This is my latest craze. I’m trying to figure out ways of keeping my code fast, minimum, and attractive. Some success, some nightmares.
One particular nightmare is the Amazon ads I have on my
website. They just take forever to load. Then, I tried using
YSlow for
Firebug by Yahoo that checks webpages against 13 parameters considered essential for optimum speed, and the Amazon code was all over the place making requests, loading slow and what not!
That decides it. I can do without their money. In the next site update, I’m going to be chucking out all those Amazon ads from all pages that matter to me - which basically means just stopping using them completely.
I am not wondering whether I want to use server side includes to speed up things even more rather than repeating large chunks of code. Thinking about it. If I do it, its going to be in the next upgrade of my site (which is like an eternal project)
Meanwhile, I found something I really liked on first sight - a super fast Ajax based theme for blogger -
Neo. It sounds so good, that I’ll probably be using and customizing this for ever after once I am convinced of its efficiency and hassle free existence.
I’ve installed it on another blog of mine -
Hoofprints on the mountainside. Feel free to take a look and make suggestions comment or whatever, or simply head over to the main site and see how it works there.
