Friday, March 22, 2013 – Hey guys how are you doing? So this week has been an intense study on how to speed up my website. I’ve read about Pingdom Tools, Google’s Page Speed, Yahoo’s YSlow, GTMetrix, and maybe others I haven’t mentioned. What I gathered from these tools is…my site is freakin slow!! The framework I am using along with the type of hosting I have does not lend itself to a fast site. I have done various tweaks, enabled compression, and used a free CDN to no avail. I had to reach out to an old friend of mine and he suggested what I was thinking and that is to code a site by hand…Now that scares me. I can’t say that I am much of a coder but if you put code in front of me I can generally figure it out. So I started doing some research and found a free html5/css3 framework that I adapted for my needs. I was able to get the gallery going, change some colors, iframe my blog in, and the only problem I am having now is getting it to work in mobile devices which is half if not most of the battle. If you get a chance take a look. I put it here
This prompted me to do research on other sites and WOW there are some awesome sites out there. I think at this point I need to come up with a project plan so I am not taking forever to get this thing going. In any event have a great weekend and I’m sure that I’ll see some of you Saturday 🙂