Hello there. Maybe it is helpful to know what tools and programs I use for my work. And maybe it is helpful to know what I do when I am done with the "basic design" of my sites. Ok, let's start: 1. Photoshop (I use CS3 in the office and CS5 at home) 2. Notepad++ (for CSS, JS and XHTML coding) 3. Firefox 3.6.8, IE 8, Chrome 5, Safari 5, Netscape 9.0.0.6, Opera 10.60 4. Addons for Firefox * Firebug (for debugging) * Firefox Throttle (to limit bandwidth) * Page Speed * YSlow * Measure It * LORI * Live HTTP Headers * FireShot * Hammerhead * HTML Validator * CSS Validator * ColorZilla * GridFox * WebDeveloper 1.1.8 After done with the graphics I begin to "code" the html/css and maybe adding some jQuery stuff, ... Most of the time I use the following directory structure: css images js index.html (other files) ... When done with that I start to combine the css files. Sometimes this is not really possible when you work with a css framework or some structures like a master page in ASP.NET. After I combined as much css files as possible I do the same with all javascript/jQuery files. Now I upload all files to one of our webservers. When done I open the site in Firefox, starting Firebug and head over to Page Speed ... now I start analyzing. Page Speed is very very helpful. It shows me exactly what to do and it also minifies css/js files and compresses all graphic files. I download every minified/compressed file I need (if I did not minify css/js before) and reupload to the webserver. To find out how my design looks on other browsers I use browsershots.org as next step. Another nice tool is feng-gui.com where you can "find out" where most of your visitors will look on your website. It is a heatmap tool. Helpful stuff. Ok, now I think that many people do not have serveral servers with domains and a cookieless domain. To speed up your site to the maximum you should do every step that Page Speed tells you in it's report. This is sometimes a long way to go, but Google will say "Thank you" for it
Yes mate. Just to see if the design works in Netscape too. I dropped only support for IE 6 and lower yet.
Who uses Netscape? Last market study I saw it had less than 0.7% of the market! In fact, isn't the last version actually based on Firefox?
Thank you daskar. @drhowarddrfine Anyway I use Netscape 9.0.0.6 just to see if the layout works in that browser too.