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21 Mar

Internet Explorer development stopped

Internet Explorer Development Stopped!

2015 marked the end of Internet Explorer. This browser is increasingly abandoned for a good reason, the compatibility has become a battle of all times.

In fact, here at Internet Cloud Canada, Internet Explorer is the origin of the phrase, “If it works in Internet Explorer, it works with all other browsers …”

To say that it has become extremely difficult to develop interesting modules and make them compatible with this browser. We will at least continue to support it until June 2016 so that our websites continue to be adjusted to Safari, Android, Chrome, Firefox (& Internet Explorer).

In the latest version of our own website (with the one you are reading this post now), we had to abandon many features simply due to incompatibilities or almost insurmountable difficulties in Internet Explorer.

The integration of a Parallax platform not failed in the usual basis but a new idea that worked in all other browsers. So we pushed back the release of this new feature for next year.

Interactive modules also known difficulties and were put aside in order to see what Microsoft will provide us with Windows 10. This release planned for the summer and already announced in the emails received by our developers do not gives us hope at all. For many of us, Microsoft will change some ingredients but the sauce will have almost the same taste, so the same limitations.

Optimized for Chrome

We believed more than 2 years ago, that Chrome browser would be the browser of the next decade. If you have not followed the crowd yet, you will see clear differences in rendered graphics, speed and transparency of the code.

Addons modules

Have you see the additional modules of Google Chrome? It is available here: Chrome Web Store. You will be amazed by the beautiful extensions, and a lot of them are completely free.

Speed, security, high-level features, Google Chrome will surely enjoy you in your next browser transition, if not done yet!

19 Mar

Free Web SEO TOOL

Internet Cloud Canada offers a free tool to check the quality of the SEO of your website. This tool is available online on our website : FREE WEBSITE SEO CHECKER (Click).

Recently we published a post on web ranking in which we mentioned that there are over 100 different factors influencing a website in search engines.

Our free web SEO tool has the advantage of giving you almost 20 essential criteria to begin a good job of SEO. Needless to say, better than these criteria are met, the better your score and the better is the overall ranking.

Some criteria, however, remain linked to time. Time is always an important aspect of SEO. The longer your website has a domain name that was registered long ago, the more advantage you have. Register your domain name for several years in advance and you will also get some benefit.

Other tips to avoid being penalized:

– Do not post too many links at once

– Do not link back all your links to your main page only

– Add rich content (photos, videos, texts)

– Do not copy (even partially) the text or code from another website

We are proud to put this tool at your disposal. We are constantly looking to increase the level of service to our customers. We believe that this tool will be favorable!

18 Mar

Image compression for your website!

BEFORE

74 KB

AFTER

20 KB

Do you see a difference? If there is one, it is not noticeable except for the server that will process the request to show the image on the screen.

There are small things that make all the difference when creating a website. Images are an important part of any design and it should not be forgotten that more the server must process large files over the network, longer it will take. Let’s add a bad internet connection for a moment or a basic mobile service provider , and you have lost your professionalism!

It is proved that if the visitor waits too long, he will leave your website to another. You lose a potential customer, all its possible future references and sales. Amazon studies show that for every second of waiting, they lose up to 40% of sales. So the speed of a website is essential for the customer but also for your reputation, SEO etc.

Image compression

No need to be an expert to compress all images of its website and no need either to buy expensive software like Photoshop. In fact, we will share with you how to compress your photos to make your website up to 30% faster.

There is a superb freeware (free software). which is called PNGOO. This software is available in the client area of our website as a free download! (Simply register…, this is alsofree!). The software is available on the web too, you must search for it in Google. The advantage to download the files from us, it is the absence of viruses or malicious software in the package.

Now… This software allows you to easily set a folder containing all the compressed photos. Simple and effective, you select the photo files to be compressed and they are reduced up to 70% without loss of sharpness or rendering.

Obviously, make sure that initially your photo files are not 4000 pixels x 6000 pixels. This kind of resolution offered by digital cameras is not suitable to a Web Site.

We suggest for normal pictures a resolution of 600 x 600 for products in an online store, 800 x 600 for normal photos into pages, 1200 x 1980 for banners. Rarely you will need images of more than 2000 pixels on your site, unless you are a professional photographer or use a particular concept.

Every tenth of a second that you can save to your visitor by performing image compression or any adjustment worthwhile. We win sprints by less than that!

So when you create your website or you modify it, you must compress all of your photos before uploading them. Your customers will appreciate!

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