I have been tweaking my blog lately. I tried to make it more personalized and feature-loaded.
First, Inttended is with a new blog layout. Thanks to eBlogTemplates for this free 3-column layout, originally created by Blogging Secret. Second, the widget from LinkWithIn found at the bottom of every post.
As always with freebies, it does not come custom fit to what we want. I studied the pre-built layout and removed the items and elements that the creator has incorporated. You too have to study what you have before accepting or uploading it to your site. Usually, these free templates have built in ads already. Just take extra care because this does not auto-configure the scripts to use your account with AdSense or AdBrite, etc. In other words, the scripts of the ads have the creators account so any clicks on these ads will go to his credit and not to yours. Clever!
After uploading the new template, run a page load test. This will give you an idea of how optimized is the new template. Again, take extra care in manually editing the HTML codes. Remove the page elements which do not show properly because this take up load time too.
Optimization does not end here, though. I think this will be a regular maintenance task to our sites. There are many webmaster sites around that provide an array of tools for web optimization.
First, Inttended is with a new blog layout. Thanks to eBlogTemplates for this free 3-column layout, originally created by Blogging Secret. Second, the widget from LinkWithIn found at the bottom of every post.
As always with freebies, it does not come custom fit to what we want. I studied the pre-built layout and removed the items and elements that the creator has incorporated. You too have to study what you have before accepting or uploading it to your site. Usually, these free templates have built in ads already. Just take extra care because this does not auto-configure the scripts to use your account with AdSense or AdBrite, etc. In other words, the scripts of the ads have the creators account so any clicks on these ads will go to his credit and not to yours. Clever!
After uploading the new template, run a page load test. This will give you an idea of how optimized is the new template. Again, take extra care in manually editing the HTML codes. Remove the page elements which do not show properly because this take up load time too.
Optimization does not end here, though. I think this will be a regular maintenance task to our sites. There are many webmaster sites around that provide an array of tools for web optimization.
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