4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve-Websites are still more flexible at this time

Sure, having a website for your business serves a practical need: to draw net-surfing users to your product or service. However, it’s also much more than slapping on a run of the mill two-column template and calling it a day. Nothing kills an online buzz like a poorly designed or drastically outdated website. Dry and boring default templates, broken assets, confusing pages and invasive widgets do nothing but harm a page’s style, which in turn reflects poorly on the company.

2012 is heralding a new wave of innovative web technologies and design, and a page that stays in step with these trends is bound to pique interest and lower your bounce rate. Even more, a well done and on-trend website remains effective well after the year is over, reeling users in with thoughtful design and building a design-conscious and taste-making reputation. Keep these tips in mind when you clean up your company’s website, and stay ahead of the curve for the new year.

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More People Browse On Mobile Than Use IE6 & IE7 Combined-Finally

The latest data on browser trends from Sitepoint show that more people browse the Web on smartphones than use Internet Explorer 6 and 7 combined. Those two old clunkers have been the bugbears of Web developers for years, requiring sites to degrade as nicely as possible to that least common denominator of browsers. But it's a new world now; 6.95% of Web activity in November 2011 was on mobile browsers, and only 6.49% was on IE 6 or 7.

As Richard MacManus pointed out this week, there are lots of interesting trends in Web browsing lately. Another big story is that Google's Chrome (our consumer product of the year) has eclipsed Mozilla Firefox as the number 2 browser for the first time. But the shift from desktop to mobile is the real trend. The days of developing for the worst desktop browser are drawing to an end, and having the best possible mobile site has become a priority...

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Build 2011: The Two Worlds of Windows 8-Interesting how they think of the traditional desktop as just another app

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Seven Significant Trends in Mobile Usage - eMarketer - Check out the June spikes

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They're bigger than Christmas and coincide with the introduction of new iPhones. There may be more Android phones, but it looks like the iPhone is driving the change.

The Influence of Mobile on Social Marketing’s Future

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This will also be good for people in rural areas that don't have access to inexpensive broadband.