Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web.
Check out the video tour of 2.6
Over the last few weeks I’ve been really getting evolved in the geo-coding scene, finding out what its all about, whether it’s useful or whether it’s yet another reason to prove George Orwell right when he wrote:
“Big Brother is watching you”
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
So what the futon is this new’ish devilry, well wiki says this, “Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude-longitude) to map features and other data records, such as street addresses. You can also geocode media, for example where a picture was taken, IP
addresses, and anything that has a geographic component. With geographic coordinates the features can be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems.”
So how does that affect my little universe? To answer this I first need to use the flux capacitor and take you back in time to last year where Tom Coates was speaking at d.construct. (his talk) Tom talked about a project he was working on called Fire Eagle that allowed applications to pass your geo location back and forth. (more…)
Okay so testing in Internet Explorer has always been testing (sorry about that - but it has!). IE 7 has shown a marked improvement in consistency but there are a large number of people still using IE 6, in fact a huge 28.9% of people which is unbelievable. Yet what is more unbelievable is that the figure is higher than the 24.9% of people using IE7. This figure is going up though and you can keep an eye on it here: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
So, it looks like we’re stuck with IE 6 for a while longer, and therefore testing on it is still necessary no matter how much you hate it (http://toastytech.com/evil/index.html). Testing on multiple browsers has always been a pain as you cannot run multiple versions of IE on a single operating system. Previous solutions to this problem have included: (more…)
Firefox 3 is a massive upgrade from Firefox 2 with more than 14,000 changes to the 2.0 generation that was released in October 2006. The great majority of those changes happened under the bonnet and aren’t immediately visible, but there are enough user-centric improvements to make this new version a worthwhile update.
If you expect Firefox 3 to be drastically different in appearance, features and UI philosophy than the previous version, then you will be disappointed up to the fact that you may wonder if this new browser should have been an incremental and minor upgrade instead. For instance, when you first fire up Firefox 3, you will hardly notice any visible difference to the previous version. However, there was nothing really wrong with the previous interface anyway and we are just fine with an evolutionary modification. (more…)
We are always happy to support our local community, whether it’s attending community training or lecturing at local schools and universities. This year we are pleased to announce that we are involved in the Southampton Schools Website Challenge 2008. Renaud Clarke, Director of Atelier Studios, will be on the panel of judges, alongside representatives from international, national and local businesses.
The Challenge has asked Renaud to talk at the Awards, to give an insight into his career and how the business started and grew to become Southampton’s most successful independent digital agency.
To find out more about the Southampton Schools Challenge please contact Robin J Smith, Education Project Manager www.solentskillquest.co.uk
As another tight season is about to commence Atelier Studios starts the 2008 Fantasy F1 league. Renaud Clarke, group director of fantasy leagues at Atelier says “being in control of the office firewall I can track and monitor key players, then at crucial moments i am then able to gain advantage by blocking the F1 website”
Renaud has picked:
A long-standing bug in Internet Explorer is the gaps it likes to insert between list items that contain block level elements, if there is any whitespace between the list items in the markup. You have probably seen it in action more times than you want to.
the release version of IE 7 still suffers from it
This bug was thought to have been fixed in IE 7 RC 1, and perhaps it was. That doesn’t really matter since the release version of IE 7 still suffers from it in certain circumstances. Just in case you’re looking for something that will fix this problem in both IE 6 and IE 7, I wanted to share this piece of knowledge. I originally thought this would soon be obsolete, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.
There are several different ways to skin this cat, but I found this the simplest to implement. (more…)
Hello Everyone,
We hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. We are really looking forward to working with you over the next 12 months.
January is the perfect time for a fresh, clean start to the year and what better way to get your client onto your website than by updating your content and changing your website images. As last year was so successful we are offering the same great discount of a massive 40% off all website updates in January. If you require any design work to be done on your website, why not book in some time with our designers.
Our Designers can:
For any January design work please ring on 02380 227117.
The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers.
To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics.
Work on HTML 5, which commenced in 2004, is currently being carried out in a joint effort between the W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG. Many key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft; and a range of other organisations and individuals with many diverse interests and expertise.
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