quality.

With the popularity of Chrome, they have launched many Chrome Addons  and all SEO experts and those who are learning it needs tools to help ease their work. Chrome being fastest browser on earth everyone is shifting to it. Here I’ve collected Best SEO Chrome Addons  which are definite to help you. Be sure to check them out as you might find some new ones here. If I have missed any, please feel free to suggest it through comments.