I’m currently working on a webdesign with a centered div, and what’s really irritating is that in Firefox the entire div moves when the content goes below the screen length. Firefox shows the scrollbar and moves the entire page abit to the left. Why does it do that?? IE doesn’t! I have tried with the latest beta of Firefox 3, and same thing happens there.
Read MoreAfter the failure of getting Script Compressor to work, I decided to test out PHP Speedy by Leon Chevalier. A plugin that is suppose to to the same thing as Script Compressor.
There is one big difference though.. PHP Speedy works!
I timed the average load time of my blog page with, and without, the plugin activated. Here are the results:
| Without PHP Speedy | 1.12s |
| With PHP Speedy at default settings | 1.19s |
| With PHP Speedy, gzip page on, and footer text/image off | 0.97s |
As you can see the default settings didn’t work too well with me. But then again. I only have a small css file, and no javascript. Given a “heavier” site I think the default settings would work better. But as you see when I tweaked to settings a bit you see the plugin doing it’s job! Well done!
I downloaded and installed the Script Compressor plugin with the intent to check how much faster the blog would load with scripts compressed. I don’t have much javascript on my site, so I thought I would start out with just the css compression.
Read MoreFound this great post on Pro Blog Design. If you are not changing themes often, this is a great tip.. to delete dynamic tags from you theme, to improve server load.
Some day I will do a speedtest on this 
Speed up your postview using paginated comments
If you have a post with a lot of comments, surely it must be some speed gain from just showing, say ten at the time? To test this I installed the Paginated Comments plugin by James Maurer and created a test post with 12 comments. I configured the plugin to show only 10 comments (this is in fact the default setting), and started testing.
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