Tag: Guides
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The Path to Inbox Zero
Inbox Zero This is my inbox as of Thu May 28, 2015. How can this be? I manage several businesses, constantly develop websites, have account in over 200 social networks, etc. How can my inbox be empty, what’s the big trick? Are you ready for it? The obvious trick is to have a social media assistant. The key is to simply delegate all your your email and social media communications and share your inbox with…
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Why Nginx?
Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server designed to deliver large amounts of static content quickly with efficient use of system resources. Nginx’s strong point is its ability to efficiently serve static content, like plain HTML and media files. Some consider it a less than ideal server for dynamic content. – Linode.com If you’re using Apache, you’re missing out. Nginx is a small, lesser known Russian Web Server that is taking the world by…
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How to Win – Part 2
Winning is a polymathic endeavor in that, to win you need to excel at multiple areas. You need to be the better speaker, the better coder and/or the better salesman. Question is, how can you excel at multiple things simultaneously? I’ll try to illustrate my approach to this problem of personal development with some key examples. Web Development Wins When building Alsuper.com.do we had to create the best possible online catalog and provide low cost…
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How to Win
Focus on the prize. Focus on the goal. Never on your opponents. Then go to work, hard and fast and smart. Winning is an art in itself, to become a winner you need a different mindset. It all starts with your preparation. Drop the nukes, then fight the ashes Step 1. You must prepare heavily to win. That might include waking up at 4:00 am every day for a couple of years to understand the…
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Make Your Site Load in Less Than a Second
Speed is more than a number. It’s a statement. Making your site fast tells your readers that you care about their time. It tells search engines that your infrastructure is working well and it makes everything easier and smoother. You can do a lot of things to make your sites faster. Here are some general tips that are easy to implement can be implemented in a day or two: Deploy a CDN Cloudflare is free…
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Optimize your Pages to Gain Readers
Web page optimization is as hard as marathons. Thankfully, in today’s world of dynamic systems you only have to optimize a handful of templates and keep some guidelines in check. There are two main evangelical movements to make the web faster. Slow (backed by Yahoo) and PageSpeed (a son of Google). According to Yslow you need to keep the following in check: Making fewer HTTP requests Using a CDN Far-Future Expirations Last-Modified Header Removal ETag…