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World Wide Web
What’s In Your Browser?
The choice of a web browser is an important one, because this software is the portal through which you experience the Internet. Most people never switch from the one that comes pre-installed on their computer, giving Microsoft’s Internet Explorer about an 80% share of the browser market. As you may have gathered from the big logo image over there, I am a Firefox user. There are many reasons why it’s my browser of choice but one of the biggest is it’s excellent (and free) selection of Add-ons. Add-ons (also called plug-ins) are small software programs that add various features that the parent program lacks. For example, I have an add-on installed called “IE Tab”, which allows Firefox to mimic Internet Explorer when it displays web pages. This is pretty handy when I’m developing web pages and want to check for compatibility between the two browsers. It can also be useful if you visit sites that were developed just for IE. Add-ons are cool and useful (though sometimes extremely geeky) and I want to share some of them with you that are installed on the various copies of Firefox that I use.Popularity: 15% [?]
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World Wide Web
Compatibility With Safari
A friend of mine who manages a couple of web sites writes:Is there any good reason for me to install Safari [web browser]? I have no burning desire to do this, but wondered if I should be looking at Safari to see how the web sites perform on that platform. If no well known compatibility problems, I’d be happy to pass on the exercise.
From what I’ve read about Safari (I have no personal experience with it), the biggest advantage it has over Firefox is performance (this may change when Firefox 3 is released). It falls short though, of Firefox’s feature set and it doesn’t have the thousands of available plugins. I haven’t been tempted to use it as a daily browser. For compatibility testing, it would make the most sense to use it on a Mac, as that’s where the vast majority of Safari browsers are installed. Apple is getting a lot of heat for trying to “sneak install” Safari on Windows machines, along side of iTunes updates. I doubt they’re going to make much headway there.
Here’s a quick way of doing a Safari compatibility check on a single web page: http://www.browsrcamp.com/.
Popularity: 27% [?]
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World Wide Web
Where’s Google?
Jakob Nielsen is a web site usability expert. He knows what causes people pain and pleasure as they navigate around the web. Unlike most of us who became experts by just hanging around for a long time, Mr. Nielsen’s expertise comes from conducting carefully designed usability studies, using real people and real web sites. He publishes an online column called the Alertbox, which draws from these studies.
The latest installment of the Alertbox contained this shocker:
Popularity: 17% [?]
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Beginner Business, World Wide Web
Make Your Web Site Resonate
Free eBook by Skelliewag.orgThe ideas and philosophy at Skelliewag.org had a strong influence on the creation of the Internet Newcomer web site. I believe that simple design and compelling content are at the heart of any successful site.
If you are in the process of building a web site, or if you have one already, you owe it to yourself to read Skellie’s free eBook, The Simple Web. Here’s Skellie:
As bloggers and webmasters, we want most or all of these things: more visitors, more subscribers, more comments, more money, more inbound links, and more people saying good things about us. Our wants aren’t in question. It’s the how that gets us. It’s how that has us reading a dozen blogs a day, trying to find the answer (or at least a little piece of it).
You can stop searching, for now. The answer is in this eBook.
It’s true, you should read this book and try to put as much of it into practice as possible. I know I will. Here’s the link:
The Simple Web - eBook by Skelliewag.org (399KB PDF)
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