In the matter of visiting a website or blogsite nobody likes a tortoise, everybody likes rabbit. A slow loading website bothers everyone and you will lose your visitor for forever, even if there you putted a lots of good content. Again a fast loading website is a great factor for having more visitors and pageviews, friendlier to Seo (Google likes and recommends Speed). Overall making a good impression about your content to visitor you have to make your website load faster.Optimizing and taking care of some fact is enough to make a website load faster. Things focused on here are using good host, removing unnecessary code, scripts even widget, gadgets, optimizing for image, fast caching. Also if you using wordpress how to optimize wordpress website to load faster explained here. Keep on reading the minimax explanation-
How to Optimize Website to Load Faster
Optimizing Codes
Compress CSS Optimizing CSS codes of your website’s is important. Unnecessary CSS code makes site sloth. So remove unnecessary CSS codes from your stylesheets (like unused and unnecessary white spaces, character spaces, newlines, tabs, callout boxes, buttons). Compressing CSS also will make your website Google bots crawling friendly. You may use CSS compressing tools like this
Compress JavaScript Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading your webpage to web browser, parsing, and execution time. Removing unnecessary JavaScript codes from your website make your website load faster and render faster. For compress your JavaScript code you can use this tool
Compress HTML Minify HTML code can save many bytes of data and speed up webpage loading. Safely reduce the size of your HTML code can make your website load faster plus it will reduce mobile transfer cost and optimize storage on embed systems. Way too using HTML also sloth the page loading and non SEO friendly. To compress your HTML’s from website you can use this tool
Optimizing stylesheet The standard rule and regulation of W3 HTML specification is your websites stylesheets should be put in <head> section what allows a webpage to render fast and progressively. Plus not to use render blocking JavaScript and CSS above the fold content these render blocking codes make webpage loading slower. If your website have render blocking JavaScript and CSS try to use alter or asynchronously version of those codes
Scripts in bottom Put your not very important javascripts in the bottom of body before the closing </head>. So when you site got loaded after non important functions will get load.
For Wordpress Compressing codes to website load faster You can use for wordpress best compressing and minifying code plugin Wp minify it will minify all extended unused codes for you.
Basic optimization's
Using good host and DNS system Reduce server response time and HTTP request, Dns lookup overall Dns server response time is a fact to load website faster. You will need very good server response, Mysql database and other database and Dns server response quickly. Using good proper host is the solution plus Avoiding unwanted URL redirection, URL masking, URL forwarding too
Optimize website's HTTP request When a visitor visit your website, visitor's web browser fetch data (like CSS files, JavaScript libraries, images) when web browser fetch data it makes HTTP request to your web server. Limit the number of file to be displayed in browser that's will reduce HTTP request time. Check your HTTP requests at Pingdom
Dealing with fetching contents Dealing with those contents what your webpage will fetch from other server or source. Like Advertising Banner, sponsor images, YouTube or other video site’s video playing on your website these stuffs slow down your page loading speed. Consider not to using much much ads on website
Optimize images If your website is not about photography or infograph consider to using image size of 600px, 300px, 125px and JPG or JEPG format under less than 300 kb. Also using Lossless compressed images in post or webpage can save many bytes and seconds. To compress images you can use this tool or Dynamic drive
Data URL is also helpful to optimizing images, this process turns images into URL/Code, and loads extremely faster, offline usable and don't create HTTP request on server, Use this tool for creating Data URL version of your images Dopiaza
Leverage browser Caching Cache for website means create static HTML file from dynamic website. When a webpage opens the page renders, gets data from databases, usages ram-cpu then it visible on web browser, So every time you open then page it do waste time same. Again when a webpage cached it don’t take much longer to load time saves. Set an expiry date or maximum age in the HTTp headers for static instructs for web browser to load previously downloaded files from local disk rather than the network (like in webpage code’s Last-Modified or Etag or cache-control or max-age tag using at style sheet-
For Wordpress websites plugins like Quick cache, Wp super cache using is extremely recommended for better and auto caching.
Using CDN Cdn means Content delivery network, Cdn is a process to distribute content (Text, Graphic, Media, Codes, downloadable content) from a lot of Cdn dedicated server to your website. Everybody use it because it has faster content delivery system process than own hosting server response, default caching and more safety form hack. Free Cdn service is Cloudflare paid best Cdn service is Maxcdn
If you use Wordpress There’s a lot of plugins what slows wordpress powered websites. Like floating share bar-icons, rating widgets etc. Deactivate those or control plugins loading time and make website free. Use valid and fast loading framework and themes like Diythemes, Studiopress, Woothemes can boost speed of wordpress powered websites.
Other optimizations you may do
Enable Gzip compression Gzip compression reduce the size of files what sent from your web server to increase the speed to which they are transferred to visitor's web browser or Compress your files when they are at server. Editing you .htaccess can solve this problem like-
Fonts A lot of websites uses Google web fonts and less known font to customize website, recommended is to use default web fonts like Ariel, Times new roman. Plus this is not so important.
Video's optimizing Video thumbnails, widget area video streaming take a while to load, if your site is not about video streaming, video optimizing can save you time to load.
Widgets, gadgets control Widgets/gadgets makes site beautiful that’s alright but slow down site loading speed. You can delete Un-useful but fancy widgets/gadgets.
Before 5-10 second if your website gets loaded completely, then your website is fast enough. But If your site doesn't get loaded before 5-10 second you need to optimize heavily. Hope if you use these tips to optimize your website to load faster, you website will be get loaded before typing address in address bar :) How these tips working for you don't forget to mention. Goodluck....
Compact social and feedburner subscription widget is very useful widget for use. It helps to increase email subscribers and social media fans. I published couple of Compact total social subscription widget before. Those widget got their style and now here another new style of total social subscription widget here, It uses CSS, CSS3 transition effect all over includes social icon with CSS sprite (change icon color with mouse hover with flip effect) It offers Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, Contact us page, feed profile slot. And flat designed feedburner email subscription form and it don't use much space in sidebar, no deep coding like scripts a lightweight CSS and HTML, sleek and modern looking cross browser compatibility, CSS sprite reduce http request on server, icon from just one image. Let's see how it looks how to add it in Blogger blog/wordpress sites and configure. Read on-
Total Social Subscription widget for Blogger/Wordpress
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box,
For new dashboard click on 'Text' add it to sidebar
And paste following codes and configure
How to configure
To configuring social media profiles just collect following profiles direct links, and replace with default links. Example- http://www.facebook.com/your profile will be replace with your Facebook fanpage direct link, rests are same and all links are red colored.
To configure Feedburner email subscription form, replace FeedId (pink colored) with your website's feedburner id.
Save widget and see this widget in live action.
So leave a comment about what you think about this widget, any recommendation, trouble, impression or feedback. And don't forget to subscribe you'll receive new widgets updates. Goodluck
We always want to protect our images from being copied, misused and stolen. To protect our images using watermark on images is very popular. Placing watermark on images we basically use Adobe Photoshop, but when time runs short we always want a smarter way. Watermarking software makes that job easier that time. Here such time saver, easy user interface base, multiple functions offering best watermarking software listed. Let’s read, download ‘em and start watermarking your images:-
uMark Image Watermarking Software, is a free and paid ($29) software for watermarking your digital images with a name, logo, or a copyright notice.
Batch Watermarking supports Watermark hundreds of photos in one go.
Add various shapes and fill them with solid or gradient colors. Add QR codes as watermark on your photos
Border and shadow Applicable
Fully Customizable Watermarks choose the font, font size, style and color for your watermarks. Set custom transparency level, add shadows or rotate watermarks to your taste.
Select from one of the 9 predefined positions to place your watermark or put the watermark at your desired location on the image by specifying top, left coordinates or by drag and drop.
Add EXIF and other metadata as watermarks (geo tagging)
Save Watermarks for Later Use
Windows PC (Requires .Net 4 framework) or a Mac. uMark is available
uMark supports 8 languages - Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Aoao Watermark for Photo is an easy to use Photo Watermark Software provides professional photo protection solutions for your digital photos. It’s paid ($30-$200) software, trial available.
Zero Image Quality Loss and Faster Speed
Batch watermarking - watermarking 300 photos less than 1 minute
Full control over placement and size of your photo watermark
Visual Watermark is a free and paid ($20-$40) watermarking software with lot’s of features and function,
Watermark 100 Photos in Just 1 Minute
12 built-in watermark templates and appearance options help you get the watermark look you want.
Batch Rename and resize features make publishing images much easier.
Runs on Windows and Mac
Use logo and text in any combination. Fill images with watermark for strong protection, or make the watermark glasslike for unobtrusive protection.
Choose one of 260 fonts, 66 effects and 100 transparency levels to watermark your photos with your unique watermark, software allows to change watermark size and position using visual drag-n-drop editor.
Supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and BMP photo formats.
Copyright Metadata, Shadow & Background enhanced
Integrates with iPhoto on Mac
Watermark Effects Visual Watermark comes with 66 effects combinations.
Arclab Watermark Studio is an easy to use image watermarking software to add visible and transparent watermarks to multiple images and photos in a batch. It comes up with lite version and paid version ($20-$50)
Add a true-transparency watermark with custom opacity
Watermark or logo could be added at any position
Add a watermark on multiple positions
Flood-Fill with custom watermark size (mosaic)
Batch processing of directory structures
The image conversion software support jpeg, png, gif, tiff, bmp and psd images and can convert the images into the image formats jpeg, png, gif, tif and bmp.
Kigo Image Converter is a free and easy to use image converter for Windows users.
It is designed to change image format, scale image size, compress image and add watermark by batch.
This free image converting tool supports kinds of image formats, which include BMP, JPG, J2K, JPC, PNG, TIF, TIFF and more.
With the image converter's main functions, you can find the right solutions to convert images for different situations.
Image watermarking is important for reserving copyrights of your images. Who when going to re-use your images without permission you’ll never know. That’s why using a suitable watermarking software is recommended for everybody who shares images on web. So which one you use/you are going to use don’t forget to mention by comment.
Do you use Blogger platform for spreading your words out, if you do you may be looking for to sell some of your written/edited eBook, voice/music files though your Blogger site. But Blogger does not have such option (selling your stuff on blogs) by default, so how you suppose to sell these stuffs through your Blogger blog, the answer is using ‘PayPal’ shopping cart. But that option also does not offer fully functional eCommerce site. I that case there is another solution I have found, what I am going to explain here. But this shopping cart service only offers you to run a small range of eCommerce site (cause big range eCommerce site’s structure, security, SEO and customer maintaining needs whole different level of arrangement and enforcement). So read on ‘Add eCommerce shopping cart in Blogger’ and Turn your Blogger blog into little eCommerce site/shop following few steps:
Add eCommerce Shopping cart in Blogger
Some info about this cart: Features:
Can handle all currencies supported by PayPal and Google Checkout
Passed your site's Google Analytics data to Google Checkout
Handles up-to 3 option variables
Multi -language support
PayPal It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax
If you are already using PayPal shopping cart, you will find the button code is similar. On top of being certified by PayPal and Google, it has been successfully tested on humans and they absolutely love it (which means higher conversion rates for you)
Simply set the product price to 0.00 to let buyer enter their own amount.
Does not require you to register with us or install anything.
How to configure this cart: Fill up these wanted information’s,
Google Checkout's Merchant Id: 16 digits,
PayPal's Email: Your valid PayPal email address,
Site URL: Your Blogger blog’s URL,
Contact Email: notify you of the updates,
Carts Currency: select between two currency
Continue Shopping URL: After payment complete, the page’s link where client will land to get his/her paid stuff’s download link/shipping address
Cart Item: Quantity, Item Name, Amount
Shipping Cost: Shipping Cost of each additional Unit, Handling Cost and Tax (Flat amount, NOT percentage) etc if these information also involve in your cart.
After configuring, select ‘Create cart code’ button, Copy all generated codes and follow these steps:
Log in to your Blogger account, select your blog
Go to ‘New post’ and provide your stuff’s information
After all done, Click on ‘HTML’ part from upper left side of post editor (compose/html), and paste all configured codes in ‘HTML’ part, and back to ‘compose’ part
For more info see this image.
Check your blog out for see this cart in live action.
Any more information about this shopping cart available in their site and any problem related this cart can be solve at their Faq and contact page. So add eCommerce shopping cart to your Blogger blog easily and enjoy your small business. Best of luck…
Floating social share and bookmarking bars makes a blogs post sharing easier and these widget's also make blog fancy looking. though floating share bar with icons is pretty rare. So I wanted to make a floating social share and bookmarking bar with icon and here it is I am publishing. This share widget contains share a post on Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Linkedin, Pinterest, Stumble upon, Evernote, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, send by email, yahoo bookmarks also includes back to top and shows 7 service primary. All icons are beautiful rounded corner stranded sized don't bother eyes, uses a script by Share42 what perfectly optimized and got easy caching ability in web browser, icons don't make extra pressure on web server cause it uses CSS sprite formula what reduce HTTP request on server. This sharing widget will not appear on homepage, shows only on posts.
Select 'Template' tab option, click 'backup/restore' from upper right corner.
Download full template and save it on your computer's Harddrive
Installing (Mandatory step)
From 'Template' tab, select 'Edit HTML'
And find (using Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) into code snippet this line-
<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
And paste codes under <b:includable id='post' var='post'> And 'Save template'.
Preview your blogger blog and see this sharing widget's work in live.
Template Compatibility This floating Social media sharing bar with icons widget is compatible with almost all stranded templates but unique designed templates or highly coded templates will not accept this.
So what you think about this widget don't forget to mention, Stay subscriber more cool sharing widget will release soon. Chill....
Sometime some webpage we enter count as very important, and we want to save that page by printing or PDF. Doing that job instantly we basically use Printfrindly service, A free service what allows to save a webpage as PDF and Print instantly but that take little bit of work to visitors. If your webpage contains some info special you can add print/PDF button to your site very easily and that will increase your visitor engagement. And here in this tutorial I am writing about, How to add Print/PDF button to your Blogger blogs.
Add Print/PDF button on Blogger blogs
Printfrindly offers official button, Below you can see their button generator, Or click this link.
In number One step select site type ‘Blogger’
In number two step select button ‘style’
In number three step customize ‘features’
Hit ‘Install on Blogger’ Button. And that will take you to Blogger account-
After log in, ‘add page element’ and select ‘Save template’ from ‘Layout’ setting.
The ‘Printfrindly’ button will appear below post with default sharing icons.
If you don’t want the button below all posts with sharing icons:
Then from Button generator, select ‘Website’ > Choose Button > Configure > Get the codes,
Copy those codes and go to your Blogger account > Layout tab > Add a gadget > Paste following codes and Drag and drop ‘widget’ to your suitable place.
Save Template.
This button will appear on extremely modified Templates.
For those users Template does not supports/Not appearing ‘Printfrindly’ button,
Then from Button generator, select ‘Website’ > Choose Button > Configure > Get the codes,
Copy those codes and go to your Blogger account > Template tab > Search for this line
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
You will find this line twice select second one and after that line paste generated code and ‘Save template’
If Template does not contains that line/button doesn't shows up;
Then search </article> and paste code after </article>, ‘Save Template’
If you don’t want to this widget to appear on Homepage:
Then on ‘add page element’ page select ‘Edit Content’ and before all codes copy and paste this line
How this tutorial working on your Blogger blog don’t forget to mention. New widget and tutorial will be release soon so don’t forget to subscribe. Chill….
Need a simple Calculator on your little/big eCommerce site. Here I publishing a whole simple calculator for you, what is really full functional for daily accounting works again you may add this just for fun! This calculator is entirely designed with CSS, CSS3 and given life with some script codes. Developed by CSSFlow, And I just made it useable for your Blogger and Wordpress sites. Let’s see how it looks like and how to add it to your blogs, read on-
<!--crawlist.net calculator starts--><div id="fw_138353843297908119"><a href="https://www.formloop.com/Calculator-Widget">FormLoop Calculator</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://d15pwioa8qyjit.cloudfront.net/js/calc_quick_c.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pass_id='138353843297908119'; var height='320'; var width='325'; var lang_code=''; var mobile=''; formloop_cw(pass_id,width,height,lang_code,mobile); </script><!--crawlist.net calculator ends-->
How to add these widget in Blogger
Widget area:- First log in to your Blogger, select your Blog,
Go to 'Layout' tab than click 'add a gadget’
Select 'html/javascript' from pop up menu.
Copy following codes and ‘Save gadget’.
Or In post:- From post editor's top (Compose/Html)
Select 'Html' and copy and paste following codes.
How to add these widget in Wordpress
Widget area:- From dashboard hover mouse on ‘Appearance’ tab,
From ‘Appearance’ menu select 'widgets',
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box,
For new dashboard hover mouse on ‘Appearance’ tab,
From ‘Appearance’ menu click on 'Text' add it to sidebar
And paste following codes and save.
Or In post:- From post editor's top (Post/Html) select 'Html'
And copy and paste following codes.
Compatibility
These Calculator widget is compatible with most web browser.
These Calculator widget is compatible with most themes and templates. Some case if it crashes on your site remove it.
So what you think about this widget don’t forget to mention I would love to hear. New cool widget will be release soon stay connected on Facebook and Feedburner. Chill…