Tip 33 - Testing

I thought I woudl take some time to mention one area most website designers and developers struggle with and that is testing. Simply put just making sure your website works and looks the same on all browsers.

It is the norm for anyone who designs websites on a regular basis to have an array of browsers on their machine in order to check that their website works on different browsers, but you may be asking what about me I only have a single website and its too much to have all browsers on my machine.

The Solution

The solution lies in online testing, and although there are a lot of websites that offer this service both free and paid, the best one I have come accross is by the lovely people at Adobe and its called the Adobe Browser Lab this lovely service let you test you website in not only different browsers but different operating systems also.

Dont Forget

Whilst it is always a good idea to test your website in different browsers, never forget that not everyone is using teh same size or resolution of monitor, although the standard is still 1024 x 768 make sure you test on as many resolutions as possible, and remember a given resolution is not the same on a wide screen monitor as it may be on say a Mac laptop.

So in testing make sure you test both compatibility as well as viewability.

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Tip 30 - Google Real-Time Search

Google has announced that it will be introducing real-time search results, after the service was halted following not being able to reach an agreement with twitter.

The major change this time is that the results will be powered by Google's own social networking site Google+ and the Google Plus button, this means that all activity you do and all the plus's you get can influence the search engines results immediately.

So he is what you need to do.

1. If you do not already have a Google+ account go and create one.
2. Keep active, its too easy to think that just by creating your profile that your job done, you need to keep your status up to date, and make sure you interact with others, commenting, liking, plus's all help keep you in the forefront.
3. Make sure you add the Google plus button to your website.
4. If you have some news make sure to tell the world, so if you have a big event coming up update your status, even if you have just hired someone new update your status.
5. Just remember this, this old rules still apply make sure you include some relevant keywords in your updates, don't make it spammy but just make sure they are there.

Good luck with your social media adventures.

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