I stumbled upon this awesome sprite generator a while back. Thanks be to the awesome curators at HTML5 Weekly, CSS Weekly and Web Design Weekly and of course the developer Matthew Cobbs.
Save time. You do not need to pawn this responsibility to a designer.
Stitches An HTML5 sprite sheet generator.
A quick win for web performance. Modify your root directory’s .htaccess file to leverage browser cache. I’ve applied this solution several times and you receive instant results when testing on Google PageSpeed. This example illustrates this solution in seconds – in this case 2592000 (30 days).
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 2592000 seconds"
</ifModule>
Thanks to, Samuel Santos
I’m setting up Solr Search for my company’s domain and have stumbled onto roadblock after roadblock. Now that I’m at another obstacle my Google skills are pretty much depleted. This project is almost two weeks in with an aggressive timeline. I’ve had to resort to the Stackoverflow Gods for the first time…hopefully it works.
Here’s the link in detail, Exception in thread “main” java.io.IOException: Job failed! on Nutch 1.7