The best news this week and it’s only Tuesday! Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 8 will render pages via the super standards mode by default. By doing this, Microsoft listens to the critique that has fallen over the company in the past few weeks, when it announced that Internet Explorer 8 would render in the Internet Explorer 7-way by default.
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Via a special HTML-tag in the sourcecode of HTML pages, developers are able to switch between the rendering-modes the new browser houses. Microsoft implemented this function in order to make old files, not written by standards, renderable in the new browser.
But why should we adapt our browser, to people who are unable to write HTML following the standards? Thanks to Microsoft, we don’t have to. Hopefully the new ’super standards mode’ will actually follow the standards and I’m no longer shouting at people who are still using Internet Explorer, instead of Firefox or Opera to test their HTML pages!
This is the first article in a series of articles, developing the website for Ceptura Internet Solutions. Since I’m the lead developer of the team, I’ve chosen to give people a nice overview in the process of developing the website. I’m going to take you inside all the steps of the developing process, enjoy the ride!
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In the first article we’re going to have a look at the first step in the process of developing a complex website. A step that people tend to forget, and also is one of the most important but at the same time the most boring step. Researching is of great value for all new websites, especially for websites that need to be used for a few years.
Ceptura Internet Solutions is a company that would like to use the Internet for their initial contact to customers. In order to do this properly, the website must serve the customers and the company itself in a outstanding way and must perform well under all circumstances. Read more »
Anchor texts or link lables have always been a subject within webdevelopment, that doesn’t get all the attention it deserves. In short the anchor texts can determine the ranking search engines will award to the page that’s linked to.
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Links connect all the pages on the internet with each other. It’s important that people link properly, for both visitors and search engines. Anchor texts are the visible, clickable texts of hyperlinks. But why is it so important to use quality anchor texts and what exactly are quality anchor texts? Read more »
Now that CommandShift3 is running for a while, there are thousands of beautiful websites added to the database. Simply decide which, out of two shown designs you like best. With this simple A or B system, a nice ranking has developed.
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Webhypes has also joined in the competition. As you can see on Webhypes’ CommandShift3 profile, it has won some battles but there is room for improvement. Read more »
The large amount of websites that are present on the internet today makes it hard for a single website to grab the attention of the visitors. For each website there are multiple alternatives and that makes it important to grab the attention of the visitor in the first seconds of their visit.
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There are multiple ways of grabbing your visitors attention. The page where the user enters the website, wether it’s the homepage or a specific landing page, needs to make clear what the visitor can and (obviously) can’t find on the website.
Visitors of a website in the year 2008 don’t go pogosticking around to check where they can find the information they need. They want it right that moment, in the right spot, or else they will leave to find the information on another website. Read more »
