Gareth Lennox

Category Archives: web

Google and search ranking

I’ve recently finished a new site for a client, and in the process of developing, I uploaded a test site to a web server for the client to review. Since going live with the actual site, I left the test site up and running (in the assumption that its less effort to leave it up [...]

The Future of Web Apps summit

You want to know what all the big guys are doing out there in the “web 2.0″ world? Have a listen to the mp3s of the “Future of Web Apps” summit. There are guys from del.icio.us, Flickr, 37Signals, Google, Yahoo and others speaking. I have yet to listen to all of them, but the ones [...]

Editing magic

TinyMCE rocks! I have been integrating it into our content management system, and I must say its impressive. Its very easy to use, and Just Works™, unlike some other web rich text editors out there. I managed to build a custom link screen in a couple of hours, with very little javascript. Another bonus is [...]

No more ads in Opera

I just saw now on The Register that the opera web browser has had its built in ads removed, and is now fully free. Sounds like a good move to encourage usage of the browser. I have shied away from it in the past because of the ads, maybe now is a good time to [...]

Ajax-enabled user interfaces

There have been lots of people writing about ajax recently, and more importantly about ajax accessibility. Keeping it simple, I want to focus on what happens when a user has javascript off, or the browser doesn’t support the XMLHttpRequest object. Now this may seem obvious, but your interface should work without javascript enabled. Maybe it [...]

Keeping a session alive

One of the problems we found with people using our content management system was that, frequently, they would take very long editing a page, causing the session to time out, thereby losing their changes. We could have written code to catch the timout session, and somehow not lose their changes, but we decided on a [...]