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Brighton Digital Festival has evolved and grown each year, reflecting the industry it represents. Now in its third year, the Festival will be split into 3 separate themes embodying all elements of this vibrant industry.
We are really excited as it looks like a lot of thought has gone into the line up this year. Browsing the events calendar and you will see friends and colleagues running some excellent events.
1. Professional-looking design will make the site more inviting and encourage the sense that you are a business they want to deal with.
2. Easy navigation will prevent visitors leaving the site due to not being able to locate the information they require. Ensure your calls-to-action are clearly seen.
3. Fast loading makes navigation even easier and avoids frustration.
4. Consistency of design and usability to ensure visitors feel comfortable as they go deeper into your site.
5. Effective searching mechanisms. If your site has one, makes sure it works quickly and efficiently.
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Microsoft will be releasing or rather forcing us to upgrade IE7 soon
(as a windows update , so we all have to get used to using this browser.
Or at least testing our designs on it. As you can see around 60% of people use IE.
| 2006 | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | Ffox | Moz | N7/8 | O8/9 |
| August | 1.9% | 55.1% | 4.1% | 26.4% | 2.1% | 0.4% | 1.5% |
Data from W3C schools.
Only thing is for testing, its always nice to have a few versions installed on a machine to test on. This cannot be done unless you have stand alone versions of the same browser, otherwise you will just have the latest version.
So found a good link to get IE7 working on PC’s and Macs:
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
Also we have to be aware that although IE7 is better than previous versions, it it still not bug free.
So its recommended as discusse back in June at @media06, its best to have the bugs to display your web sites correctly in a separate file to the main/global CSS.
For example:
@import url(”main.css”);
@import url(”ie.css”);
So you know your site works well in other browsers, and you have this bug.css file to cater for IE7. And hopefully when the bugs in IE get fixed you can easily take them out from the CSS file.
Have you tested your web site in IE7, does it display correctly?
Have you ever wondered what your site looks like in othe browsers?
Well, here’s your chance:
Just enter your URL (web address) into any of these web sites, and you get a image of how your web site looks in safari (macintosh) browsers, and also new and recent versions of windows browsers;