Java is a language that is used more and more to create a quick way of calling up web services without the need of submitting the current page. This makes for fast loading time which is something we all strive for. More and more the ways of making things faster are becoming more important.  Heavy loads for opening pages are a thing that should be in the past.

Snippets and more from Ntt.cc

This is a good resource to go to for all manner of items. They have freebees of code as well as various kinds of plug-ins for WordPress and a full series of Tutorials on Java code. The amount of items on this site provide you with an array of good content besides the normal stuff like links to places where they will receive a commission.. Well that’s fine, we all have to live, don’t we?

Ican’t

I can’t give you a completely rundown on how to make your Java unobtrusive. I am no Java fundi and most of it is, quite frankly, over my head but I think it makes sense even if I don’t understand how to put it into practice. From what I understood he gives rules on how to utilize it without being dependent on it.

Specky Boy Design Magazine

Specky boy has come up with 40 assorted Ajax and Java script items that are free.
This is a good assortment covering a range of programs which allow you to create things in Java and Ajax.  While you might not know java this can help you create what you need by remote. It’s an interesting assortment. Some of which I didn’t even know existed. One of those includes a shopping cart in Ajax. The original page didn’t work but all the various down loads are on the Ajax page above.

Hunlock Advocates Tools web designer should have

One of the things they offer is a routine in Ajax for you to include in your arsenal of tools. Anyone looking for good tools that aren’t normally include but that you use often, take a look at the list available here and see if you can’t pick it up tools you require.

Think Vitamin

Now that is an unusual name to find JavaScript suggestion but yes they do have a few.
It is a “Web Practitioners Blog” so when you get inside you will understand.
Here they give you good advice about combining code to save on server requests and items like that. Trouble is things keep being updated so your scripts become old fashioned and out of date. When that happens you need to up date too.
They recommend not using gzip as IE has problems with it and give you suggestions as to how to get around the problem of it is not working correctly.

How browsers work

The Coding Horror is a blog which has a few oldies but goodies that need to be read as to how java and search engines work. Although it is old, it keeps getting updated so don’t miss out on what they have to say. Jeff Atwood keeps up to date with his knowledge and it’s good to learn from people who know what they are talking about.

Improving our blogs is an ongoing business and if one just does one little thing a day when you do your daily post (As you should) it will improve. You will then soon have it looking the way you want and find an increase in traffic as a result. Improving you blog is not really difficult when you know what tools to look for and how to use them. WordPress alone has over 12 thousand plug-ins and over 1900 widgets which can all be use to improve your blog. Besides WordPress there are many more that are private projects all of which are made to improve a blog or website on WordPress in a specific way. It’s merely a case of finding the ones that are suitable for your particular needs.

Setting the Right Caption for you Photos

One way the search engines find you and list you is by using the captions you give to your photos. By default WordPress has a certain way of setting them but instead of allowing that to happen and thus loosing an opportunity to enhance your visibility you should rather use the following code.
( 3 Style WordPress Image Captions )

Obviously you can change sections in the code to suit what you want to appear.
You will find information about this in the WordPress Codex in the generate classes section.

Something that really speeds up loading is when you make your WordPress header to display first. This is pretty simple to do as you merely add the following code to your header.php file after the tag for </head>.

As a result of that bit of code the web server is forced to send the header before anything else.

Improve your CSS

This is a more advanced strategy for people who know and understand CSS and how it works. Many times themes are written so as to enable a novice to be able to change things more easily resulting in far longer CSS coding. There are programs that will tweak this for you or if you are confident enough you can do it yourself. One of these is WordPress CSScompress.

To try to do it yourself you can look at the following code.

This can be compressed to the following.

Speaking of compressing things there are ways to make your actual WordPress theme files a lot smaller.

For example your Java script files can be compress with their compressor. Here you merely place your script in the box provided and it compresses it for you and you can then replace the relevant code.
Similar things can be done to your Html files although that is a bit more difficult as that tend to have other languages interspersed. To do this really your best option is to use a tool like W3 Total Cache. Just download the plug-in and use it whenever you do an updated post which you want to speed up. This is an ongoing optimizations tool and used by most of the major sites to enhance their net speed.

Make those few items your tasks for the next day or two.

What is the difference between a text editor and a rich Text editor? Basically, a rich text editor is a mostly web based application, and a text editor is a program on your computer. The idea of a text editor is simple, it enables use to use web language to edit and change the html, etc languages used to create the templates, themes and web pages of our sites. To make life simple for people who are not technical the majority of them are in the format of WYSIWYG. (What you see is what you get.)

The first option we are going to look at today is TinyMCE

This is a neat little program which is produced by Moxiecode. It is available as a free download, although there is also a new pro version out.
You type in and edit the script you want, and it will produce the HTML. The program is JAVA based.

Another editor available is Ck Editor

Again we have an Open Source program which provides us with an excellent feature in that it automatically cleans the work that is done on a Word Document. It is extremely easy to work with and provides you with ways of incorporating both texts as well as photographs. This is available as a download from CKEditor. A new version has just been released.

NicEdit is our third one on the list

The download is quick and easily integrated into the web site where you can do all the necessary changes you require in the WYSIWYG format. There is a forum on line where you can obtain help if necessary and in addition if you need him the NicEdit developer himself is available for hire.

A Javascript offering in the form of MarkitUp

This editor has the additional advantage of having been built on jQuery and comes in the form of a plug-in. This Editor is not a WYSIWYG editor rather you need to know a bit about what you are doing.

Cameron Adams has released the next Editor

You can have fun with this on line by typing in what you want and converting it, and it appears before your eyes in HTML. This you can then copy and paste and put the code into the relevant area of your website. This editor is called WidgEditor.

EditArea is up next

This is a lightweight Java Script Editor. Off hand, it looks simple enough; however, all the instructions are I think Greek? I mean in the Greek language. You can download it from Here.

A cross browser Rich Text Editor makes its appearance now

Available from Kevin Roth this is an easy to use Text Editor is compatible with most browsers as well as languages. It is also xhtml compliant.

Have fun trying a few of these out. I did.