http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog Redefining web development & design Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just on the heels of the IE8 beta 2 release and the new Firefox 3, a new player has entered the browser field, none other than - Google. Yesterday Google announced the release of its very own open source browser in beta, called Chrome. According to research firm Net Applications, IE holds ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/the-google-browser Last night the Microsoft team hosted a small but impactful meeting with some of Toronto, Canada's web industry influencers to showcase the latest Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 features before its official release today at 3pm.  Pete LePage, Product Manager / Developer Division at Mircosoft, took us on a ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/ie-8-beta-2-release Entrepreneurs or small business owners in the process of building their company website often instruct a web designer to project a bigger business image. But are they setting themselves up for conflict? At 9th sphere, we design and develop a lot of websites. Most of our clients want a clean, professional ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/setting-expectations-with-design One of the major SEO events in Canada took place last month in Toronto, the SES Toronto conference. The conference was a great opportunity to see and learn about the strategies and techniques being used in the SEO industry nowadays and to get some fresh ideas. Although the quality of the ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/2008-ses-toronto-conference For various reasons, sooner or later companies get an itch to re-design their web sites. The process most commonly begins with requests for quotes from a slew of web design companies found on the first pages of a Google search. If this is the approach you and your ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/the-path-to-website-re-design-success Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the organization responsible for dot-ca domain name operations, is changing its policy on disclosure of personal information of domain name registrants, to better comply with PIPEDA. Currently anyone can locate the owner of a domain name through a WHOIS search, which displays the person, organization or ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/dot-ca-to-protect-personal-information Statistics Canada recently published Canadian Internet statistics with some double digit increases in 2007. Total internet sales hit an estimated C$62.7 billion in 2007. That's a 26% increase from 2006, mostly from the B2C market. eMarketers' latest article, Canada E-Commerce Growing Quickly, reports that ecommerce is still only 2% of total operating ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/updated-canadian-ecommerce-statistics Have you been hearing about Web 2.0 social bookmarking and wondering what it's all about? This nice video tutorial by commoncraft called, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English", explains the full concept. So go ahead, impress your friend with your swank social skills. Some of the most popular social bookmarking tools ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/dont-be-shytry-social-bookmarking Last Friday, in an article entitled "Dot-Quebec?", The Globe & Mail reported that a Québécois party member started a petition to convince ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to create a separate domain name extension for Quebec. Province and city level extensions were once commonly used to identify ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/should-quebec-have-its-own-domain-extension On April 15, 2008, Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registration hit the one million mark, placing this Canadian-specific extension as the seventeenth largest Internet domain name registry worldwide. So where does that place Canada in comparison to other country-level domain extensions? Here's where dot-ca ranked in the fifteenth spot back in ... http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/canadas-one-million-domain-names