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There are a bunch of ways to increase the performance of your website. Many today are using image sprites and/or icon fonts. They help add a visual flair to your website, but also help decrease load times. This is all great, but you shouldn’t just jump into using either of these solutions without first knowing what their advantages and disadvantages are. Image Sprites Recent sprite I worked on from footaction.com Image sprites let you pack a large number of complex images into one. They can be any color , shape or size, just like the one from Google above. Advantages Probably the biggest advantage when using an image sprite is the complexity of the images that you can include. This is where they have a clear advantage over an icon font, as icon fonts are very simple and can only be a single color. Image sprites are just a large collection of individual images, so it doesn’t matter what you put onto them. An image sprite can also fit as many images ...

The web is a rapidly evolving universe. An important part of our job as front-end developers is keeping up to date and staying close to new tools, trends and workflows. Hundreds of blog posts and articles are published every day, but there is no way you can read all of them. We think you should have a strategy to keep up to date, so we have created this recipe. Follow these simple steps Follow cool people Find the best sources Attend conferences Get your own sources Follow cool people Front-end leaders help you to stay on top of relevant news and trends. They are in-the-know and they work on a specific topic. Twitter can be a great place to find people who are in-the-know. Addy Osmani @addyosmani JavaScript Alex Sexton @SlexAxton JavaScript Angelina Fabbro @hopefulcyborg JavaScript Angus Croll @angustweets Jav...