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An update on my earlier post. I couldn't accept that the answers I was given from the 1 and 1 support tech were right. I was told that you can only turn CDN on or off. After doing some more research on the image caching issue, I found that this is easily possible through a direct account with Cloudflare. I also found that 1and1 has been using Cloudflare as a CDN provider for years. I can't be the only one who ever asked to clear cache or make modification beside the simple on or off switch. Here i

While getting ready for the release of the new version of this site, I was doing some testing on any device I could get my hands on. Didn't matter if it was a PC, tablet, android device or an iDevice. My hopes was that I would see similar updates reaching all devices at the same time. Granted, that wouldn't happen if I didn't make sure to clear local cache on the device I was testing. But... I made sure that was done. Here is what I found that surprised me.

It's been a long time in the works. After having taken one step back, I was able to finally catch up to where I was.

During the process of expanding the development site to include more structured data types I found a few things that need tweaks and other items that need a total reworking. I am in hopes that after doing a final round of testing and validation that this will be the model that I use going forward. Here is what I did.

This morning I woke up all excited to find out if my Cloudflare CDN had propagated. After doing some testing through 1&1's own website speed tool and many runs through GTmetrix on a global scale. I wasn't seeing any indication or validation that the CDN was working. So, I called 1&1 support. Here is what I found. delivery

Between running tests to see if my Cloudflare CDN has populated, I have been reading CDN reviews and looking over different options. In my research I found an excellent resource.

It's all about speed! Adter spending part of my morning pushing out the AMP feature to the development site, I started looking at the cost and possible website speed increase from using a content delivery network (CDN). Here is what I found.

While testing the article AMP (accelerated mobile pages) with the Google AMP Test. I found something that I hadn't run into before.

Pagination is a common feature in any listing page. With the amount of development articles I have been posting, I quickly realized, I was going to need to address paging. But I didn't want to just accept the standard implementation.

My plan didn't come all together yesterday or today. I wasn't really able to knock items off my list. I did, however, manage to make some serious progress on images. During the process I also learned some new things ways to improve my web design and graphic design workflows.