… to redo my site and move my blog. Or something like that. I’ve taken the decision to switch both my site and the old blog to a single platform, so have been looking at the CMS ecosystem. I tried … Continue reading
April 10, 2012
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Category Archives: web
September 16, 2011
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I applaud the IE team
Yes, you read that right. The IE team have been doing good work over the last couple of years, bringing IE into the standards world, but I never thought I’d hear myself saying I applaud them. I always had this … Continue reading
June 22, 2011
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RSS versus Twitter
Helen feels her RSS feeds are stale, mentioning that many feeds have dropped off due to twitter. This is probably true, twitter has become a micro-blogging medium, although I suspect the general effort of blogging is a factor too. But … Continue reading
September 21, 2007
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Insulting and worrying your users
Error messages are never a good thing to receive when you’re a user; they always make you feel you’ve done something wrong. Case in point: Now, forgive me for being pedantic, but the heading and message don’t say the … Continue reading
December 29, 2006
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Main blog page down
Just in case anyone access the main page for my blog (http://blogs.ipona.com/davids), hey’ll notice there is an application error that I haven’t tracked down. It’s weird, because I’ve changed no settings and all other blogs hostedwithin the same application work … Continue reading
November 24, 2006
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User Interface Testing
Yesterday I spent all day in a meeting. It’s something my new client does once a month, going ove all aspects of its business. Generally I’m against meetings, even short ones and even though this dragged on a bit, it … Continue reading
October 30, 2006
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IE DOM and style attributes
As much a reminder to myself as aid for anyone with a similar problem. I’ve been doing some client-side scripting, using the HTML DOM and hit a problem when accessing the attributes of an element, specifically the style attribute. IE … Continue reading
September 30, 2006
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The modern age comes to middle England
At long last Alex Homer has brought himself into the 21st century by supplying an RSS feed for his diary entries. I can’t call it a blog as he still uses metal letters arranged in a rack, with a room full … Continue reading
September 19, 2006
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Web Site Dumbness
I’ve just tried to renew my membership to the Microsoft Parnter Program, but been halted by an overly-restrictive website. The renewal process has a section asking for your VAT number, indicating that certain EU countries are exempt from VAT on … Continue reading
September 11, 2006
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What’s up with Microsoft Connect?
So what’s up with with Microsoft Connect? I couldn’t get in at all yesterday, nor today. I just get timeouts, as does Alex. Plip seems to be able to get to it though. Anyone else having trouble?