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Everyone knows the importance of site speed and its importance in retaining visitors and one of the best plugins for Wordpress in speeding up your site has to be W3C Total Cache.  For a long time I had used WP-Super Cache but found it to not necessarily work as I wanted it to.  I was always on the look out for something else and thanks to Joost De Valk I became more and more sold on the idea of W3C Total Cache, and frankly its awesome. However even though it has pretty good documentation and the install process is straightforward I found there was nowhere that really told me how to set up everything to get it working at its optimal settings.  Thats when I came across this tutorial.  I've included a downladable pdf of the guide if you would rather read this but the following information should help you optimise your websites load speed. I managed to take make my homepage load in 2.5 seconds and rank at 80 (Grade B) on YSlow, still with some work left to be done i.e HTML requests/CSS Sprites.

With Firefox being everyones favourite Web Developers tool its good to see that Google are hot on their heels developing some great extensions for Chrome. The Chrome Developer Tools are great for debugging HTML, JavaScript and CSS in Chrome. If you're writing a webpage or even a web app for the Chrome Web Store, you can inspect elements in the DOM, debug live JavaScript, and edit CSS styles directly in the current page. Extensions can make Google Chrome an even better web development environment by providing additional features that you can easily access in your browser.

Another really useful tutorial by Jeffery Way over at NETtuts: A common design technique lately is to create a fold effect, where it appears as if a heading is wrapping behind its container. This is generally achieved through the use of tiny images; however, with CSS, we can mimic this effect quite easily. I’ll show you how in four minutes.

Aequilibrium Business Coaching & Consultancy called on TwentyEleven to come up with a brand identity and corporate website for their business. Based at the prestigious Brindley Place address in Birmingham they needed a site that was to reflect their company image....

I have been writing over at my blog about writing compelling copy for the web. Now a day’s many people are using Wordpress as their blogging platform or Content Management System, because Wordpress provides flexibility, easy customization, and tailored Search Engine Optimisation. Most people who use Wordpress are aware of basic search engine optimisation (SEO) and will be aware of some of the popular Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) plugins available to them.  However for high search engine placement they need to adopt more advanced techniques (Keyword Analysis, Split Testing, compelling Copy etc) . As we all know Copy is king when it comes to Googles 'Bots'.  If you want to get Good Wordpress SEO with minimal work, here is a cool and very popular wordpress plugin,  Scribe.

It has been suggested that beautiful and usable websites are created on a foundation of beautiful and usable typography. I’ve even read an article that suggests that the web is actually comprised of 95% typography. I’m not convinced that there is any empirical evidence for this figure, but I think that the point is a good one. And, that makes typography a pretty important element that you will want to look at very carefully.