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March 2010 Digest

Apr
1
2010

The following blog post is an amalgamation of March 2010 highlights in SEO, web design and web coding. If you missed any of these articles, you might find them useful.

SEO Highlights

Bing Webmaster Center Blog: Illuminating the path to SEO for Silverlight
Bing have been posting some great content on their Webmaster Center Blog, and early in March they released an article discussing optimisation of Silverlight video content for search. The article is well-worth a read for SEO’s and Webmasters (and a lot of the principles apply to Flash as well).
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Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients

Mar
2
2010

Using progressive enhancement techniques in web design is good practice—where new browsers can take advantage of improvements in HTML standards and new CSS capabilities.

Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks, has written an excellent article discussing a CSS3 progressive enhancement technique for rendering gradients, whilst retaining a fallback image-based option for non-compliant browsers. Read the post here.

I’m all in favour of improving page load times as you’ll see from other posts on Brightscape here, here and here. Therefore, I found this article of interest and felt it worthy of sharing with the community.


CSS Usage Plugin for Firebug

Feb
3
2010

Firefox addon An extremely useful tool for finding redundant CSS selectors in your site builds.

The plugin integrates with the Firebug addon in Firefox making this a useful addition to Firebug’s impressive list of features.

Download the CSS Usage plugin.

As a website grows so does its stylesheet. The problem is, the opposite is not true.