As a web marketing company, World Wide Creative focuses a lot on the actual design and usability of the websites we’re marketing. One of our biggest headaches is cross-browser compatibility – arrgh. This means making the dammmm thing work in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as well as Firefox (our browser of choice – download it here) and all the rest.
The other thing, we design all our sites now in tableless CSS, which as any designers will know, is pretty hard to do. The reason for this is for better stickiness, amongst others.
A great help to us over the past while has been Smashing Magazine, an online resource for designers in the web trade. Check it out here.
They’ve just posted this chart, which indicates the importance and prevalence of the various browsers that the world’s population is using.
Interesting stuff…
- Fred
Fred is the CEO of digital marketing agency World Wide Creative. Fred co-founded The Heavy Chef Project, as well as Ideate, a forum for African entrepreneurs. Fred focuses on online brand building, marketing strategy and loud Hawaiian shirts. Fred is famous for his sartorial excellence, long diatribes about music and fanatical attention to detail when making pizza. Follow Fred on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Fred_Roed
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It gets even more interesting when comparing browsers – ’static’ websites, browsers – blogs.
‘Static’ websites: firefox between 10 – 18%
Blogs: firefox 20 – 30%
(Except blogs – like our own FAQ & News blog on wooden flooring – that are a real add-on to a static website, then it’s down to 10 – 18% again)
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)