Posts Tagged ‘Website Design’
IE6 Will No Longer Be Supported
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Last week Google announced that they will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6.
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
Since Google’s sites (Gmail, Docs, Apps, Calender, etc.) will no longer support IE6, it should come as no surprise that MCGWD will officially no longer support that browser either (Actually, I stopped supporting IE6 the first of 2010, and this very site is unsupported). This basically means websites will still render with IE6, but it may not always look pretty, or display the same way as newer browsers will.
By no longer maintaining support for this old and insecure browser, I will be able to decrease development time, thus reducing the costs passed onto my customers. It’s a win-win. However, if your project does require IE6 support, please let me know up-front. I can still add IE6 support to new projects, but beware I will need to charge extra to do so. Also, I have no intention of dropping support for IE7+ anytime soon.
Please Upgrade Now
For both performance and security reasons, I always recommend using the latest version of your chosen browser. Please consider upgrading now, by selecting one of the browsers below.
Posted in Company Information, Website Design. ⋅ Tags: IE, Internet-Explorer, Website Design
2008 Web Design Survey
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
A List Apart is once again calling all web designers, developers and everyone else who makes websites, to take their annual survey.
Posted in General. ⋅ Tags: Website Design
Top 10 Free Online Website Design Tools
Monday, September 10th, 2007
The following is a list of my top 10 favorite online website design tools. Best of all, they are all free services. Let me know if I’m missing something special here.
Note: I intentionally left-out validation and testing type services. They will be covered in another post later.
- Em Calculator
Converts pixels to ems. Great for converting fonts from px to ems without reducing the base font size to 62.5%. - Lorem Ipsum Generator
Generate paragraphs of classical Latin literature from 45 for use as “dummy text” for your mock-ups and layouts. - The Hivelogic Enkoder
The Enkoder helps protect email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to people. - Kuler
Color inspiration from Adobe Labs. Quickly find, create or share harmonious color themes online, then download the colors as swatches to be used in PhotoShop. - XML Sitemap Generator
A fast and easy to use online sitemap generator that creates not only an XML sitemap (to be submitted to Google), but also a sitemap in text format (to be submited to Yahoo!). - FavIcon Generator
Easily create a favicon (favorites icon) form most image formats. A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu and is a good way to brand your site and increase it’s prominence in your visitor’s bookmark menu. This generator by Dynamic Drive even supports transparency when using a gif or png. - hCard Creator
A simple form from Microformats.org to create hCards. hCards are a type of vCard in semantic XHTML that enables applications to retrieve its information directly from web pages without having to reference a separate file. - StatCounter
A reliable, invisible and highly configurable hit counter that offers tons of real-time detailed web stats. Through your own profile, manage all the sites you create and setup profiles/permissions so your clients so they can analyze and monitor their own stats too. I find this to be even more informative then Google Analytics! - IconFinder
A search engine that queries icons to use on your website with “Creative Commons” or similar type licenses. Not sure if this constitutes as a tool but it sure is a handy time saver. - TypeTester
A tool for selecting type primarily for screen as PhotoShop mockups are rendered somewhat different when you slice your PSD into a HTML/CSS layout. TypeTester enables you to see how type will look in its’ natural environment – a web browser.
Posted in Website Design. ⋅ Tags: tools, Website Design