Techniques and Web Technologies
Did you ever try to resize many images at once? I did, and I wrote PHP script for that purpose. Anyway, after I selected few images from my photo album, I realized that every image was about 500KB and resolution of 1600×1200. This seems too big. Images should be smaller and lighter for upload.
New WordPress installation with few modules can give only 3.44 requests per second. After turning on MySQL cache and PHP cache, site becomes 150% quicker. This can be done on MySQL and PHP level. On the other hand if your site is installed on shared host, you probably have restricted access and you can’t edit my.cnf nor install APC. You can only install cache module like WP-Cache is, to improve speed.
Popularity means more traffic or we can say more requests per second. Did you ever measure how many requests per second your Web server can handle and how to improve it? This article should give the answer and show how to increase quickness of Web applications like WordPress, phpBB, Joomla …
After finishing all tasks from the previous article LAMP setup, now is time to move on. LAMP server is secured and waiting for Apache and PHP configuration.
Page about making transparent PNG image regardless FireFox and Internet Explorer and how to create transparent PNG image with GIMP.