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Thanks, SmartLife for naming ContentRobot’s Dana Rockel among your Top 50+ Blog Service Providers. He landed at #43!

We appreciate the mention and acknowledgment of his fine work.

ContentRobot once had a favorite host that we recommended to all our clients: Pair Networks. They were reasonable … wonderfully responsive … easy to use … Then …

A client’s blog was partially down, meaning you could see the site content but not the theme or the CSS. What happened? Where was the warning email that we were promised last time? Did they turn off services? Who could help us during this crises? ACK!

Then after 3 separate phone calls to find out what was going on, came this stellar response from tech support:

Sorry we don’t support WordPress and we can’t help [...]

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Dana twittered this morning: I have a dream that someday IE6 will just vanish.

This led to an interesting discussion, as ContentRobot contemplated what life would be like without having to deal with the most horrible browser on the planet!

This aging Microsoft mess (Internet Explorer 6 was launched six years ago!) causes much woe during development time. What do we deal with?

• IE6 is the absolute worst browser when it comes to supporting web standards
• We have to develop code just for this browser alone, so it will display a site correctly

This all seems like such as waste of time and effort (not to [...]

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Our regular readers might notice that a new look is starting to come to ContentRobot.com.

What’s new?

• the shell is getting poured in
• our tagline was tweaked
• the blue gets darker and more techy
• the navigation buttons are stylized
• a textured background anchors the design

While there is much to be done (the internal pages still look wonky!) we are pleased with this iteration. What do you think?

ContentRobot is pleased to offer our first ebook, which is an excerpt of our collaboration on  The Secret Power of Blogging.

You’ll see:

• Karen’s foreword of the book
• ContentRobot case studies featuring our clients (BazaarVoice, Beneath the Cover / Push the Key, Bite of the Best, GrokDotCom, New School Selling, Shop.org, and Team Timex)
• Outsourcing Versus In-House Blog Development (including design, technical, and marketing issues)
• Benefits of working with a blog development company
• Finding a reputable blogging vendor

We hope you enjoy the ebook - your’s free for the taking! Click here for your copy.