Mark Newton
Obviously if you are developing for Windows then Visual Studio has always been your development tool of choice, but what about web development? I don’t intend to attempt a full review of Visual Studio here, that is for other parts of the magazine. What I would like to do is highlight the areas that will […]
So you have built your killer website and set up some way of examining of user activity on it either by analysis of the logs or by using Google Analytics or a similar system that requires you to put code on every page you wish to track. Ideally you will be using two or more […]
Windows Live Dev site has all the latest news Another ‘Live’ service is a complete mapping technology at http://maps.live.com which is like Google Maps, and like that, it has been around a while and similarly is constantly being upgraded with more features being added all the time. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth now has a full API to enable […]
I have just returned from the Bridge World Championships in Philadelphia. In the past at such events I was responsible for specifying and setting up the IT requirements; however, some four years ago, I resigned, mainly because of pressure of my other work. So it was with great delight that I was invited as a […]
Verdict: The ability to layout pages as one would with a DTP package makes this a great design environment, definitely a designers tool, and the limitations brought about by this approach are worth living with. This coupled with the ability for a team to work in a controlled way shows that NetObjects realize that a […]
When designing a new web site, one of the more onerous tasks is the building of the style sheets. These change your basic text web pages to something that has some sort of design applied to it so that the client or the designer’s vision is implemented. The difference between what they want and what […]
It is the design of the style sheets for a web site that singularly takes the most time. Get these right and all the content seems to just flow into your web site, get it wrong and you will be trying to patch things for months afterwards. Getting a style sheet to work correctly in […]
In my last article I briefly mentioned Hadoop which is a technology that enables web applications to run across a lot of servers and not be affected by any hardware failure. No sooner had I sent my article off to the sub editors than I received a PR email from a company offering a product […]
internet http://www.straker.co.nz verdict A mid priced content management system build on Cold Fusion, very flexible and fast, which allows considerable customising. Content Management systems are a considerable growth area for software houses, with many new programs appearing almost every week. Many of these are very expensive, placing them in the realm of the larger corporates for […]
Website Spark is aimed to help start-ups to get the Microsoft programs they need for the first three years Super Preview is a welcome, if flawed tool, and it seems that Microsoft are continuing along the theme of getting all warm and cuddly in trying to help the budding web developer with the launch of […]