Not sure how to remove the code debt that bloats and weighs down your site? In this article, Jon Raasch will show you the quantitative benefits of optimizing page speed. This guide will give you the tools you need to convince others. Here are specific ways mobile performance impacts your site and page speed results. It’s time to change our mindset.
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With a distinct lack of debugging tools, developers turned to a variety of hacks. In general, these hacks were an attempt to recreate a given issue in a desktop browser and then debug with Chrome Developer Tools or a similar desktop toolkit. To put it bluntly, these hacks don’t work. If you’re recreating issues on the desktop, then you can’t be certain that any of your fixes will work. In this article, Jon Raasch will explore a variety of emulators and simulators that you can use for quick and easy testing. Then, he’ll look at remote debugging tools, which enable you to connect a desktop computer to a mobile device and leverage a rich debugging interface.
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A walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now to provide a more engaging user experience. Also, a variety of useful CSS and jQuery tricks that you can leverage when creating your own interactive techniques.
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Over the past few years, mobile web usage has considerably increased to the point that web developers and designers can no longer afford to ignore it.
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Interactivity can transform a dull static website into a dynamic tool that not only delights users but conveys information more effectively. In this post, we’ll walk through five different coding techniques that can be easily implemented on any website to provide a richer user experience. These techniques will allow you to better display difficult content, help users find information more effectively and provide meaningful UI cues without overwhelming the user: on-page text search, drag controls for oversized content, subtle hover effects, comment count bars and a full-page slider.
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jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless development hours; a bad plug-in leads to bug fixes that take longer than actually building the component from scratch.
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