Introducing  internet Explorer 9

The beta releases of IE9, and with each one performance has got better and better. Whilst the final release details are still being closely guarded by Microsoft, we do know a few key points for certain:

CSS

IE9 will support nearly all CSS 3 selectors, and this means support for features such as rounded corners, gradients and more – a key update that web designers can get excited about!

HTML 5
Support for HTML 5 will allow embedding of video and audio, as well as features like geolocation and the canvas element.

Javascript
IE9 has a brand new Javascript engine - ‘Chakra’. The latest release has been tested in Acid 3 (which measures web browser performance with web standards compatibility) and scored 95/100. To put this in comparison the current release of Firefox scores 94/100!

Fonts
An exciting  and often overlooked development in IE9 has been the inclusion of WOFF (Web Open Font Format) support. This looks likely to be a standard for embedding fonts, and W3C are currently looking at making this the standard font embedding method.

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Speed of website

Have you ever tried to access any website and experience that it takes ages to even download the basic information?

Im sure we all have on several occasions, pretty annoying right?

What does Google NOW say about this?

Google has now had enough of this slow loading websites and as result they are going to affect you BIG time in ranking.

The scenario is this:

take two similar sites which both share beneficial information, one of the websites was design very well with HTML, CSS, no videos, no flash, hardly any images this site loads within a few secs.

The second website looks really fancy, has all the flash, the images, videos, including all the contents and was built on tables and now takes so long to load the basic data.

The site that Google will now rank higher will be the first website as it loads quickly regardless if it has all the right contents and the backlinks. it just makes sense.

Therefore minimise the use of lots of graphics or videos.

if you have this then get a redesign as this will affect your web ranking. This should be part of good practice, regardless if Google put it in within their algorithm.

Our team at web design London always think about our web user or web visitors.

UK One Media are offering high quality website packages at extremely low prices. Starting from just £349, our websites are fully designed and come with 12 months hosting and search optimisation built in.

For more details see website design London.

This is for anyone that is thinking of getting a Content Management System (CMS) or set up an Online store.

By using word press, Open cart, Smarty, Joomla, you’ll cut costs and still have a professional looking website.

By using this applications for development you are introducing so important standards to web development. By using a web developer it would be very hard for them to recreate the fantastic work that’s already done.

For more details visit website design London site.

1. Validate HTML

Always try and validate web pages using W3C. This provides great HTML validations, which checks the validity of HTML, XHTML,  etc.

http://validator.w3.org/

2. Validate your CSS

Always use W3C’s CSS validator tool to validte your style sheets. Another great tool.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

3. Validate site links

Always use this tool to check for any broken links, as GOOGLE sometimes penalize website for broken links. W3C’s Link checker tool

http://validator.w3.org/checklink

4. Cross browser compatibility

Use this tool to check your website on all browsers. (If you dont use MAC, you can still check what it will look like as there are now a lot of MAC safari users online)

http://spoon.net/browsers/

Even if its a simple static site, do them to make the site perfect.

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We’ve been looking into the new Adobe Photoshop CS5 features and see what Adobe developers has been getting up to.

We are shocked to say that they have finally devised a new tool which allows us to erase certain areas of the images, then magically fills that area with a new background from the original background.

This tool never seen before uses an amazing algorithms created by the wizards at Adobe studios.

As a creative web designer at UK One Media, my views is that this will make my job easier when i need to do those complex editing saving me loads of time.

Rather than me ramble on and on about this fantastic tool, I’ll let you be the judge. Please let me know your thoughts. This might shock you, so you are warned.

Hello Everyone

Thank you for joining us. I want to share some tips with you on how to rank well in all search engines just by following just a few simple tips.

ok, so you have a fantastic website but its not ranked well, and you are not seeing any return on your investment?

How do you get your site to start ranking well?

The only way is to increase your website site traffic. For those of you that think that by having a great website out there you’ll automatically rank well, — NOT so.

Search engines are very sophisticated this days and they know your site is fairly new and will generally not have any interest unless others do. When you get lots of views that’s where raising your traffic comes in.

The benefits are simple – the more people that visit your site the chances of it transferring into more sales and more sales means more business.

Tips on how to help rank well on Search Engines.

Step 1

We suggest advertising your site, clearly identifying the type of services you are doing on your website. Your marketing materials should always have your URL on them. Also include them on your advertisements, email signatures, business cards, letter heads etc…

Step 2

Links exchange is very important way to be found in google search engines, so get posting but be careful not to post too much as Google can sometimes penalize you. Always start with website that carter for similar services as yours.

step 3

Search engines are regularly scanning web pages on a daily basis for new and relative content.

When people search the Web for content that matches the copy on your site, your site will come up in natural results.
To increase your chances of getting noticed, make sure header tags and meta tags feature the search terms you want to be known for. Put some of these terms throughout your copy if you haven’t already. You can also switch links with other sites to gain more popularity.

step 4

Use pay-per-click. If you do this, which entails purchasing keywords, you will have to pay.

Step 5

Create a blog for your website, this will always gather fresh contents and increase traffic to your site.

Tip 5 – Design for all Screen Resolutions:

A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.