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Aug 11
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Website Performance Optimisation for traceofwind.com

By Gary Hicks | Optimisation< Website Design | No Comments

How I optimised media-heavy traceofwind.com, and came up Gold in performance rankings across the board.

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Aug 05
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Website performance optimisation

By Gary Hicks | Optimisation< Website Design | No Comments

Websites that load faster are more engaging and more likely to attain conversions, here’s how:

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Jul 30
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Web layouts: responsive, adaptive, liquid or static?

By Gary Hicks | Website Design | No Comments
When discussing a page layout, web designers will often use terms like fixed, static, liquid, adaptive, responsive, and a few others. Read More

Jul 18
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Guide to backing up WordPress

By Gary Hicks | Website Design< Wordpress | No Comments

Set up an automated offsite backup for WordPress. Read More

Jul 15
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Improve search in WordPress

By Gary Hicks | Website Design< Wordpress | No Comments

How to improve WordPress’ search engine. Read More

Jul 09
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Optimising WordPress

By Gary Hicks | Website Design< Wordpress | No Comments

Ten top tips to optimising WordPress. Read More

Jun 30
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Header navigation

By Gary Hicks | Javascript< Website Design< Wordpress | No Comments

Adjusting the padding surrounding the links in header. Read More

Jun 29
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Portfolio hover effects

By Gary Hicks | Website Design | No Comments

In this post we discuss how to add hover effects to Portfolio (default) style 1. Read More

Jun 29
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Portfolio thumbnails

By Gary Hicks | Website Design | No Comments

By default the theme displays two links overlaid the Portfolio thumbnail. Read More

Jun 29
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Clearfix

By Gary Hicks | Website Design | No Comments

This works for modern browsers. If you want to support IE6 you will want to add the following: Read More

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From the blog:

  • Website Performance Optimisation for traceofwind.com August 11, 2014
  • Website performance optimisation August 5, 2014
  • WordPress blog categories July 30, 2014
  • Web layouts: responsive, adaptive, liquid or static? July 30, 2014

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