If you ask me, Wibiya takes the cake on this one and leaves it’s competitors far behind. Wibiya is definitely the best Web Tollbar out there that is free in terms of both money and Ads. You can see an example of this toolbar inaction at the bottom of my site.

Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
Their platform offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications. Read the rest of this entry »

About 7 years ago, the browser wars were over. Internet Explorer had become the de facto standard, and for a while, there were very few compatibility issues in web page design.

Today’s browser wars make the late 90’s look like a minor skirmish. In addition to Firefox and IE, we’ve got multi-platform versions of Safari, Opera, Chrome, and a wealth of mobile phone browsers. In addition, there are multiple versions of all these browsers, many of which have different rendering idiosyncrasies (I’m talkin’ about you, IE6/7/8). Read the rest of this entry »

I found this excellent article which discusses in detail the best practices how you can speed up your website. Have a look, you won’t be disappointed.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html