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I spotted a new site on the wire today, Cross Browser Testing; it is a site that helps you test your website across a variety of different operating systems and browsers.

Whilst there are services like Browsershots that let you take screenshots of your site in different browsers, Cross Browser Testing provides you with full interactivity, allowing you to test things like AJAX and JavaScript that you can’t do with a screenshot.

Cross Browser Testing provides a very wide variety of servers to choose from, from Windows 98(!) to Vista and Linux; and many browsers including Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.

I played around with the free 5 minute trial session available, and it seems like a really good option for those who need to test their sites in many different environments.

Here’s a screenshot of the vBS blog in Opera:

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John Gruber points out something that I must have seen a zillion times and never noticed: The deep integration of Google Search with the Mac OS X. He adds that this contextual menu command and ?the search is performed in Safari, regardless whether it?s your preferred browser or not.? Who knew? I wonder how big that ?referral revenue? check for Apple is every month?

To put it unscientifically: Apple gets a big fat whopper of a check. Back in June 2007, Gruber had estimated that Apple was bringing in $25 million a year mostly from the search box in the Safari browser. Nine months later, Apple has been on a tear, selling more computers than ever before and has seen an uptick in its market share. In addition, many millions of iPhones have been sold. Mobile Safari Browser generates ton of search traffic, not to mention boosting the map usage. This tight integration between Apple and Google must result in a big exchange of dollars.

What is your best guess? Scientific answers are preferred but I will settle for unscientific best guesse.

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Which explains why i haven’t been able to think about anything to write about and the lack of good articles from myself.

I think i know when i happened. It was the night of April the 6th, I was sitting there in my chair getting ready to finish an article about why black hat SEO is bad, and then BOOM out of no where my brain and thoughts and everything were gone.

I’m slowly working on regaining my brain cells which should provide further articles for actual use on the front page. If this ever sees the light of day the site would probably lose all creditability as being full of good vBulletin people!

I did however buy a new video game which is why i think it’s totally blocked me from doing much of anything other then playing it. Lost Odyssey its pretty awesome, i play it a lot on my 360 yea.

Ok Mr aliens please give me back my brains!

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We just got done adding 3 new wordpress styles to offer for free to everyone and anyone.

We now have eight free wordpress styles here at vBulletinSetup.

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Hello, I thought I would write today about keeping your website happy. A website is just like a person. And if it is a happy website, then everyone who visits will be happy. I know this doesnt make much since but allow me to explain. There are things that make a website happy, at least in my eyes:

1. No Downtime
2. Lots of new content
3. Making money
4. Friendly people who understand this is someone’s baby

No Downtime

The most important thing is your hosting. Because if your site is not up, then its not happy. You spend all these hours putting together this nice new site you can be proud of, but then you surf to it and its down. This can be a very frustrating thing. So, what do you do? You contact your host, but they don’t seem to care as much as you do. Then, you have to take all this time trying to find a new host. It’s just a big headache.

So how do you know whats a good host?

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Many people beleive that Google is the only thing that matters on the internet. They design their sites with only Google in mind and obtaining that top position for a highly searched keyword/phrase. While these nut jobs are running around spending countless hours doing this, they’re over looking a very important part of any community or website for that matter. User Experience.

Google is NOT the internet, it isn’t your websites success or failure it isn’t even a measure of your success or failure. Google is a tool, one that you should use, but use in moderation and wisely. Do not make your site for Google, make your site for Users! And I’ll even tell you why!

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Building relevant backlinks is key to any SEO campaign and theres tons of ways to get them, You could “link bait” to get backlinks which is sorta like fishing for links, or you can browse a couple of these sites and contact other webmasters who are constantly looking for traders.

I’ll go over what to look for, what to avoid, and how to do it without making it look like a reciprocial exchange.

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