Software

Internet Explorer 6 was launched on August 27, 2001.

Over nine years later and despite two major updates it lives on. Internet Explorer Six was never a very well built bit of software. It's security is poor at best (some say the least secure software on the planet), it lacks support for modern web standards and increases development time. Nothing works on IE6. Well, it does - but only after hours of re-writing perfectly good, standards compliant code in just the right way to work on this lumbering dinosaur of a system.

Well, this will go on no more.

Your choice of web host has an affect on your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) campaign. This post looks at what factors matter for SEO when you choose a host, and how you can use this information to find a host that's right for you.

Why does hosting matter?

Search engines look at a number of factors when they rank websites, and these are aimed at making sure:

Not web related, but if you've found this post on Google you'll know how frustrating it is. On Mac versions of Open Office 3.0, bullet points are interpreted incorrectly from Word documents.

It's actually a problem with the way bullets are encoded with Word, compounded by the way the Symbol font set works on mac. But, there's a fix.

All you need to do is substitute the Symbol font set with OpenSymbol. To do so, follow these steps:

Google Chrome is awesome. If you spend a lot of time online, Chrome is the browser of choice. In fact, I guarantee you it will speed up your life.

Why?

Not only is it so much faster than FireFox, it has a fantastic little function built in - it checks your spelling as you type. As someone brought up, for a while at least, under fine educational program, my ability to spell hovers around mediocre at best. Normally this requires hoping for the best when speed matters, or copying into Word, spell checking and copying out again when accuracy counts.