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Custom Web site Design Strategies
Web site design has certainly, in the past decade, evolved tremendously. More clients now are demanding custom design, as opposed to the 'cookie cutter' sites of yesteryear. Where once there existed a limit as to the types of fonts used, the types...
DESIGNING WITH STYLE
One important aspect of good design is to give your site a theme and coherence. A great deal of this can be done using a stylesheet. Using stylesheets is not difficult. In fact it makes the task of designing a website that much easier. However...
Does your Website Sell or Smell?
Your website does not stand much chance of selling anything if it pays scant regard to the user.
In other words your Site Visitor's experience, in terms of the following, is what will make your site sell or smell!
The following 7 guidelines are...
Drupal Modules
There are plenty of Drupal Modules that you can install for your site as add-ons. What we liked best about Drupal modules is that it already comes pre-shipped with several modules. So a standard distribution contains several useful modules that you...
Hiring Professionals: 5 Things to Look For
So you've decided that it might be best to leave web design to
the professionals, have you? Well, the unfortunate thing about
web design professionals is that not all of them are exactly
professional. Some of them are working from wildly out of...
"How's Your Sense of Style?"
No, I'm not referring to your wardrobe here, but to cascading style sheets, also known as CSS. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, it allows webmasters to separate site layout from the design. CSS is actually a standard for controlling ...
Music Phones
You sometimes see cell phone manufacturers talk about music
phones. What is it then? A music phone is a phone optimized for
playing music. The idea with music phones, smartphones and
camera phones is that one would have only one device instead...
Website Templates
Website Templates
Looking to establish an online presence? Then, your most affordable solution is to buy a web template. It is important to determine what kind of templates are there in the market before you proceed to but one. The following is...
WYSIWYG Versus Coding: HTML With A Purpose
After years of working with entrepreneurs who developed their first web site using an image-based editor, the new world of internet marketing has placed a stronger emphasis on web development that conforms to technical concerns such as search...
XHTML - Kicking And Screaming Into The Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages,...
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Bill Gates and Internet Explorer 7
Bill Gates and Internet Explorer 7
Bill Gates at the RSA 2005 Keynote announced that this summer we would see a beta version of a new completely rewritten Internet Explorer. What made Bill and the whole Microsoft family to decide to build a new version of IE before Longhorn? What features and security improvements are we going to see you may ask. Below I outline some of the new things I know of today that will be available in IE7.
Does Microsoft have a vision of having the world’s most popular browser still? Yes and so that’s why we are seeing a new version even before Longhorn is to be released. This new version will be on top of Firefox 1.0 and will be better then Firefox if the Mozilla Foundation does not stay ahead of features and what not
So what kind of new features are we seeing in this new version of Internet Explorer?
• Full CSS2 Support
• Tabbed Browsing
• Anti-Fishing Technologies
• Full PNG24 Support including Alpha Transparency
• Improved security on top of Windows XP SP2 Security Improvements
Bill said we are not releasing IE7 until Longhorn comes out
Yep he did say that but when you look at IE’s market share Bill said “Oh My IE is dropping more then I thought”. At the RSA 2005 Keynote Bill thought he would change his policy on Internet Explorer because like we all know IE6 is old, buggy, US Government even said not to use IE and all the complaining
on the IE Team blog made Bill under pressure so that’s most likely why Bill said “We are changing our plans for IE7”.
Was Bill’s decision to release IE7 before Longhorn a good idea? - Most definitely. We have been waiting for over 8 years for PNG24 Transparency in IE4.
My list of things Microsoft has fixed since Windows XP SP2
• Automatic ActiveX Download blocking
• Security
My list of things Microsoft is going fix in Internet Explorer 7
• PNG24 Alpha Transparency
• 95% better Standards Support
How can I predict IE7 has better standards support? Well currently all I use for Web Design/Development is Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the code it generates works wonders in both Firefox and Internet Explorer so I can see Microsoft is trying to improve on the standards support by a great deal.
Boy I am so waiting for this IE7. When is it going to be released?
This summer we will see Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 7. Keep up to date with the release over at the IE Team’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
About the Author
I own a Internet Marketing Information site and I run a SEO Forum. I am Microsoft follower and always stay up to date with Windows XP and Internet Explorer news.
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