How to Add a Favicon to a Web Site

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by David Bauernschmidt Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:00

Branding a site can include a wide range of initiatives.  Some can take a large amount of time and energy (graphic designs, target marketing, etc.) while others can take just a few minutes.  Today, I am going to show you a way to add branding to your site without paying a dime and take less than 15 minutes.  You don’t need to pay anyone and can do this completely online for free.  The only requirement is that you have a company image.  When you get this then follow the steps below.

Go to a site that will allow you to upload your image and tweak the image like

• favicon.cc
• Degraeve.com
• Favicon-generator.org

When Should You Use a Reset CSS Sheet

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:22 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:00

It is amazing to me how many times people build web sites and start to create the style sheets and such only to find out that something quirky happens depending upon the browser you are using.  What if I told you that it might not have anything to do with your styles?

Image Options for Better Web Performance

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:00

If you read articles on best practices you will quickly read that one of the best ways to increase performance is to limit your calls to the server as well as “shrink” the size of those files.  Implementing and keeping up with all of the options can actually take a full time job.  However as a small business web developer, I have realized that just implementing some of these can have a profound impact to your site.  We are always loading “assets” from the server to support a page.  These “assets” might include, images, javascript libraries, style sheets, video, audio, etc.  Better managing these assets not only improves performance but in some cases also lowers the band-width requirements.  We are very visual people so it has been my experience that the areas for great performance is to address the images first and then move on to the other areas. I am not saying that the other areas aren’t important but rather some of the little things you can do to images can improve a lot towards performance. My goal is talk about some of the available options as well as give you some thoughts and links that make this even easier.

How to Make Multilanguage Pages in SilverStripe

Last Updated on Monday, 1 April 2013 05:23 Written by Teet Bergmann Wednesday, 3 April 2013 12:00

1. Make site translatable. go to mysite/_config.php and add lines:

How to Make Dropdown Menu for Silverstripe CMS Theme

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:33 Written by Teet Bergmann Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:00

1. In your Navigation.ss file add following code (navigation file must be in folder themes/yourtheme-name/templates/Includes):