I get this question quite a bit for people that need to test their web sites on IE6 mostly that already have IE7 installed. I have found a great piece of software from TredoSoft that does just this. It basically installed IE 3.0, IE 4.01, IE 5.01, IE 5.5 and IE 6 on your computer to let you test your web page on them. This is all assuming you have IE7 already installed. If for whatever reason you don’t want to replace your IE6 with IE7 they also have a stand alone IE7 that you can install to test your web pages on.

I mostly use this software for testing web pages on IE6 standalone. This is a very useful software for testing your web page. For those of you wishing to test Safari you may know that it has been released for PC, but it is still a little buggy.

Unfortunately I don’t have a good way right now to test other browsers on your Mac but I will keep an eye out for something that does. Hopefully the company will create IE6 stand alone for the Mac soon. Currently it does work for Windows XP and Vista though.

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This week it is a hack that I am providing for everyone to enjoy, it allows you to easily add a quick style within your existing style sheet to target internet explorer. This can help so you don’t have to check your ie CSS file if is just a simple margin adjustment. Which as we all know internet explorer has some issues with, especially internet explorer 6. The underscore hack is pretty basic but I will go over the various uses for it and touch on what browsers it affects and which browsers ignore it. (more…)

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Thats right, Safari is now available for Windows for all of you Safari lovers out there. I don’t know that I would neccesarily include myself in the Safari loving group but I definetely see it as a tool that will come in handy when ensuring that a web site is working in all browsers.

Now only if Konquerer would come out for windows, things would get interesting. At any rate the software runs great for me on Windows XP SP2 (Tested on 3 XP SP2 machines) I also tested it on a Media Center PC and it worked fine and tested it on a Windows Vista Ultimate computer and Safari worked fine also.

Apparently though I may be a rare case because there have been reports of it crashing constantly or having other weird issues. Roger from 456 Berea Street said that the software never even started up on his XP machine but worked great on OSX.

At any rate, Safari is now working on Windows so we have a new option in the browser war. Personally I will probably stay with Firefox, mostly for the extensions. I could deal with losing the memory issues with Firefox though

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We all remember when popup advertisements were all the rage, advertisers were reaping the benefits of having their advertisement flush in the consumers eyes whenever they visited web sites. Just boom and your product is in their face and they have to look at it. Brilliant. We of course learned our mistakes, well most of us learned our mistakes, and went to more subtle advertisements based on the users interests that gave the consumer the ability to choose to click on an advertisement if they were interested. Now, we have snap preview that takes that choice and adds a little suggestive manipulation to make sure the user sees the advertisement. (more…)

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Ok, so as many of as know there is a lot more then meets the eye when it comes to web page designing. You have to ensure that your web page is compatible in most of the browsers and that it works the way you want it to work on the end user’s side. So just making the web site look pretty is at best of the battle. It may be even less with ugly web sites like MySpace and YouTube being so popular, look at Google… simple, functional and to the point. These are all the most visited web sites on the Internet and they are close to the ugliest, but this isn’t about that. This is about XHTML validating your web sites and attempting to use an advertiser that complies.

I finally after a day and a half of working through all of the included pages in this web was able to get the web site W3C validated for XHTML 1.1. Which is an awesome thing to have, especially when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). The search engines will favor the web sites that meet W3C standards because if they do, they are obviously web sites with good content because they adhere to the standards. (more…)

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