Mark Newton
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 […]
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 […]
Regular followers of Microsoft’s evolution of web development will know that for years they have been struggling to separate code from design and it could be argued that they have achieved this with ASP .NET. So why, I ask myself, would they produce a new language that seems to fly in the face of this […]
In my conversations with Microsoft this month the topic of development tools came up and why web developers choose certain ones and technologies over others. The choice of which technology to use I think is decided by a combination of the available hosting options, the familiarity of the programming language, the development tools and debugging […]
I was intrigued when an announcement came from Adobe for a new web design tool called ‘Muse’. Currently this is on free trial but will be a subscription based product like Office 365 and will cost $15 a month. Adobe’s Muse shows the way to go with HTML design tools My first impressions with this […]
The next stage in testing your web design is the testing it in different browsers One of the problems here is of Microsoft’s doing in that you can’t have previous versions of their browser installed on the same machine. To get round this problem and also announced at Mix09, SuperPreview allows you to display the […]
There is an old saying ‘You get nothing for free’ and in the case of Google maps its API and Geo-coding of Postcodes, that is exactly what you get; ‘nothing’. Now before everyone emails me to say what a wonderful free service Google Maps is, (a sentiment that in the main I agree with), let […]
Hosting is always an issue for any web developer, sometimes the technologies that you can use are limited to what ever your hosting provider provide. It would be foolish to host an untried technology on your company’s web server just in case it brings down your main web site ( unlikely, but it could expose […]
Now we come to perhaps the best and most worthwhile feature of Dreamweaver CS3. I have complained bitterly in the past on basically how useless Dreamweaver has become when designing and testing web sites with complicated CSS designs. The problem has been the rendering of the HTML/ CSS in the design view in Dreamweaver which […]
Verdict: DreamWeaver 3 has built on the strengths of the previous version. It is now a very customisable development tool. Shame about the incomplete support for DHTML Supplier: Software Warehouse Ltd 0800 0355 355Internet: www.macromedia.com Availability: Now System Requirements: Pentium II, Windows 95/98/NT4 srvpk3,64M Ram,100M of hard disc,CD. Also available for Mac G3 As regular readers to this magazine […]