Archive for April, 2009

LinkedIn Prevents Access for Users in Syria !

April 17th, 2009 General View Comments

Reports had shown up today about LinkedIn in Syria . LinkedIn has prevented Users inside Syria from Using the website . It’s been 3 weeks and users can not log in to their accounts on LinkedIn .

This is starting to be annoying for syrian users that everyday and every month something is prevented either by their government or by Companies itself . Google & Sun Microsystems already started before to prevent their services or some of those services with Google From Users in Syria according to the new policies that order companies in US to stop exporting Technological Services to Syria.

At the near past, We were looking for alternatives instead of Microsoft and its services for example and we then started to use open source software and services . OpenOffice By Sun Microsystems was from the most popular changes in software world instead of Microsoft Office . But What would happen right now !

We Hope to wait for some change in those policies By US . Preventing Technologies has never been the solution for solving or fighting terrorism or whatever .. Who needs the technology will get it with lots of ways, so make it simpler

As Business : Let’s Make it better without IE6

April 8th, 2009 Firefox, Microsoft, Web Design View Comments

I think that most of firms and companies are all depending on Internet in their work especially those who are tech-related like Web Design Companies which I will talk a lot about .

We can not deny that There’s still LOTS of users who depend on IE6 to browse Websites as It’s the Default Browser With Windows XP which still own the big part in the market – after Vista FAIL- , and however Firefox is getting more users every month according to reports, we still suffer from Uncompitable IE6 . And unfortunately, Many Web Designers still try to make their works compitable with IE6 Thanks to conditional tags for CSS and Javascript and all those fixes for PNG which takes too much effort to make it working fine .

As an example of breaking the rules, I started to not care about IE6 anymore in my work . Each website I design I just view it in the lovely Firefox and IE7 and fixing the little issues with IE7.

In a poll we created on our new website at Pure Design Co. (Arabic) We asked the most common question if they like the new design or not . It was good to know that about 85% of visitors loved the new design, and the rest 15% didn’t like it or actually liked the old design more although most of them didn’t view it !

The only reason for choosing this was that It’s not compitable with IE6 and Thanks to WordPress & Plugins I put the lovely Yellow Message at the top of website while viewing it with IE6 to Upgrade or Switching .

As a progress we made, We found through Google Analytics that IE6 users became fewer day after day and Other Browsers are Increased .

So Why Don’t others follow such step and start giving up that Old ugly Browser and Advice their clients to upgrade or switch from . We should have a rule about that as Microsoft is not planning for a Force-Upgrade or Stopping its Support .

Let’s make the Internet Better Without IE6, Mac & Linux users : You’re Lucky