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Hi,I wonder if anyone has tried out the beta version of IE9?  It only runs on Windows7 or Vista, so stone-agers like me (XP, linux), can't run it.  Reading the blurb, though, it looks like a major departure from previous IE versions:  support for W3C standards (hurrah!) and (it looks like) a lot of HTML5 features as well.  If this is really Microsoft seeing the light and realising that web standards is the way forward, it's going to make web design SOOOO much easier!   Natch, lack of backward…See More

Hi Bloggers,I've been requested (=ordered!) to set up a blog for a couple of friends who are planning a motorbike trip to Beijing.  What they need is something that is going to be dead simple to upload to, and which can handle tasks like auto resizing photos. They are not particularly technically savvy and they'll probably be uploading under fairly primitive conditions.   I guess there's plenty of blogging software out there, so, anyone got any recommendations?  Stuff I know about includes php,…See More

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Hi,I don't do SEO.  Most of the sites I'm involved with are the sort of amateur/geek affairs where if you posted the site on the bottom of a rock on the far side of Pluto the users would still find it.  Also, from my glancing acquaintance, SEO all looks like a bit of a black art.  A few weeks ago, I got cornered/cheerfully volunteered (my version/their version) to update an old website for the local Friends of the park group.  The website was an old campaign site that hadn't had any content…See More

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