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whitehouse.gov Website Code Examined
A neat little write-up on the way that whitehouse.gov is coded, focusing on optimization, SEO, architecture, etc.
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Roger on Best practices for the Mobile Web.
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Quality busters: Compare Web site appearance and functionality
Quality busters: Compare Web site appearance and functionality. Does it take a long time to make simple changes to your Web pages? Are bandwidth charges higher than you would like due to the size of your Web pages? Have you written hundreds of lines of code just to handle browser differences? If so, you might […]
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