Google new webfonts!

Google has made my day,.. Again!
This time with many, many, many new web fonts!
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The pros and cons about browsers and their compatibility.

Now, (almost) every frontender hates IE. But, how are the other browsers doing, and WHY don’t i like IE at all?

findmebyip.com made an overview of the most common browsers and their features.
http://www.findmebyip.com/litmus/

Shocking! Most populair web browsers.

Pingdom.com posted a item on their blog about most common web browsers.

I’m actualy shocked to say that IE8 is the most-used browser. And that IE6 is still used by 3.77%!

Now, in that almost 3.8% of IE6 users there will be some people like me testing sites on their compatibility, but i think IE6 should be banned from this planet.

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Google keywords

Would you like to know how many times people search for specifik keywords using google?

Check it out with this tool: https://adwords.google.nl/o/Targeting/Explorer?__u=1000000000&__c=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS

With this tool you can give 1 or multiple keywords, fill in the image-code and list the keyword and it’s relatives search volume!

This is your live!

“This is your live!” poster (meer…)

No meta-tags needed for SEO google

Setting the meta-tags like Discription and Keywords is actualy worse then just leaving them unset.

Google has it’s own algorithms and techniques to scrape your website, wich overal create a better result then defining the meta-tags yourself.

Here is a podcast from Matt Cuts who works at google talking about wordpress and SEO.

http://wp-community.org/2010/07/20/google-matt-cutts-wordpress/

Simple CSS rounded corners + shadow cross-browser

At first i made rounded corners with images, it did work fine, but is slows down the page-loading-speed and isn’t very quick to setup.

Here is some of the base ‘code’ i use when setting rounded corners or setting shadows.
For the horrible IE 8(and lower) browser, we have an javascript fix for css3:

behavior: url('ie-css3.htc');

Remember: IE looks for the file from the root directory, so if u use this on:
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Google Chrome dev tools

Have you ever used the Chrome development tools, or are you using it daily?
These are some (new)functions that you may have overlooked. Watch this video and see the great power of the Chrome dev tools! (meer…)