It is a little known fact that, unlike WordPress, Moodle LMS does not resize the physical file when you upload an photo. This means that your beautiful 20 megapixel class photo is sent to the web browser even when it is displayed dozens of times smaller in a web browser. You may have experienced this…
Choosing the right file type for your web graphics is important. Not only do some of the file types support features you might want, but choosing the wrong file format can result in files that are larger than they need to be, which can seriously impact the speed and performance of your website. There are…
Does your web page take a very long time to show up the first time you open it in your browser? Does it even take more time on slower Internet connections? The problem might be the size of your image files or performance of the web servers. Why should you care? Customers don’t want to…
Multilingual Website If your website had content in more than one language, be sure to identify the default language of the page using the HTML tag itself. For example, if your page is in XHTML, you would use: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”fr” lang=”fr”> If you are working in HTML5, you can drop the xmlns and xml:lang…
The following is a list of free web development tools and resources to help you ensure accessibility on your website, regardless of whether or not you decide to take compliance all the way to WCAG 2.0, Section 508 or your countries favourite flavour of the WCAG guidelines. If you are not going to make your website friendly…
Over the past few years, the issue of accessibility on the web has been heating up. Companies all around the world are being sued because their website is not accessible to everyone. In 2009, the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is the main international standards organization for the web, published the second version of…