Published: 29 Aug 2010 In: Website Design
One of the most time intensive factors of web site programming and design is ensuring that a web site can be properly viewed by the user. Each one of us has a preference when it comes to the type of computer we will own, the operating system that computer uses, and the browser that is used when we are using the Internet. With all of the choices available, it is a challenge for a programmer to provide a rich experience for every visitor to a website.
Much of this is due to the compatibility issues between browsers. One of the most non-compatible browsers when it comes to web standards is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft is making an concerted effort to address these issues and with each new version of IE, increased HTML and CSS compatibility is being included.
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Published: 5 Aug 2010 In: Applications
According to the Official Google blog, low user adoption of the cutting edge Wave product has caused the company to halt development on the platform.
Google Wave is a browser based web application for real time communication and collaboration that was launched last year at Google I/O. There has been much hype and anticipation for this product among web users.
But today, Google announced they will no longer develop the Wave product as a standalone product. The reason stated for this decision was the low user adoption rate.
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Published: 16 Jul 2010 In: WordPress
If you use a hosted WordPress.Com blog, short codes have been added to simplify many of the common tasks a blogger needs to deal with. Previously, we dealt with How to Add a Photo Gallery for self hosted blogs. In today’s entry, we will show you how easy it is to add a simple Contact form to your WordPress.Com blog.
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- Tags: contact form, short code, shortcode, WordPress
Published: 13 Jul 2010 In: SEO
I just read a post from Hub Spot on “Using Twitter to Ranking #1 on Google in less than 5 minutes“. At first I thought it was a hoax.
But the news was even better.
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Published: 12 Jul 2010 In: General
Every so often, we return to our roots as communications engineers and report on stories and events relating to the telecommunication sector. This is one such story.
On Saturday, Thailand’s telecommunications regulator, NTC (National Telecommunications Commission) finalized their 3G Information Memorandum. This sets in place a framework for a bidding process to award 3G licenses to carriers operating within Thailand.
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Published: 18 Jun 2010 In: WordPress
Sometime during the night while I was sleeping, WordPress released an update – WordPress 3.0. I have spent some of the morning messing around with it and the new features.
My consensus – Refreshing!
Among some of my first impressions are is a more simple looking administration area, which seems to load quicker and with less overhead on my servers.
I have also looked at the new theme that is installed with the update and I am really eager to dive into it further to understand how the new version will enhance the user experience.
More to come as we continue to put the new version through it’s paces.
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Published: 12 Jun 2010 In: Web Tools
I had the pleasure of meeting with a user experience expert yesterday, Carl Heaton from Web Courses Bangkok. Carl showed me a great tool for website owners called UserFly (affiliate link).
Userfly allows you to test the usability of your website as each visitor goes to your site. You start by adding a small JavaScript to the web pages you want to track. It’s that easy.
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Published: 9 Jun 2010 In: General
If you use Twitter on a regular basis, you will want to be aware of some changes taking place in the way the service handles links in your Tweets.
The Twitter blog details the changes that will take place over the coming few months and how they will effect all users (Twitter Blog: Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn’t Matter).
The changes are being made in order to increase security for users, and offer more relevant linking text when adding links to Tweets. Some of the changes include:
- Wrapping links using a new t.co URL
- More Intelligent shortening of links
- Better quality link scanning against malware or phishing sites
Twitter is already testing some of the features on employee accounts. They also hope to offer more details of the service to developers in order to prepare for the change.
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Published: 9 Jun 2010 In: General
According to an article published on TechCrunch (Caffeine: Google Finally Brews Its New Pot Of Web Results — 50% Fresher), Google is finally ready to roll out it’s Caffeine platform for search results.
This has been confirmed on Google’s Blog as well (Our new search index: Caffeine).
Both articles offer some minor insights into the enhancements available with the new index compared to the older index. There has been a lot of hype about the launch of Caffeine since August 2009 when articles began to surface in various blogs. Many thought that the launch would come in December 2009, but it didn’t happen. It now looks like Google is ready to let the world experience this new platform.
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Published: 24 May 2010 In: General
It was a very interesting week for us in Bangkok last week as we witnessed the worst violence the city has experienced in decades.
In all of my 16 years here, I have never witnessed anything that effected the nation as these events did. Business were forced to close their doors in the interests of the safety of their staff. The whole city seemed to come to a stand still as the military forces fought with red shirt protesters.
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