Web Development Resources
Students in ITL 275: Web Design and Development are developing a new site for the ITL department here at W&J. Part of the process includes determining the audience and identifying who you are trying to serve. This seems like a good point to remind everyone of NetMarketShare which hosts monthly breakdowns of web content access by device and platform:
Some interesting notes - IE still makes up over 50% of desktop browsers. This isn’t as horrible as it once was, since both IE8 and IE9 are acceptable browsers; but 13% of users are still employing IE6 and IE7, meaning that there’s a whole lot of content that they can’t get to unless the developers are conscientious enough to query for the browser version and push out a different stylesheet.
Another resource for students is the Web Style Guide (2nd). Ignore the third edition - it goes too far afield for the work we’ll do this term.
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People are still using IE because organizations in the government, mine will go nameless, are forcing us to use IE. I’ve asked for Chrome or Firefox, but our IT guy tried nicely to say no and that I don’t need it. But I argued that when designing the background for our Twitter page I need to see which to use (because it looks different in all 3 browsers). He still said no. I think I may be driving them crazy lol.