Yesterday’s post about Seesmic Look brought up an interesting point: Seesmic Look is a Twitter application optimized for Windows 7 that will work on other Windows versions, but was designed to make use of Windows 7. But most people don’t have Windows 7. Which begs the question: Should you want Windows 7? You probably will want it at some point, but having a professional install it might be a good idea.
I saw an awesome demo at a holiday party last month where my friend had a PC running Windows 7 and media server hooked up to a 3rd party tuner. He also integrated a Wii and Time Warner U-Verse and let me tell you, the whole setup was mind blowing. I decided then and there it was time to upgrade from my old reliable XP SP3 to Windows 7. His only advice: “do not upgrade; install instead.”
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Last week I studied keyword traffic for local search results related to various types of Dallas web services. I noticed a significant gap between the number of people looking for marketing services and those looking specifically for web design/development services. By significant, I mean more than 600 daily search difference. So why are so many more people looking for internet marketing than web design or development? I’ll offer my best guess below.
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Whether or not you have (or realize you have) disabled visitors to your web presence, chances are that web accessibility is more important to the performance of your site than you realize.
1. Everyone has a blind visitor to their site, and his name is Google.
The exact same strategies you can implement on your site to make it accessible to blind visitors almost always helps your organic search engine positioning. Insuring that images have relevant ALT attributes, descriptive TITLE tags, and using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting rather than inline markup, all make your site far easier to use for disabled visitors, and also enhance your position with search results.
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I do not have emotional reactions to the software applications I use on a daily basis. They are necessary tools which I use to accomplish my job and produce documentation that is of benefit to my team members and to the client. I neither love nor hate them; they are merely a fact of my life.
Until Microsoft Office 2007.
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