Mark Newton
Adobe Edge is very much work in progress but is still useful within its limits Adobe came to the rescue again with a beta of their new design tool called ‘Edge’. Currently this can only be used for creating animations using the familiar objects on a time-line interface, unsurprisingly very much like Flash designer. However […]
I had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft Mix 08 conference in Las Vegas and whilst I have denied claims by friends and family that I had a Microsoft implant fitted because of my excitement at what I saw there, there is no doubt that Microsoft has some very powerful and exciting technologies in development. […]
Server Defender can make the life of an IIS administrator much easier Hosting web sites can seem like easy money. Just stick some files on a server and charge your customer a monthly fee. Easy stuff, but like a lot of things that appear to be easy to the uninitiated a lot of extra work […]
Testing your web site for these vulnerabilities can be very tedious, particularly if it is a large site, so what is needed is an automated way of testing a web site for such problems. Thankfully there is a very good tool available to Windows users. Acunetix Web Vulnerability scanner is very good but the full […]
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 […]
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 […]