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Our latest web design guide will help you to optimise your own site and provide a great check list if you want to employ an SEO company.

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Firefox continued to make ground on Internet Explorer in 2007, even threatening to overtake Microsoft’s dominance in several European countries.

Figures released by Xiti Monitor reveal that Firefox is close to toppling Internet Explorer in countries such as Finland, where it enjoys a 45% market share, as well as Poland, Slovenia and Hungary where it also enjoys market share between 40% and 42%. In Western Europe, Germany leads the way with a 34% share.

While Firefox continues to grow, the figures reveal that Internet Explorer is still by far the dominant browser holding a 66.1% share of the worldwide market, as opposed to Firefox’s 28%, which still represents a new high for the open-source browser.

Of the remaining browsers, Opera fares best with a 3.3% share, while Safari trails with only 2%.

Source: PC Pro

First-person-shooter Call of Duty 4 was last year’s biggest selling game, according to sales figures.

It has sold more than seven million units since its launch in November, says its publisher Activision. The claim is based on sales figures from research firms The NPD Group, Chart Track and The GFK Group.

The game was just one of a raft of high profile releases in 2007 including the third instalment of the Halo series for the Xbox 360.

Source: BBC Technology News

Reports are suggesting that Microsoft is considering pushing forward the release date of Windows 7, its successor to Vista.

APC Magazine claims to have seen Microsoft’s roadmap for the operating system, and reports that the software giant is gunning for a 2009 release to manufacturing, a year earlier than initially planned.

The roadmap apparently contains three distinct milestone builds for Windows 7, with the first build, M1, apparently already shipped to partners for code validation.

M1 is reported to be English language only, but is shipping in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. M2 is slated to ship in April or May, while M3 is expected some time in the third quarter of 2008.

Source: PC Pro

We are pleased to announce our latest web design article ‘Why QBS PC Help use ems page styling’.

Ems and Percentages are considered the “best” units for sizing fonts and layouts in CSS. They are resizeable in all modern Web browsers that support resizing and they are specified relative to the user’s font size preferences, and can therefore adapt to the viewer’s screen.

To read more about ems and percentages and grab a free web template that shows how ems and percentage styling works click here.