Website Optimization

[sdmike]

Does anyone have any great tutorials on how to make my website super sleak? I have adobe and macromedia software that I can use.

[aysiu]

Can you give an example of what you consider sleek?

[userundefine]

Code to web standards. Layout with css. Gzip content.

[sdmike]

www.spikedhumor.com
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/

or when people use images in the layers and headers.

http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/preview/musicshop/

[sdmike]

bump

[aysiu]

GIMP is a good tool for web graphics.

Here are some tutorials on using GIMP for the web:
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Creating-Complete-Website-With-Gimp-14092-1.html
http://www.gimp-tutorials.com/tutorial/Full-website-tutorial5-407.html
http://www.gimp-tutorials.com/tutorial/Make-A-Blog-With-Gimp-and-Cutenews-406.html

You may find some other GIMP tutorials handy, too:
http://www.gimp-tutorials.com/

[Peter Mount]

Here's one I like by Drew McLellan

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/extreme/five_steps.html

It was one of the articles that got me on the road to using Web Standards

Have fun