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Development Blog (31) What does the future of web design look like?Well it looks to be simpler and yet more complicated than before. The future of web design is still in the design ratification stage and after the first ideas and projects began on HTML5 in 2004 we are still a very long way away from agreeing on the standards that will be used with it when the time comes. The future is great and with our extensive use of HTML combined with other programming languages we can be assured that we will be coding less and creating more. Simplify and do more with less is the technological way of progression. It's easier to work with lots of small things, instead of lots of big things. Smarter users as well are forging the way ahead to make things easier and more attractive with less code to complicate things. HTML 5 is a new web structure blending fancy API's, CSS and Javascript. These three languages will give the singular HTML language extensive functionality for the future of web development. More adaptable ways to make graphics and text means less images and faster load times. Better optimizations, more easily understood code, better tracking and a profound user experience. We can see why it is taking so long to develop. Many of the functions are working today, but until there are some standardisations we will be forever complaining about browser compatibility. I know that is the worst part of what we do. If browser compatibility wasn't an issue, wouldn't we be using the same browser?
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Sunday, 30 May 2010 08:03
Enhance your website with free live chat software - LivezillaWritten by Chris Jacoby
This month I had the pleasure of integrating LiveZilla into our own website, www.gofishclientcatchers.com, and into some of our Gold clients’ websites - www.bestbeach.co.za, www.beachtag.co.za and www.howlo.co.za.
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 Joomla has become very popular amongst open source Content Management Solutions. Like most of it’s competitors, it is constantly evolving and it is important to keep your CMS up to date to benefit from the system and security updates.The latest stable Joomla version available is 1.5.15. Depending on your website requirements, you might have considered upgrading to the latest Joomla version. Here’s how you can achieve such an upgrade with very little downtime.
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 A basic Joomla module consists of two files, a XML file and a PHP file. The XML file stores information about the module. This information is used by the Joomla installer to install the module, and display the module information in the module manager in the Joomla administration backend.Additionally, the XML file can contain the module parameters which can be used to configure the module functionality. Below is an example of a XML file for a simple Joomla module:
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 Joomla makes use of templates to present your website information to the frontend user. All templates are stored in a folder entitled templates inside your Joomla installation directory. To create a new template, create a folder and name it mytemplate.As with all other extensions (components, modules and plugins), Joomla gathers information about your template by reading the XML in your template folder. So let's create our XML file. Create a new XML file inside the mytemplate folder and name it templateDetails.xml.
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Monday, 03 May 2010 06:24
CodeIgniter 2.0 – Pushing Web Application Development ForwardWritten by Chris Jacoby If you haven’t been so busy writing your next big thing, then you probably heard about the upcoming major release of CodeIgniter which jumps directly from 1.7.2 to 2.0.For those of you who don’t know what CodeIgniter is: CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP MVC framework built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured and powerful web applications. View CodeIgniter’s website for more information.
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 15:29
Add a Facebook Like Button to Your Site in 4 Easy Steps!Written by Chris Jacoby
Facebook is offering up a set of plugins (also known as widgets) and they call them Social Plugins. These plugins can be used on any web page to make that a bit more like Facebook in a way. There is a Like button plugin, a Recommendations plugin that shows what other pages people's friends are reading, an Activity Stream plugin that shows a simplified version of the visitor's personal Facebook news feed, and a Facebook Bar, a toolbar site owners can float at the bottom of the screen that serves all of these things at once. How to add the Like Button plugin onto your site. Step1: Create an Application and Get App ID You will need to create and save your new application on Facebook and save/copy the application ID. Create a Facebook application here. Step2: Build and get XBFML code Customize your like button and copy the XBFML code.
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Earlier this month a few of the leading ISP companies in South Africa launched their new uncapped ADSL services at an affordable rate. This is great for us South Africans! Below are these mentioned ISPs.
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 Lightbox is an application used to display large images inside modal windows. By now, most of us have come across a gallery that makes use of such an application. Clicking on the thumbnail in the gallery, brings up a modal window which displays the larger image. Over the years, the lightbox has been enhanced to display all sorts of content, not just images. Today, there are numerous lighbox variations available on the web. The Greybox, Lightbox JS, Greased Lightbox, Prototype window class, LITBox, Suckerfish HoverLightbox, Theickerbox, WP Lightbox, and the list goes on. All of these variations have their particular features. Where some are limited, others excel and vice versa. What is consistent with the different variations is that they all require a Javascript library to perform the desired functionality. The downside to loading the Javascript library, is that it affects the website load speed which can sometimes be annoying. If you require the same Javascript library to run a number of applications, it makes sense to go this route. But if the sole purpose of the Javascript library, is the lightbox effect, there is a simpler answer, a 100% CSS lighbox effect.
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A simple Joomla gallery plugin. This gallery came about by amalgamating 2 pieces of work. The first piece of work is a jquery gallery created by, coffeescriptor.com. I enjoyed working with this gallery, it has a great presentation, looks good and is easy to setup. The second piece of work is Simple Image Gallery from joomlaworks.gr. I love this group’s work. Along with some serious solutions and components, they have developed many small and useful Joomla plugins that make Joomla life much easier. So 2 thumbs up to them!
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