Web Anatomy by Lana Kovacevic

The Web 2.0 era has dawned upon us and is transforming the way we interact with the Web as we continue to expand the boundaries and strive for a more embellished user experience. Lana Kovacevic explores the world of the Web and brings you the latest tips, trends and tricks.

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Aug 14

Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts

Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. You can even add your own to the list. To start using the layouts, click File and then New. Select Blank Page, HTML as page type and one of the layouts. For example, 2 column elastic, left side bar. On the right-hand side a preview of the layout along with a description will be displayed. The CSS [...] Read more »

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Tags: web design, website, html, layout, dreamweaver, css, adobe

Jul 11

Google opens up the code for Browser Sync

After deciding to discontinue its Browser Sync, Google has decided to make the code open source to let developers continue hacking. Browser Sync is an extension for Firefox that regularly synchronises your settings like bookmarks, browsing history, cookies, saved passwords, tabs and open windows across your different computers and sessions. A Google account is required to store this information. [...] Read more »

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Tags: browser sync, firefox, google, extension, browser, open source

Jul 07

Spry Game

At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Spry is another JavaScript library designed to make AJAX development easier. As Rewis puts it, it is ideal for "folks who don't dream of the DOM". Fundamentally, it lets you write AJAX with less code. If you are a fan of Dreamweaver this framework might come in handy, as it is [...] Read more »

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Tags: webdu, spry, dreamweaver, ajax, web development, adobe, conference

Jul 03

What's new in GWT 1.5?

I recently wrote an introduction to the Google Web Toolkit based on Lars Rasmussen's session at the Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney. Following the introductory session Lars gave us a deeper insight into GWT, particularly what's new in version 1.5. The features that are worth mentioning are the new DOM API and JavaScript overlay types. DOM Programming GWT DOM programming allows you [...] Read more »

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Tags: javascript, json, java, google, web development, conference

Jul 02

The Portal of the Future

At this year’s Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer’s talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". According to Gene, the main difference between a regular website and a portal is personalisation, which goes beyond the typical "Hello Gene". There are two JSRs that define the behaviour of portals -- 168 and 286. He says people [...] Read more »

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Tags: web services, gartner, portal, yahoo, google, web

Jun 24

Lets Shindig!

Following the introductory presentation on OpenSocial at the Google Developer Day conference in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad delved into the workings of Shindig with their presentation "Apache Shindig: Make your social site an OpenSocial container". What is Shindig? Shindig, a project in Apache Software Foundation Incubation is an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. [...] Read more »

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Tags: apache, opensocial, google, gadget, conference

Jun 19

Social Skills

With Facebook usage on the decline (as shown by a recent Ovum survey), could OpenSocial be the next big thing? At the Google Developer Day 2008, I attended Dan Peterson’s talk on OpenSocial, “OpenSocial: A standard for the social Web”. Dan kicked off the presentation by describing the notion of the Social Web. The Web is about sharing information and people are the providers of that information. [...] Read more »

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Tags: opensocial, google, web

Jun 12

Firefox 3 out on June 17th

After five betas and three release candidates, Firefox 3 is finally coming out. The popular browser is due to be released on the 17th of June. Both developers and users will benefit from this new offering from Mozilla. It'll be good to see the extensions working properly without having to hack them. I've been using Firefox for ages and apart from slowness (if you don't believe me compare [...] Read more »

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Tags: firefox, mozilla, browser, web

Jun 12

One ID to rule them all

These days, with so many services on offer, chances are you'll have to remember more than one ID-password combination, assuming you are security-aware and are not using the same login details on all websites. How many times have you forgotten your password and had to reset it? It's annoying and a waste of time. You probably know you're going to forget it again anyhow, especially if you don't [...] Read more »

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Tags: openid, password, yahoo, security

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