Hopefully you haven't missed it. June 17th is the official Firefox 3 download day. They are trying to set a record for the most number of downloads in a single day. While it got off to a slow start (servers weren't able to handle all of the traffic), it got much better. Many people like Firefox because it is faster than most other browsers. While there are a few sites which will only work with Internet Explorer, any standards compliant web application will work probably better in … [Read more...]
posted on May 28, 2008 by
Treat your past customers carefully
Image via WikipediaAdobe Dreamweaver is a tool used to design and develop web pages. I've used Dreamweaver for several versions, starting back in Version 4, when it was owned by Macromedia. Version 10 was just released to public beta yesterday. I didn't upgrade to the previous version (V.9) because Dreamweaver didn't add all of the value I was wanting or needing, and as I've posted about before, there were some issues regarding how effective it was for me given the more complex types of … [Read more...]
posted on May 19, 2008 by
Google fills out your search forms
Occasionally I have found sites that on their home page you would have to select a company or product from a drop down box, and then enter the site from that information. Until now, Google could not access those pages without being provided direct links. Sites with these types of pages were often called the "Deep Web" or the "Invisible Web", because search engines could not access them. Google has said in the past that they believe that 80% or more of web pages are "hidden" to them because … [Read more...]