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This second part of the first ImpressCMS IPF webcast gives a walkthrough of the blocks functionality, which was recently rewritten using IPF.
Next webcast in this session is on Monday 14 December 2009, at 21:00 (GMT)
Box UK has a checklist available that should list the most important steps to take when launching a site. It was previously mentioned at Web Resources Depot. While I agree that you need a good checklist, I find the one presented here too oriented towards the layout and the design. Pre-launch marketing is not mentioned, and we know that’s a very important part of a succesfull initial launch.
Still, it can help to build your own strategy, by building on this document. The original can be found at the Box UK site.
J’ai bidouillé un peu avec Inkscape, et voilà le résultat: un logo possible pour le ImpressCMS beta 1
De belastingbrieven beginnen stilaan bij de meeste mensen in de bus te vallen, en daarbij wordt iedereen sterk aangeraden, het grenst bijna aan smeken, om ook Tax On Web te overwegen, de elektronische belastingaangifte. Recent werd in de pers openlijk gespeculeerd dat de papieren aangifte door de FOD Financiën wordt gesaboteerd om de electronische varianten te promoten.
Zo’n zaken doen het natuurlijk goed als slogan in volle verkiezingscampagne, maar laten qua nuancering meestal wat te wensen over. Ik vroeg mij dus af of zo’n sabotage-actie wel nodig was om de mensen over de streep te trekken. Er gaat toch niets boven de electronische aangifte: snel, onmiddellijke en redelijk accurate simulatie van wat je eventueel terug krijgt, je hoeft er je huis niet voor uit en je kan hem indienen op elk moment van de dag of nacht? Alleen maar voordelen. Of zag ik dat dan verkeerd?
Ik gebruik Tax-On-Web nu al voor het derde jaar, dus zo’n groentje ben ik niet meer. Om de test eerlijk te laten verlopen heb ik mijn vader ingeschakeld. Hij begint stilaan zijn weg te kennen op het internet, maar beschouwt zichzelf zeker niet als expert ter zake.
Hij was, net als zovele anderen, één van de atleten die zich elk jaar klaarmaakten voor de nationale sport: om 5 voor twaalf op de laatst mogelijke dag de ingevulde belastingaangiftes in de bus van het lokale belastingkantoor gaan proppen. Mijn doel was om hem dit jaar daar niet in de rij te doen staan.
I’ve been tinkering with Inkscape lately, a free vector drawing tool, and I’m slowly getting more confident with it. I want the 3mension.com look to be up-to-date and web 2.0-ish, so I have to learn how to make those glossy icons with a hint of depth and reflection. I found some icon creation tutorials, and that’s what I’m wading through now.
I might not wait until these icons have been finalized to launch the site. After all, there hasn’t been anything tangible on the 3mension.com front I was able to show for far too long. I can blame the skiing holidays and some changed at my day-job for that, but that doesn’t change the outcome : nothing yet.
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Much inspiration here, I’ll post samples as I finish them.
A new major release of WordPress, now at version 2.7, has been released. The visitors of your site won’t see much difference (maybe the slight speed improvement while building the pages), but the people using the administrator interface will certainly notice that nothing has remained the same.
Not only has the admin interface changed from a horizontal list of links under the header to some sort of menu on the left-hand of the interface, you also have a better overview of what is going on. The developers (and especially the theme developers) really outdid themselves here in putting as much on the screen while still keeping it readable and reasonably clean.
It was one of those days I must have felt a bit overconfident. When you read why I think so, I’m sure you’ll all agree. Surfing on the forums of the GarageGames web site, I came across some posts by artists that wanted to share their work with the world. To do that, they were using free hosting sites, among them GeoCities, that impose restrictions on the daily amount of data your site sends over the network. I can understand the GeoCities decision, as they don’t want to host half of the world’s pirated software on free sites. Limiting the distribution of files in this way is a very efficient way for GeoCities, but it kind of limits the usefulness of the service for people wanting to distribute their assets.
I recently changed hosting company, and they provide me with next to unlimited storage space, and tens of gigabytes of data traffic each month. At the moment, my usage doesn’t even come up to 0,1 percent. One could state I still have some capacity left. So, I decided to contact some people and propose them to host their files, and to build a site around it. I figured it would take me a few hours and I would be done.
Oh boy, was I wrong…
It seems the Web 2.0 generation is growing up. After more than a year in public beta, and over two years in development, the new version of Yahoo!Mail has finally been let loose as a finished product. The change of the service from beta to release also brought a slightly different look with it.
When looking on the Yahoo! Mail Blog it is apparently a process that has been running for some days already, but given the amount of mail accounts they have to migrate (255 Million, yes, that’s 255 with six 0′s behind it), and the amount of different types of accounts, the system needs some time to process them all.
Moreover, Yahoo! Mail is celebrating it’s 10 years of existance. For a timeline, have a look at Yodel.
I must say I’m pretty satisfied with the entire mail/calendar/messenger experience. The only drawback is that there is absolutely no calendar sync possibility that I know of that works with non-Outlook solutions. There’s no Calendar API as of yet, so I guess development of that type of application or service won’t happen in the near future.
