CMS Watch

I have been doing a lot of CMS installations of late and I am amazed at the continued quality improvements. The following is the screenshot associated with osCommerce, a good commerce website with very nice features for setting up your web business including categories, products, shopping cart, shipping module, and support for Paypal plus 20 […]

Addendum on AJAX

AJAX is getting a lot of attention with the likes of Flickr.com, backpackit.com and Google Mail already changing the landscape of what can be done with greater speed and yet retain GUI richess while working in the relatively familiar JavaScript/HTML/CSS/XML/DOM world that is DHTML. We have raised big view issues and AJAX is far from […]

Website Makeovers: The Importance of Graphic Design

I did a website makeover for www.maynetravel.com back in 2004. No big deal. Here is the proforma before and after shots. Yes, please do visit the after site to see the progression: Old Design First redesign And here is the latest design done by the Ensemble Group when Mayne joined it. What is important to […]

Heck of a Good Review

Mike Heck and Infoworld deserve top marks for doing an old fashioned, comprehensive and good review of the Portal Software and 7 of the major players there: BEA Portal Server, IBM Webphere Portal, Microsoft SharePoint Portal, OracleAS Portal 10g, Plumtree Suite, Sun Java Portal, Vignette Application Portal are all covered in great depth. In fact […]