Performance optimization is a key element of every website development and often is not considered in the process of designing and theming. We have put together several tips which can help you to improve your site's performance from the Drupal's front-end perspective. I hope you will find these tips useful.

Use YSlow to identify problems

As on most of our projects we use YSlow as a tool for front-end performance testing and optimization. It helps us to identify problems and suggest a way to improve performance based on the set of rules for high performance websites.

QR codes are more and more often used as a marketing tool. A while ago a friend of mine wanted to promote his Twitter account on a t-shirt using a custom QR code so I have put together this Photoshop template. Download, insert your QR code, get it printed and get more followers.

Download a source file of the "Follow me on Twitter" Shirt with QR Code Photoshop Template, create your custom QR code (I have used http://createqrcode.appspot.com)

This post was inspired by http://qrazystuff.com/ where you can create and print your custom t shirts with a QR code. Twitter bird icon courtesy of Twitter.com - http://twitter.com/about/resources/logos Feel free to follow our company @mogdesign_eu and myself @jojototh

For the first time in the history the World Ice Hockey Championship arrives to Slovakia. In Mogdesign we are a big fans of our national team and certainly hope for the gold medal of our gold hockey generation. We wanted to have a nice schedule where we could watch the progress of Slovak team through the championship so we have created some resources that you might also find useful. Enjoy and wish luck to our national team. Come on SLOVENSKOOOO!!!

Schedule

Ever wanted to have a schedule handy, as your team progress through the championship? Download the excel spreadsheet or print the designed schedule.

Each month our designer Jaro Mlkvy @jaro_mlkvy - designs wallpaper calendars, some of them get showcased in the @smashingmag wallpaper posts and some of them even got to the 2010 wallpaper calendars top list by Smashing Magazine. In this quick Adobe Photoshop tutorial he will show how he made this awesome wallpaper calendar with a 3D type effect. Enjoy! Final preview:

Drupal 7 is here and now you can help creating the buzz around it and promoting Drupal with you custom Twitter background and Facebook profile images. Here is a quick tutorial on how to pimp your Twitter & Facebook profile with this awesome Drupal 7 images.

Facebook

How to: Download the images below. Change your profile pic to profile-pic.jpg and upload all other images 1-5.jpg. A a next step you will have to tag yourself on all 1- 5 images starting from 5 and going to 1. Download profile images and source PSD

Twitter