I love Romania! Why? Because is my country, that’s why. Because is beautiful and unique, with more then 2000 years of history,(my ancestors are Burebista and Decebal-”The Brave One” king of Dacia- you can find his face on Trajan’s Column in Rome )

Why so much bad and free publicity

Take a look of this slide to understand that Romania isn’t only “grey sky”, but very blue…

Discover the unseen Romania

There are some young people like me , maybe like you, trying to show the world the unseen Romania. It’s not a difficult job to do that, you must be an open mind and look for the treasures hidden in this interesting country.

Unseen Romania

Ho can we improve the speed loading of our websites?

Recently I’ve read a book: High Performance Web Sites written by Steve Souders (Chief Performance Yahoo).

After reading this book I’ve apply some optimizations for the improvement of the download speed  in different browser. One in particular i want to talk about is reducing the http requests by using one simple css image (css sprite) for the the entire  layout (if simple one). Normally the browser can do a limited numbers of http request at the time , some 4 some 8 some more, depends on the browser and browser version. If i have one big image for the layout, i will have only one http request instead of 20 or more. Another thing that I’ve notice  is that 20 small .gif or .png images weighs more (3-4 times more) than the single big image so in terms of band usage you will gain also. When you do such a simple optimization the benefits are a lot, because you live space for http requests for other elements that need to be downloaded such javascripts, html or others.

I’ve created a layout using a css sprite image here Chamonix Guide and the image is this one

To test your site and see ho many http request are made on the page load you can use yslow

Cortina d’Ampezzo is the “Dolomite Pearl”, a beautiful ski resort in north Italy, surrounded  by the Dolomite Mountains. In 1956  in Cortina were held Winter Olympics while in 1988 it came second on the list of preferred locations, immediately after Calgary, Canada.

The website for this city i’ve just finished to design. The color palette were inspired using an image representing the Dolomiti Mountains, the tool i’ve used was a color palette generator

Cortina Tourism

The web site is in 8 languages, and you’ll find information about accomodation, tourist attractions and culture.
For more details visit the website: cortina-tourism.com