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Rediseñando Taringa

This post is written in Spanish: It covers the redesign of the HTML and CSS code for Taringa.net, a site with over 13 million page views daily. In this article, I explain how to save thousands of dollars a day by using simple web standards techniques to reduce the size of the homepage by 50%. A version of this article will be published in English in the coming days.

Luego de leer este artículo en Alt Tab, en donde se entrevista a Alberto Nakayama sobre el funcionamiento de Taringa.net, quedé bastante impresionado con la red de servidores y recursos que el sitio consume actualmente. Para un sitio como Taringa, con más de 13 millones de páginas vistas por mes, mantenerse optimizado es crucial, en el sentido en que esto implica una reducción en el ancho de banda que se consume, y por ende, en los gastos mensuales en servidores y su mantenimiento.

La gran pregunta es, ¿pueden los estándares web ayudar a minimizar los costos de funcionamiento de Taringa? En este post explico como optimizé la página principal, utilizando técnicas simples de estándares web, logrando reducir su tamaño en aproximadamente un 50%, de esta manera, ahorrando miles de dólares mensuales en servidores y su mantenimiento.

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“Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia’s idiotic philosophies.” Via @mike9r.

Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

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What another album could serve as the soundtrack for today’s Obama inauguration day? A true classic of the 80’s.

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Vivien points to 32 websites that use the gorgeous Georgia for its typesetting. Via I love Typography, which BTW, did a great realign recently.

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Recently stumbled upon Web Design Resources I Use, an outstanding collection of day-to-day tools. Via @gnz.

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Smashing Magazine has a good recopilation of the Web Design Trends for 2009. I especially like the emboss/letterpress effect; that if applied properly, can produce sites as beautiful as this one.

Introducing Modern Clix: A free Wordpress theme

It took me almost a week to simplify this design (see the previous discussion) and test it: I never thought that releasing a Wordpress theme could be so difficult and time consuming.

Modern Clix

Modern Clix, inspired by Charly García’s “Clics Modernos”

So here it is. Modern Clix is a minimal blog theme inspired in the Swiss Style of Design: It sports the trusty Arial/Helvetica pair, an ingenous grid, a generous use of whitespace for better readability and a strong focus in typography.

Download it here (146 KB). Or view a live demo in a real Wordpress installation.

Creating this theme was certainly stressful, but most of all it was real fun, so I’m planning to release more Wordpress themes in the near future. Keeping a balance between aside projects and the daily work is a goal for me in this 2009!

Thanks to Marina Torchiari for all the hard work on beta testing this theme!

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grid buildrrr is another great tool for creating layouts using grids; you can even drag placeholder ad formats into the grid. Via Subtraction.

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Comalle is an organic typeface that rescues some elements of handwritten script, but its stroke does not necessary answer to a literal calligraphy structure”. Designed by the chilean typographer Juan Pablo De Gregorio.

Comalle



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