An interesting article on the optimal time to post to Twitter for maximum impact. It seems times between 9am-3pm are best, with 1-2pm being top. This article is based on PST however… and the behaviour patterns of people in the west coast of the USA could potentially be different to a UK reader base. Still very interesting statistics!
I’ve just finished working on a game for NESTA with Pixillion Digital and Tijuana Design. The game was a different challenge to the virals I’ve been working on recently, with it having multiple levels and characters, as well as a highscore table powered by a MySQL database. There was also a lot of drawing to be done, many many animals.
Check it out at http://www.pixillion.com/adaptation/adaptation.html
Without doubt, one of the most annoying parts of web design is making sure your website looks as nice in one browser as it does in another, and as all developers know, this takes time. It specifically takes a lot more time when having to test in IE6, which has no real accessible way to do so without using other or virtual machines.
So in comes the rather overwhelmingly named “Expression Web SuperPreview” from Microsoft. A stand-alone visual debugging tool, which lets you flick between and even onion-skin different versions of Internet Explorer. With the full release there’s promise of inclusion of other browsers you’ve installed locally such as Firefox and Safari, creating potentially a great cross browser testing tool.
You can download the preview version by clicking here.
The full version will be bundled with Expression Web 3 later on in the year, here’s hoping it delivers and helps ease that cross browser headache…
I’m showing massive, unreserved support for .net magazine’s bring down IE6 campaign.
IE6 is an out of date browser, which is hindering the web’s development with its lack of advanced CSS support. Huge names such as Google, Apple and Facebook now consider the browser unsupported, therefore users still on the old browser aren’t getting the full web experience.
Checking my logs, I see that only 6% of my visitors still use IE6, but if you’re one of them, for a faster and more secure web experience, download Firefox. If you’re still an IE fan, then follow this link to upgrade from IE6 to the latest version.
