Mark Newton
Whilst heavy weight designer tools like Dreamweaver are great for designing and maintain web sites they often offer far too a complex solution to end users who just want to update the content of their web site. With this in mind and a particular client request I set out to investigate some of the many […]
The other day we had to install Macromedia’s content management product, Contribute 4 one of the installations of Dreamweaver here, as the web site client was using this version. However it seems that Dreamweaver will only recognise Contribute 2 and 3, so an email to the support desk was in order. Within a couple of […]
The other evening I was having a conversation with my good friend Steve who works at BT, in our local watering hole and he asked; ‘what do you now define as web development?’ This comment was sparked by the comment that Drupal is now on the PcPro ‘A list’ alongside Dreamweaver as tools for web […]
I wrote in my last article about the joys of adding video to an HTM5 web site and the pain that is it to create several file format versions of each video just to satisfy all of the browsers out there. The news has since broken that Mozilla, the team behind Firefox, is proposing to […]
Whilst at Mix08 I heard an enchanting story from the the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, Dean Hachamovitch, apparently after the launch of a previous version of IE he came home from work one day to be greeted by his young daughter who said ‘ Daddy did YOU break the internet? ‘
I get many emails from readers who are frustrated at the difficulties of implementing AJAX type functionality within their latest web application project. Even sizable companies seem to be avoiding adding AJAX functionality for the time being. When I speak to them about their future developments they all claim that they are ‘looking into AJAX’ […]
Since my last article it has been a busy time in the Web application arena. Google launched their browser; ‘Chrome’ with it’s high performance JavaScript engine called ‘V8’ for those lovers of high performance ‘oily bits’. Having a fast JavaScript engine in your browser will help the performance of any AJAX web application as will […]
Why can’t we just have a single rendering engine I keep asking? The WebKit rendering engine that is used by the Safari browser and a number of other programs including Dreamweaver for its Live View mode is a move in the right direction, but I doubt we will see any attempts at conformity whilst the […]
There have been two main pieces of work that I have recently been involved with, each at opposite ends of the web development spectrum. The first was taking an old site where the layout was built many years ago using tables and converting it to a design using CSS. The other project is an information […]
The media is full of talk of HTML 5 and its capabilities, and whilst it is capable of impressive demonstrations, I have yet to find a great development tool for it. The various browser manufacturers are developing support for various levels of HTML 5 but Microsoft still has a long way to go with IE9 […]