While I've downloaded a lot of great apps since I've started using an iPhone (which was just this year), I'm also a big user of the Safari Browser on the iPhone. As a web designer, it's interesting to use a mobile device that presents websites as mini-versions of the real thing. (well, almost the real thing, there a few differences).
Dan's Web World - Blog
Sharing what I know on web design, search engines, technology, hosting, and more.
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Nov
07Websites Acting Like Apps
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Oct
14Fonts in Web Design
Read More »Choosing what font to use in web design is somewhat like going to the same restaurant every day, and there's 3-4 items to choose from. Helvetica's good, it's popular item... but you had it so many times. Arial isn't any better, tastes almost the same. Trebuchet seemed really spicy for a while, but now... you get the idea. If you want to use fonts and text on your web pages (and for usability, SEO, and accessibliity, you really should), you're stuck with a few choices. And that really hasn't changed for the past 10 years. There are a few options, however, that may help.
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Jun
14Google Apps
Read More »Most web hosting packages, including my own, offer email accounts, so you can have email addresses such as "name@yourdomain.com". While it's often assumed that website hosting and email accounts are one and the same, they're really two different things that hosting companies combine for the sake of convienence.
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May
13Death of Meta Tags?
Read More »For those who've never heard the term "Meta Tags", the brief explanation is this- back when websites started, meta tags were little bits of text embedded in a web page to help with search engine results. If you put keywords hidden in your code, like "free money, prizes, pizza, sex, etc", that would help your site rise to the top of the search engine heap. Meta tags also did other things, but generally people are talking about page descriptions and keywords.
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Apr
22Twitter is Everywhere
Read More »After recently attending MinneWebCon and last night, attending the (1st ever) IgniteMpls conference, I can see the hype over Twitter isn't all talk. While it's easily debatable how useful most of the Twittering and celebrity stalking going on with Twitter, there's one positive use of Twitter that I'm really liking.
