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I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about what would be the best way for us to explore together the many different techniques of website optimization. I think I\u2019ve found an approach that should be a bit of fun for everyone.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about what would be the best way for us to explore together the many different techniques of website optimization. I think I\u2019ve found an approach that should be a bit of fun for everyone.<\/p>\n
In this series, I am going to build a website step-by-step that we can use as a central point of discussion for website optimization. This will be an entirely public project and I will keep coming back to this series over time. I\u2019m hoping that by using concrete illustrations, it will make the process of building and optimizing a website easier to understand.<\/p>\n
While it really stretches beyond actual optimization, I think it is useful for me to start at the very beginning and build a website from scratch. There are still some people with static websites that might be interested in taking the plunge and moving to a new platform<\/a>. Starting from square one will give me the opportunity to talk about that and the many other decisions that go into making a quality website.<\/p>\n Now, here is how I can really use your help on this one…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I named this blog the Website Optimization Caf\u00e9 because I want to encourage coffeehouse-style discussion and debate. Website optimization is not an exact science, and I don\u2019t know it all. While I hope you can learn something from me along the way, I know that I\u2019ll learn a lot from your comments and I\u2019ll be reading them very closely.<\/p>\n This is not going to be near as much fun without hearing what you have to say. Please feel free to comment, and I will do my best to answer any questions that you may have. As way of honoring your contributions, I\u2019m going to make a credits page in the new website so that I can thank and link to the Top 20 readers that I feel have made a significant contribution to the discussion over the course of this project.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t expect any kind of rush here \u2013 I\u2019m not sure how long this is going to take, but I want to make sure that I cover every significant aspect that I can think of along the way. Given the length of time involved this is going to give me an excellent opportunity to highlight changes in technology that impact website optimization along the way.<\/p>\n Interested in joining me in the caf\u00e9? Subscribe to the RSS feed<\/a> and keep up to date with the latest.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/b> The Website Workshop is taking shape over at Bizquarium<\/a>. Sign up for the RSS feed at Bizquarium<\/a> to stay up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about what would be the best way for us to explore together the many different techniques of website optimization. I think I\u2019ve found an approach that should be a bit of fun for everyone. Let\u2019s optimize a website together! In this series, I am going to build a website […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This is a caf\u00e9, not a classroom<\/h2>\n
The lazy way to build a website<\/h2>\n