Build faster websites with CSS sprites - article reviews

Being a web developer, I am interested in building websites that load quickly, offer the best content, have a nice design, and are easy to use. Using CSS sprite images on your website is the best way to quicken up the loading time of your images and is also the best way to keep up with today’s best web design practices. Via the tutorial9.net I found this interesting article about Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites - see the main points below.

Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites
Materials Needed for building faster sites:

• Image – Step 1: Set up each individual navigation menu image states
• Step 2: Image - Combine all 3 navigation bar image states into 1 image
• Step 3: Image – Measure the height of each buttons
• Step 4: Image – Measure the width of each buttons
• Step 5: Image – Width and height of each buttons
• Step 6: CSS – setting up the navigation bar
• Step 8: CSS – Using HTML lists (ul tags) for the navigation bar links
• Step 9: CSS – adding images for each links
• Step 10: CSS – adding hover states to the navigation bar
• Step 11: CSS – adding clicked/active states to the navigation bar
  

Continue to read this article, which also speaks about some more Ways to Speed Up Your Website - Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites.

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I truly apologize for not writing on this blog for a while, but "I'be been busy", as they say. Check out the Cool Articles and the Social Media Article series on my other blog! Though I dodged the twitter thinggie for a while, eventually I gave in to so many of my friends who use it, and I'm on twitter also, writing every day about stuff, especially about website design, website programming, SEO, internet marketing, interesting stuff....(I hope).

Now about the collection of the articles in my link collection(there's also an archive of cool articles/twitter-facebook related ones): There are so many sites out there that write about interesting things related to different niches, and I was thinking to compile them, even to express an opinion about them, and list them! This becomes a more difficult task as the list of such sites increases. Some of them are:

• techcrunch, mashable, smashingapps, readwriteweb,
• engadget, thenextweb, smashingmagazine; sbwire; tech blorge;
• programmable web; seo scoop; webdesign booth; search engine journal; css reflex;shoemoney; 1st web designer; instant shift; blog oh blog; graph paper press; web design dev; design reviver; noupe; doshdosh; seosmarty; creative SEO; outlaw design blog; SEO design solutions;

and many others! Anyways, since so many other people on twitter and their blogs mention these articles, I was thinking even to introduce the most interesting ones of them here, on this blog, with a few words, at least with their main topics. Believe me, some of them are really interesting!

So, in conclusion, follow me on twitter here, or the business account, or the account where u'll get some spiritual nourishment.