This article was contributed by Darshan. We all love faster loading websites and so do the search engines, but is your website loading as fast as possible? Should you invest in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve the speed of your site? What is a CDN? Hosting your files on a content delivery network is one of the best ways to speed up your site, and can often save up to 60% bandwidth. CDNs work by hosting your files across a large network of servers around the world. When a user visits your site from New Zealand, they are downloading files from the server that is closest to them. This reduces the load on any single server, making the site faster. Let's find out if you need a CDN or not, and how to get started with a CDN. CDN Background Check Before coming to any conclusion, we need to make some background checks. It will help us decide the precise route for your website speed optimization. Nature of your website: This is an important one as there are some domains like news, gadgets, lifestyle, travel, and food which are bound to have plenty of images on a single page […]

Things come and go with the passage of time, but user experience will always be paramount. The evolution of UI and UX design is something to behold, and thing may... The post Best Approach to UX this 2017 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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When building a WordPress website, it's often useful to provide content or functionality based on a user's role or capabilities. For example, you may want to display some special content... The post How to Display Content Based on WordPress User Roles appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Here is a quick Java programming tutorial that teaches developers how to obtain a list of every time zone using the java.time package and the java.util library. Enter the following Java code example into your code editor or integrated development environment (IDE) to see how to list time zones: */ import java.time.*; import java.util.*; public […] The post How to List Time Zones in Java appeared first on Developer.com.

On the Laravel News site there's a quick announcement about the return of a Laravel-centric event to New Delhi - LaravelLive India.

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To err is human. Errors occur when people engage with user interfaces. Sometimes, they happen because users make mistakes. Sometimes, they happen because an app fails. Whatever the cause, these errors and how they are handled, have a huge impact on the user experience. Bad error handling paired with useless error messages can fill users with frustration, and can lead to users abandoning your app. In this article, we'll examine how the design of apps can be optimized to prevent user errors and how to create effective error messages in cases when errors occur independently of user input. We'll also see how well-crafted error handling can turn a moment of failure into a moment of delight. The post How To Design Error States For Mobile Apps appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

If you are a web developer who cares about quality, most probably you have heard of Selenium and the advantages of using such a tool for test automation. Now, if you are a mobile developer, you might know how much harder it is to test your app due to the existence of different platforms, different OS versions and even variety of devices.