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Fixing for Internet Explorer 6 Step-by-Step

May 18th, 2009 at 3:10 pm | Posted by Jon

As a developer, the most frustrating part of my job, and I’m sure I’m not alone here, is fixing a new website for Internet Explorer 6.

IE6 is old; that’s about the size of it. In its hey-day between 2002 and 2003, it peaked at a market share of around 80% of all browsers on the Web. Since then, its usage has steadily declined in light of the gains by modern browsers like Firefox and Opera as well as those users upgrading to the newly released Internet Explorer 7 in 2006.

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A Closer Look: Zenith People

September 9th, 2008 at 1:55pm | Posted by Jon

The Zenith People website was quite a large and complex project. There doesn't seem to be much happening on the surface, but when you look at it a little closer, most of the work goes on behind the scenes. However, with two different vacancy searches, a vacancy application function with CV upload, a Postcode distance search and an email contact form, the public-facing part of the site is far from feature-free.

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Parkdean Holidays Regional Map

September 9th, 2008 at 2:22pm | Posted by Jon

Now that Parkdean Holidays have launched their new website from the static templates we provided them with, I thought I would demonstrate one of the more advanced features we produced for them.

This is a regional map showing the locations of Parkdean Holiday parks. Using the fantastic jQuery library...

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