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Paul Dixon web design blog
http://www.pauldixonwebdesign.co.uk/blog/
Blog of Lancashire UK based website designer Paul Dixon. Features news and tips relating to web design, development and SEO.
Recent Posts
ECU Loading Idea
Just in case an Easy Content Unit is a little slow to load (happens every now and then), I thought this might help - an animated gif in the background that tells the visitor that the unit is loading. Once the unit has loaded it hides the animation (...
Test websites in multiple browsers from one machine
Whether you design sites on a Mac or a PC, chances are you won’t always have immediate access to all the popular browsers. As a Mac user I sometimes need to test sites in IE 6 & IE 7. For IE 7 I can reboot my iMac with Vista, but when I nee...
Web design books
You can learn all aspects of web design and development online and for free, but for really getting to grips with a subject I personally don’t think you can’t beat a book. The photo below is of my mini library built up over 3-4 years, som...
Backing up work with Time Machine
I have always been aware of the importance of backing up work but up until recently it was always one of those little jobs that I didn’t quite get round to doing often enough, my setup was a 160 GB Formac external hard drive attached to my old eMac...
Favicons - inspiration & tools
One of the last things I do when finishing off a new website is to create a favicon. Favicons (favourite icons) are the little graphics that you see in the address bars of modern browsers, they also appear next to bookmarked websites which can be hel...
SEO for Mac OS X
Mac OS X has never been the best platform for SEO software, and although Bootcamp, Parallels and VMware Fusion have provided a way to use Windows based SEO software on a Mac, I still personally prefer to work in Mac OS X where possible. Here are some...

