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Pressflow

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Fri, 2009-11-06

press flow

Pressflow is a derivative of Drupal core providing enhanced performance, scalability, and data integrity. Swipht is evaluating Pressflow to use on all of our Drupal installs.

What is rel=canonical?

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Fri, 2009-03-20

First, let's start with the rel attribute. According to the W3C, the rel attribute describes the relationship of the current document to the linked one. Most common use of the rel attribute is for css: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styles.css" /> That's saying /css/styles.css is the stylesheet for this page. Easy, right? There are many other relationships, which can be found on the W3C site.

Image Optimization Tools

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Mon, 2009-03-23

One of the yslow techniques for improving client-side performance is to optimize your images. But how? Even though I have a few years of using Photoshop, I still haven't mastered how to best optimize images coming out of it. There are a few tools that can help us out with this task.

@import and why I don't use it

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Mon, 2009-04-13

There are 4 ways to add styles to a page:

  1. Inline style attribute on an element
  2. <style> block
  3. <link> tag
  4. <style> with @import

We all know why you shouldn't use inline, and unless there's a really good reason, you probably shouldn't use the <style> block either. But to be honest, I knew nothing about using @import until recently. So what exactly does the following code to?

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