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Multi-language web sites for wider marketing reach

If your website is available in foreign languages, it gives your company a wider marketing reach and can generate more revenues for you.

“Sure”, you say, “but we only operate in the local marketplace”.

Well, that might true but the fact is that multiculturalism has come to the UK and Scotland in particular, and you might be missing out on business if you ignore it.
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25th April 2007 | Posted in marketing articles, web design

Float thinks it’s the containing block

The day will no doubt come when IE6 is obsolete and we can all forget about it. But until then, designers have to put up with its charming idiosyncracies. Here’s one that drove us crazy for an hour. If we had thought for a minute, we would have remembered the Holly Hack, but you know how it is…. let’s just try one more thing…
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15th April 2007 | Posted in web design

Border vanishes in IE6

We came across another of those infuriating IE6 bugs the other day. It’s a bit obscure but I’m sure others have hit it.

It occurs when you have a large containing block with a border around it. For example:
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2nd March 2007 | Posted in web design

How to fix the broken capital W in Internet Explorer

Here’s one that only a web designer anorak could come up with.

If you’re interested in web design professionally, you’ll know that the different browsers operate slightly differently. It’s much better than it used to be, as the standards defined by organisations like WC3 have been largely adopted.
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10th November 2006 | Posted in web design

Web design with multiple sites and IIS

As a web design company, we often have multiple web site developments in various states of development. The easiest way to manage this is to have a web server on our individual PCs and have multiple web sites running on the web server.
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5th October 2006 | Posted in web design
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