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News currency on web sites

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Saturday June 14, 2008 )

Ever started up a blog or news section for your online business, but gave up due to lack of time? You certainly wouldn’t be the first, but that abandoned section could negatively impact on your sales.
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Even Google hates splash pages

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Thursday June 12, 2008 )

Well, that’s somewhat an exaggeration, but Google does recognize that lots of folks (me included) hate those interruptive and usually bandwidth intensive splash pages.
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Auto playing video

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Monday May 19, 2008 )

Before allowing video to automatically play when a page is loaded, there’s something very important to consider.
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A webslice of IE 8

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Saturday May 3, 2008 )

Internet Explorer 8 will be available as a more stable beta for Joe Surfer soon and one of the interesting features I’ve been reading about recently are “webslices” and how they relate to ecommerce.
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Image file sizes

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Sunday March 23, 2008 )

Working at a web hosting company gives you not only an interesting insight into common problems that ISP’s experience, but also at the user’s end as well. One of those is image file sizes.
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Status sites

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Sunday March 16, 2008 )

If you’re running a web services business; a status site can save your clients (and you) a ton of stress and frustration.
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Dialup statistics

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Tuesday March 4, 2008 )

It’s been a while since I took a look at statistics relating to dialup users in the USA… and yes, they definitely still exist. Here’s where things were nearly a year ago and how they are now.
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Screen Resolution Statistics

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Thursday February 28, 2008 )

After receiving millions of emails on the topic, actually, not quite that many; I thought it was time to take a look at how many folks are running particular screen resolutions.
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Phone numbers on forms

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Sunday February 24, 2008 )

I’ve been visiting dozens of sites today belonging to web development companies and have been surprised at the number of them that require a phone number to be entered on a contact form.
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Handy utility - PHP Info

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Monday February 18, 2008 )

Ever needed to know what version of PHP or MySQL is running on your server; what operating system or perhaps modules installed? There may not be any need to have to submit a support ticket to your host. A simple application you can run called PHP info can tell you that and so much more!
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