Caching CSS and JS with auto-timestamping

Probably the most challenging elements of a website to cache correctly are the CSS and Javascript files. Getting the user’s browser to cache these files is a massive speed boost…but it’s absolutely imperative that you can expire the file and deliver an update at a moment’s notice. The only way to do this reliably is [...]

Leave SiteEdit off your live site

SiteEdit is SDL Tridion’s inline editing functionality. Once enabled, your editors can browse the staging site and edit pages there and then, without having to find the item they want through the Content Manager interface. SiteEdit works by surrounding the editable elements on a page with HTML span tags. <span id=”_SE_CP” _SE_C=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CP=”tcm:113-40744″ _SE_CT=”tcm:113-162-32″ _SE_CPt=”generalfull”> [...]

Image caching in Tridion

One of the most effective ways to improve your website’s performance is to implement image caching. Without caching, every visitor downloads the same image every time they request a page. This means unnecessary load on your server and unnecessarily slow page load times for your audience. It also means search engines will take longer to [...]