SLO County News BlogGolf, Wine, Real Estate, Business & Travel NewsRespect for SLO DialersFriday, October 08, 2004As hard as it is for our clients to believe, until last week SLO Pages did all its web development from a dial-up connection - over old phone lines maxing out at 26kps. Located in rural San Luis Obispo County, deep in a canyon, DSL, Cable and Wireless simply aren't available. But we do have a view of the southern sky, so last week we did it - we got connected via Satellite. What a difference!We were reluctant to give up dial-up mostly out of respect for those many website visitors still surfing SLOw. At SLO Pages, we have made it a point to design and implement websites that are not only accessible to those with certain physical disabilities - via use of web standards - but to those with a connection handicap - dial-up. We've become masters in sending less data with less round trips to the server. Now that we're on satellite, we promise to remain thoughful of our SLOw patrons. Here's a three-part series that outlines many of the common sense approaches we've already been taking. Cost-Effective Website Acceleration - sitepoint Read More
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