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Web Statistics & Trends

Stacey Rawling — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:31:26 +0000

Everyone uses a different browser these days. The most popular options are Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, which make up close to 98% of the internet market share of browsers, with IE dominating the market.

When building a website it’s important for all designers to make sure their website is usable across all major media, whether its a popular browsers, mobile devices, or any other web browsing devices. However hours of valuable time is wasted debugging IE6, it’s complete lack of web standards support is a royal pain in the arse.

Statistics below were taken from W3Schools. Another useful resource is the Wiki

2010	IE8	IE7	IE6	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera
April	16.2%	9.3%	7.9%	46.4%	13.6%	3.7%	2.2%
March	15.3%	10.7%	8.9%	46.2%	12.3%	3.7%	2.2%
February	14.7%	11.0%	9.6%	46.5%	11.6%	3.8%	2.1%
January	14.3%	11.7%	10.2%	46.3%	10.8%	3.7%	2.2%

Create your own Dunkin’s Donut!

Stacey Rawling — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:23:13 +0000

Rather cool way of interacting with the consumer. Click Here to create your own Dunkin’s Donut!

Using the Mac OS X Toolbox

Stacey Rawling — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:40:25 +0000

With the help of Mac OS X The Missing Manual, ive been exploring my iMac. I found a few cool utilities that i want to share with you.

DigitalColor Meter
Instead of having to download colorzilla, you got the perfect little utility already on your iMac. DigitalColor Meter captures the exact colour value on your screen. It can even display the colour value in Hex form, perfect for matching colours in web design.

Whois
Within network utility, whois gathers information about the owner of any domain.

Disk Utility
Can create electronics versions of disks or folders that can be exchange electronically with other people.

30 Tips for Beginners in Web Development

Stacey Rawling — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:39:45 +0000

Heres a useful article from Netnuts, 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners. Wish i had something like this when i was designing my first website, luckily i work with a great team of web designers

Debugging using Firefox on a mac

Stacey Rawling — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:13:22 +0000

Its just a big pain in the bum, when you prefer to debug using Firefox in dreamweaver but all you get is a “Page Load Error” message. After doing some research on the web, the reason why it does this is because of the way Dreamweaver creates the url on a mac. The solution is to change the url, however its only easily fixed if you remember this, otherwise just copy the url from safari in to firefox

From this
file:///G/Design
to
file:///Volumes/dc-thehutgroup/Design