Aleph Studios

Anna Maria College Online was the first site that I developed since installing the Page Speed Firebug plugin, and I have tried to really improve on page load times. The site uses optimized images, a single minified JavaScript, and a single CSS file with 0 very inefficient rules, 3 inefficient rules, and 0 potentially inefficient uses of :hover out of 165 total rules.

The most interesting part of the Lewis University Online project, developmentally, was a Flash-like slide show that uses script.aculo.us’ Effect.Move. It’s so smooth that the designer and I just kept referring to it as ‘the Flash thing’ to keep things simple. In terms of on-page SEO, I was able to insert a good number of meaningful heading tags.