Summary: Episode 189 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week we have the full panel, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #189: Websites Got Fat (MP3, 38:58, 37.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as 30% page weight increases, are responsive images worth doing, the demand for different platforms when selling websites and more! googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Average Page Weight Increases 30% in 2012 – SitePoint referring to Optimizing large font files for @font-face | Kevin Dees and Yahoo! Smush.it™ What’s Powering the Internet? Flippa’s In-Demand Platforms How should we handle responsive images? | Boagworld – Web & Digital Advice Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/189. Host Spotlights Patrick: Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web – The Oatmeal Louis: vimtips (vimtips) on Twitter Stephan: Learn how to make Data Visualizations with D3.js Kevin: Retro Game Crunch • Six Games in Six Months Interview Transcript Louis: Hello. Welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We got a full-panel show back together this week to discuss the last few weeks’ events and happenings in the world of the web. Hi, guys. Kevin: Hi. Stephan: Hi. Louis: How is it going? Patrick: It is going great. Kevin and I were just together this past weekend, in Raleigh, North Carolina, for IndieConf, which is a conference for independent web professionals, freelancers, solo entrepreneurs, and so on. Kevin did a great job talking about pragmatic WordPress development. I performed at a satisfactory level. Right, Kevin? Kevin: Patrick had one person tell him that he spoke a little fast, so Patrick got a 99.9 out of 100. Louis: Right, OK. Kevin: It was a lot of fun, a great event; a lot of freelancers, developers, programmers, and people of all stripes. It was pretty cool that we had a listener come down from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her name was Meg Prescott. On Twitter, she is @meg_at_e_lys. I realize that is not the easiest Twitter name to spell out. Louis: That is an awesome Twitter handle. Patrick: I spoke slowly there. She is an associate professor of computer technologies at Great Bay Community College, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and again, came about 760 miles, so that was really cool. She came just because we mentioned it on the show, and mentioned how we would be there. Louis: Holy . . . That is extremely impressive. Patrick: It was awesome. She was really nice. She attended both our sessions, also. We had a great time chatting with her afterward, at the networking event. Really, it was really cool. Louis: That is awesome. That probably takes the cake for Listener of the Year. Kevin: Yes, I would agree. I am going to vote 10-stars. Louis: I know it is still November, but I think . . . Patrick: Everyone else is going to stop listening then, because they are out of the running. That is great. Louis: They are going to say, ‘Ah, no.’ Cool. I was also away on the weekend. I was at Rails Camp, in Tasmania. It was a lot of fun. Patrick: Oh, yes? Louis: If you do not know what a Rails Camp is, find one in your area and go to it, even if you are not a Rails developer. Half the people [...]
