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Make sure your website works in all the relevant browsers

Danny BermantBrowsers
There has been a lot in the news lately about the recent court ruling that forced Microsoft to offer its European customers alternative browsers to Internet Explorer. 

As a result, there are a lot of new browsers that are likely to be widely used. This could potentially be a nightmare for web designers, but it doesn’t have to be. There are 4 different rendering engines used by the different browsers. Provided you are are know what they are, you only need to test your website on 4 different browsers instead of 12.

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Google and language recognition

Danny BermantSEO
Google have posted some useful guidance on their blog about creating multilingual websites. 
 
By sticking to only one language per page and avoiding side-by-side translations, you are making it a lot easier for them to determine the main language of your page. Google recommend using the same language for all elements of a page: headers, sidebars, menus, etc. Remember, Google ignores all code-level language information, from “lang” attributes to Document Type Definitions (DTD).
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Reducing the page loading times on your website will help your Google ranking

Danny BermantGoogle, Website design, Website usability

It was recently reported that Google has started ranking webpages by the speed with which they load.

With this in mind, we have just added a speed tool to our Content Management System so that external javascripts and css files get compressed and merged into just a couple of files. Overall, it reduces the number of requests on a web page by 4 and reduces the overall page size by around 20k. Not a huge difference you may think, but it could be enough to aid your search engine ranking. More importantly, a second or two improvement in the page loading speed could mean the difference between visitors seeing your home page and visitors giving up and going elsewhere.
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How to get yourself hired via Google Adwords

Danny BermantGoogle

I found the following brilliant tip on www.bmyers.com about how to exploit Google Adwords in order to get noticed by employers. I thought I’d share it with you…

 A lot of people are looking for jobs these days. And many are finding it difficult to get interviews with the companies they want to work for.

 

Alec Brownstein had the same problem, but found a solution.

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I love my iphone, but it’s not the only smartphone out there

Danny BermantiPhone / iPad
I have to say, the new iphone is pretty awesome. With 3 months left on my existing iphone contract, I fully intend to upgrade, but in the 15 months since I bought my phone, something has changed. The iphone no longer stands out the way it once did. There is a lot more competition, and some of the handsets out there are really giving Apple a run for its money. Just take a look at these: http://www.htc.com/europe/product.aspx.
 
Yes Apple may still have by far the most apps, but other systems such as Google’s Android are catching up. Couple this with the fact that Apple STILL don’t support Flash and it’s no longer clear to me that the iphone will continue to be the "Rolls Royce" of smartphones.
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How a home page slideshow can improve the conversion rate of your website

Danny BermantWebsite design, Website usability
As broadband speeds get ever faster, people also expect to find what they are looking for quickly. This not only means having a fast loading website, but it also means your visitors need to find the information they are looking for straight away. Your home page is your "shop window" and you only have a few seconds to convince potential customers before they visit your competitors. Few visitors will bother scrolling below the fold of the page to find out more about you. So how do you sell your business in 15 seconds when all you have is a 1024 x 768 screen?
 
The answer is a home page slideshow. This displays a sequence of fading images, each of which contains a description. Each slide illustrates a different element of your business and includes a link to the relevant page on your site.
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