o7th Web Design Articles

IIS WarmUp Part II

Kevin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:41:03 +0000

I explained in my earlier post the importance of “warming up” your sites in IIS, especially using the latest .Net frameworks. Here is a major update to the code posted in that post. This one will allow you to “warm up” every site in IIS on your server. All you have to do is set

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IIS Site Warmup

Kevin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:37:07 +0000

Hey folks, ’bout time for me to come around with a little tip. Thanks to IIS 7.5 Extensions and Microsoft (well… really Windows 8, and IIS 8 I guess…), we can now prime our Application Pools, when IIS starts. Now, though it would be nice to be able to simply plug it in and go,

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URL Rewriting without 3rd Party Add-Ons

Kevin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:35:44 +0000

.Net 3.5 Brought to developers of MVC applications the wonderful world of Page Routing. This allows us .Net developers to not have to worry about SEO friendly URLs (pretty much) any more, as we can simplify the URL rewritting process and get rid of those pesky 3rd party add-ons. .Net 4 brings this Page Routing

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Proof Positive That My Site’s Faster Than Yours

Kevin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:05:19 +0000

We finally have the proof that the o7th Web Design Site Rendering Engine is faster than a static website. We finished up our Export module this morning, so we could export the entire site into static HTML files. We setup the exported site on the same server running the SRE, enabled some GZip compression, and

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YUI Compressor Windows GUI

Kevin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:04:24 +0000

Well, I finally broke down and decided I was sick and tired of having to type in a command prompt what I needed done with the YUI Compressor for my CSS and javascripts. This is sort-of a beta version, but I would like to know if anyone comes across any bugs in it… maybe someday

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For the Visitors

Kevin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:27:27 +0000

Finally, in fairness, dear pets, I have posted the following message on the front door: TO ALL NON-PET OWNERS WHO VISIT AND LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR PETS: (1) They live here. You don’t. (2) If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it ‘fur’-niture. (3)

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For the Pets

Kevin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:25:50 +0000

Dear Dogs and Cats: The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically

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7 Basic Rules of Great SEO

Kevin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:37:33 +0000

1. Understand User-Intent Keyword research is the cornerstone of any SEO campaign. Understanding user-intent when conducting and selecting your keywords is critical to getting your SEO off on the right foot and helping the right audience find your site. For instance, are “gym shoes,” “sneakers” and “tennis shoes,” the same thing? For some consumers those

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5 Common SEO Mistakes

Kevin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:48:49 +0000

SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to boost your online presence by getting better search engine rankings. Google has been doing a lot to improve the search quality. If you are not on google, you are not on the Internet. In this post I will outline the methods you in order to comply with Googles

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Speed Up The Web – Part II.I

Kevin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:14:35 +0000

Welcome my friends to a second installment and follow-up to our Speed Up The Web series. In this installment we will be discussing another similar technique that was previously discussed in Part II. Minifying and Concatenating your stylesheets and javascripts. The previous process discussed a method to do this for your .Net website automatically by

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