web design and marketing writing

For years the bane of web designers lives has been the number of different browsers out there - Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc…. Quite often it has meant coding different code for each browser. The cries of anguish when a design that works perfectly on one browser crashes on another have been heard around the world for too many years.
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We’ve added a little winter touch to our website - snowflakes falling through the colour splash on our home page. Here’s how to do it for yourself.
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We’ve been doing a fair bit of work recently which could be described under the Web 2.0 banner. While some of the technology is great, you need to take care that your application of it is in the right environment.
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It used to be a great way to get attention - when a visitor comes to your site, pop up a new window on top of the page that highlights some special information.

Some people had to overdo it though, plastering the screen with pop-up windows and driving the visitor crazy. Pop ups have become associated with dodgy sites and spamming. So firewall and virus checking software started to provide blocking software which stopped the popups. These days Google and Yahoo toolbars come with pop up blockers and Internet Explorer 7 comes with a blocker set up by default to block popups.

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Some time ago Google started directing search requests to their country servers based on the geographic location of the request. For example, if you were in the UK and made a Google search, the results would be served up by the google.co.uk service.
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