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Fonts for Web Design
With the prevelance of WYSIWYG word processors today, sometimes clients wish to have web pages designed with fonts they have access to on their personal or business computers. The fact is, however, that only a few font families are available to the web designer. Anything else requires special techniques, like writing a more styled font…
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Accessibility for All
I’ve written about accessibility issues before. Designers need to create accessible websites. There is no excuse today. And the designer who stops studying, who stops learning, who stops tweaking is not a professional. There’s so much more to professional web design than throwing together a few tables, a nice background, and uploading HTML or XHTML…
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Browser Wars III – IE7 Due This Month – Ready?
Microsoft has spent forever and a day preparing the newest release of Internet Explorer. If you do not download it yourself, you will receive it via Automatic Updates in the coming weeks. While IE7 is supposed to have greater conformance with CSS standards, Windows users are still much better off with Firefox. Web designers are…
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Critical Flash Player Bug Fix
PC World reports in its October 2006 edition that Adobe has just patched a “critical bug” in the Macromedia Flash Player. If you were to simply visit a booby-trapped site, you’d be hit. According to PC World: Exploitation of the flaw could leave your PC completely compromised via memory corruption, according to security researcher Fortinet.…
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Translating Your Web Page
There are some sites on the internet that will translate your web content for free. If you want to expand your business, why not offer content in other languages? Expanding your reader base can really grow your business. Sadly, the free translations can be simply horrid. Consider this example from FreeTranslation.com: English: “Mrs. Hooker sat…
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A Win for Internet Freedom in the United States
I usually don’t talk about political issues on this blog. I have other outlets for my political views. However, I do feel it is important to take note of an important issue that came up before the United States Senate this week — or, rather, did not come up. The Net Neutrality bill would have…
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Toward the Ultimate Photo Gallery
I admit right from the start that I’m not much of a Flash person. While Flash is very nice when used in moderation, sometimes it is overdone. Google cautions against expecting great Search Engine Optimization from Flash sites. In fact, Google recommends that if you do in fact create a Flash site, create a regular…
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Searching for an Engine – II
I wrote to the creators of FreeFind. I use FreeFind on two sites, and have been happy with it. However, my sites will not validate at the W3C with FreeFind’s code. I’d like it to validate. So, I asked advice of the brains behind the engine. My request was simple: Subject: FreeFind code does not…
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Expanding Our Reader Base
I decided to expand my reader base for Shire Enterprise: the Blog, at Technorati. Technorati Profile
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Why do I want a professional web design?
This is a question that many small businesses may find themselves asking. Why not just get a web page designed quickly? Someone has a friend who dabbles in web design, so why not just let this person design my site? There are so many factors to take into consideration, and many good reasons to hire…