Misty Beier

Fort Lauderdale Web Designer

XHTML, CSS, SEO & Web Standards

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Monday, March 23, 2009

The Compatibility View Button in IE8

Posted by Misty Beier at 10:19 PM 5 Comments

I'm a big Firefox fan. So when Internet Explorer finally came out with IE8, I was a bit curious. A bunch of questions came to mind as a web designer: is this going to make my CSS life easier and will people finally give up on IE6 and upgrade?!

I checked out the home page for IE8 and read about the Compatibility View button. I thought to myself, "Now, that's nice. Gives me a reason to download it I guess."

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Website Browser Compatibility with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3

Posted by Misty Beier at 10:00 PM 3 Comments

I know it's been a month since I posted anything new and I haven't been motivated to write part 2 of What's the Difference Between SEO and SEM.

I've been thinking about a way to have Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on my computer to check compatibility of websites. I decided to look it up and found lifehacker.com had a pretty good article explaining it. I just wanted to be able to view both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 without any additional downloads and create separate profiles to keep my updated addons. Here's my process:

Monday, February 02, 2009

What’s the Difference Between SEO & SEM: Part 1 of 2

Posted by Misty Beier at 09:30 AM 23 Comments

First off, let’s define SEO and SEM:

SEO:
Search Engine Optimization
SEM:
Search Engine Marketing

I’ll try to keep this short, but it won’t be easy since this is a great interest of mine.

So what’s the difference between SEO and SEM? Let’s start with SEO.

SEO is used mostly by web designers and front-end web developers to optimize a website for search engines. In other words, SEO helps people find your website. This is done by: