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If your IT support consists of your secretary’s teenage son and a system tech who visits the office once a month, then it may be time to update your IT operations. If your business has IT staffers who do manual software updates and think a service level agreement means a paycheck every Friday, then it’s definitely [...]
Blogs and various content sites have proliferated all over the world wide web, giving the average user an wide range of articles, blog posts and content to read and enjoy. But even with the proliferation of content on the internet there is one glaring error that most of these sites commit – enabling their content [...]
When setting up your website one of the most important aspects will be to choose a domain name. It’s that domain name that will stick with you for the lifetime of your site. You can change the template, change the purpose of the site, fire a designer, hire a designer, but you just cannot change [...]
Microsoft has launched the Internet Explorer 8 Beta “for Developers and Designers”. I’m too busy to take it for a spin myself at the moment, so I’ll just settle for the online commentary for now. A nice follow up to the rendering news earlier this week. Have you tested it? How does your design work [...]
Good news! Microsoft have decided to make the standards compliant mode in Internet Explorer 8 the default setting! This means we won’t have to do IE specific tags to let the browser know that we want it to display in standards mode. The what now? Default rendering modes? What? Ina Fried explains: With IE8, Microsoft [...]
Matt Harzewski of Webmaster-Source asks if Internet Explorer 5 is dead, and does a nice little bullet list of things that have happened since 1998 (which is funny since IE5 launched in 1999, which he also notes). 9 years is serious time for a web browser. There is no excuse for IE5 to exist anymore. [...]
This is both fun and stupid. John Cow (not Chow) has hacked his own site. Take a look at johncow.com, or below if it’s “saved” already. Clicking the PayPal link will reveal that the ransom money goes to cownapper@johncow.com, i.e. the John Cow fellow himself. Brilliant or madness? I don’t know, it is great linkbait [...]
So you have decided to hop aboard the freelance web developer’s train and ride it to your millions. You read all of the prerequisites like SitePoint and the new must-reads like Freelance Switch. You scoured the job boards around the net and have finally connected with your first client only to run into a major [...]
What used to be the common way of helping your community find your peers is now outlawed — reciprocal linking is now a violation against the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Webmasters are outraged over the recent change in Google’s policy, now specifically targetting what they refer to as “Link Schemes”: Examples of link schemes can include: [...]
Don’t you hate it when you’re working on a site, and you finish fighting with CSS, resolving disputes between Firefox and IE7 so everything is perfect, and then you jump over to IE6 only to discover that everything is totally screwed up? I’ve just finished some coding on a site, and I’m so sick of [...]
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