Design tools

Mobile web optimization requires teamwork; it's not just the developer's job to enhance the performance of a website. Project plan, designs, developments, and QA all should be linked together to achieve a performance goal. If we take the designers, they play a huge role in developing a website. So, they have to be involved when they do their visuals. For example, we all know how flawed designing websites with software like Photoshop is.

I think the more it gets discussed, the more we realize that, as with any tool, Photoshop has many positives as well as negatives. We'll never fully get rid of image manipulation software in the design process and, frankly, that shouldn't be the goal. But it's important to consider what shortcomings it has so that our process can take them into account.

One valid concern about spending too much time in Photoshop versus the browser is that you see a picture of a website under ideal situations and at a particular, exact size. This is frequently cited...