breakthrough design

An amazing article written over at Yahoo on improving page load time, reducing server/page load, and essentially optimizing your website’s performance:

• Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site


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<ul id="twitter_update_list">
<a href="http://twitter.com/YOURURLHERE" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">follow me on Twitter</a>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOURURLHERE.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script>

Change the YOURURLHERE to your actual twitter url and voila.

Is there nothing this library can’t do, or can’t be added on to do??  Here we’ve stumbled on how this jquery plugin allows you to fade background colors, images, slide colors from the side/top & even at angles.

Get the jQuery Background Position Plugin

View some Background Transition Examples

Awesome.