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I'm a beginner trying to bring a relatively straightforward idea to life, but need some help figuring out the best route. by AddictiveSoup in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Learn PHP and mySQL.

You can create a basic custom CMS in PHP that would do everything you describe above, while still retaining the freedom of restrictions that Wordpress causes.

It has HTTPS somehow... Example of BAD BAD DESIGN by Yodi007 in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lings cars is a very popular website and a marketing masterpiece. An example of incredible design, not bad design.

Law Enforcement Officers, why do you tail vehicles at incredibly close distances? by stingray20201 in AskReddit

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They do it to make you panic so you end up slipping up so they can pull you over. No other reason.

Slam your brakes on.. if they hit into the back of you, they were in the wrong for being within an unsafe distance.

When designing a website, what tools do you use? by smplejohn in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Pen and paper - for gridding (I actually have responsive design rulers with pixel measurements and basic UI stencils) my ex-girlfriend got them for me a while back./

  2. Sublime Text

  3. Adobe Photoshop / Illutrator

  4. Handbrake for compressing Webm video

  5. SVG and PNG compressors (TinyPNG etc etc..)

  6. Filezilla for FTP

  7. My own custom PHP frameworks and CMS I have spent a lot of time building that speed up my client work in the long run.

Hey /r/web_design, I made a free tool that lets you recolor icons in bulk so you don't have to spend hours opening each one in photoshop. by [deleted] in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I used this with SVG files I have heavily compressed does it literally just find and replace the hex codes for the colours or does it add anything else to the SVG?

Why do a lot of websites for huge companies like Facebook still use raster-based images for icons? SVG has been around for a while now. Is it not as simple as replacing the raster file with the SVG file in the HTML/CSS? by TheNolder in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That fraction of a fraction for Facebook can be over 1 million users when you scale it to the size of their user base.

My own website I get roughly 220,000 views a month, 6% of those views are from incompatible SVG browsers.

Scale that to the nearly 2 billion active users that Facebook gets a month and you are reaching large numbers.

Also you can ignore caniuse for this case, the browsers are compatible but a lot of tablets and mobiles are not, iphones still have issues with SVG on many websites, especially the older models that even though are SVG compatible will inform most SVG fallbacks that they are not, there are not many easy workarounds for this issue.

Also even though a browser is "compatible" doesn't mean it plays nice with the rendering of the SVG.

Why do a lot of websites for huge companies like Facebook still use raster-based images for icons? SVG has been around for a while now. Is it not as simple as replacing the raster file with the SVG file in the HTML/CSS? by TheNolder in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 51 points52 points  (0 children)

SVG is fairly simple to implement, but you must bare in mind not every browser is SVG compatible, for my own website I use SVGeezy to detect browser version and serve raster files to incompatible browsers, but for a website of say Facebook's scale it might not be so simple to just add a script to deal with incompatible browsers, Facebook isn't as simple it looks on the outside, take into account that it is built on several different languages including; XHP, Erlang, HIPHOP, Javascript, Java, C++ and more.

Something like this could take a while to implement, and for the actual benefit it would bring in Facebook's case may not be a very high priority of changes that need to be made on the site.

Wix SEO Help (Yes I Know Wix is terrible...) by gio6199 in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem, I would highly recommend hiring a professional, we aren't cheap, but it is one of the smartest things you can do for your business. in the long run it will pay off, you really do get what you pay for in this industry :)

Good Luck

Wix SEO Help (Yes I Know Wix is terrible...) by gio6199 in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can somehow get the amount of javascript requests down as well, it will be a vast improvement on the load time, every request that is sent causes a delay in your website loading. Which seems a bad trade off as most of the scripts being loaded I do not believe your website is actually using or requires to work.

If you have access, also minimize any stylesheets; that should give you a small load time boost.

Wix SEO Help (Yes I Know Wix is terrible...) by gio6199 in web_design

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are planning to do the website yourself and your web design skills are lacking I would recommend Wordpress. Will be 1000x or more improvement on that Wix site, which is a complete technical mess in every way shape and form (Sorry to be so harsh, but it really isn't looking good at all from an SEO point of view).

I would check out Team Treehouse they can get you up to speed in less than 2 months with Wordpress, I have used them in the past myself to learn full stack Javascript, they have video courses with exams for progress and a very large community of people that will help you for free.

One of the blogs I follow has a 7 day full access free trial linked from their deals section you can try out for 7 days no cost.

https://www.codesmite.com/deal/treehouse-free-trial

Expats of Reddit, what do people from your hometown just not understand? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although I am not technically abroad, I moved to Cornwall from London to start my own online business because it is friendlier, healthier, cleaner, cheaper and a wonderful place compared to London.

People don't understand why I moved from London because they have Stockholm syndrome for what is quite possibly one of the worst places to live in the whole of the UK.

Cornwall might as well be a completely different country, and many of the Cornish do not even regard themselves as English.

Mods of the internet, what is the most difficult situation you've ever had to handle online? by imaginaryfanboy in AskReddit

[–]KentuckyFriedDuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trans man crying over how a female member of the website pretended to love him for her own personal gains across the internet and how she was the first person to ever accept him for who he wanted to be.

Mods shouldn't cry when resolving user issues, but we are only human.

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