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Archive for December, 2009

W3C’s gets a new look and it’s rather good

Friday, December 18th, 2009

If you’re familiar with web design then you will have heard about W3C if you’re not familiar then you might have a seen a few websites displaying a badge showing something along the lines of W3C. As long as I can remember, the website always seems very 1999 with strong bold colours and a very regimental design.

The new design features plenty of web 2.0 influences and gradients which is often associated with today’s modern web design.

The website itself contains no validation errors; which I think is amazing every page I have checked validates 100%.

Check it out… http://www.w3.org/

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Most Popular Searches Christmas 2009

Friday, December 18th, 2009

As the end of the year is approaching and just a couple of days to guarantee delivery before Christmas, what have been the hottest searches and products of Christmas 2009?

By far visits to consumer electronics increased by 16.5% between October 2009 and November 2009. Searches for toys and hobbies reached their peak during the week ending December 5th when they accounted for 13.6% of all online searches for the UK.

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Fast loading websites are the future for SEO

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Recently a lot of talk on the internet is about page load speed. Just today we were going through the Google webmasters tools; a new link was available within the labs tab called site performance.

Basically the tool provides information regarding on site performance and gives a comparison to other websites regarding page load speed. We all know how frustrating it can be when you reach a website and it takes over a couple of seconds to load, something which we didn’t mind in back in 1995.

With the average speed of internet connection in the UK being at least 3.6 megabits per second (Mbit/s) is there any excuses?

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