Archive for April 2010

Apr
26

PowerCMS 2 Giveaway!

by Jon Crim

As many of you well know PowerCMS 2 launched on April 12th 2010 and with new features such as the Installation Wizard, Live Edit, and redesigned administrative back-end it has been a BIG hit. In fact, we’re so excited that we’re giving away a free copy of PowerCMS to one lucky WebAssist Facebook Fan.

To participate head on over to the WebAssist Facebook Fan Page – ends April 30th 2010!

In my last post, Search Engines and SEO, I discussed how search engines crawl, index and serve results to end users as it relates to SEO. With this information you now know that search engines must find and crawl your website in order for your site to rank for specific keywords.

However, how do you ensure search engines find your website if it’s new? As you can imagine it’s awful hard to rank high within search engine results pages if the search engines never find you to begin with. The good news is that there are a number of things you can do to make sure that search engines find your website. Let’s take a look at three of the most common ways to ensure your site is discovered.
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Apr
08

Over the years IE 6 has played a major role in the world of web development. Regardless of you personal stance, be that outright hatred or tolerance, you’ve likely put up with IE 6 even if you were kicking and screaming along the way.

Towards the end of 2003 IE 6 held a little over 70% of the web browser market and has been plaguing web developers ever since. It’s been a long road, but all signs point to the near extinction of this once dominant browser.

At the start of 2009 IE 6 was being used by over 18.5% of the web world and in just one year lost another 8.3% of its market share weighing in with only 10.2% of the market to start 2010 - now just 2 months later 8.9%.
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