One of our weak points usually is the design integration tasks, if you are lucky you can have a very skilled web designer that gives you a cool cross-browser compatible markup that fits perfectly in your application, but most of the times you’re lucky if the HTML works perfectly in the plain html file and almost never the designer will be able t... [Read More]

Sometimes you need to create a custom RSS feed for your site, and the product you’re using (MOSS, Umbraco, a custom development,…) does not provide what you exactly need. So you start thinking about building your own feed.
The first attempt is to build the XML yourself, but you’ll find that it can be a little tricky, but think a while… since... [Read More]

Via twitter my friend Bruno pointed us to this site, that contains this excellent ebook about advanced css.
I’ve had only time to take a quick look at it, but it seems very complete and easy to follow.
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IE8 introduced a new element called webslices, it is a microformat that allows the visitor of a page to subscribe to a certain portion of the page. It’s different to an rss since there are no posts or xml involved, only “one time” html, but it shares the concept of “subscription”.
The way to implement that is the same as all the microforma... [Read More]

I’ve been thinking about some alternatives to MOSS when the customer can’t afford the license cost, or simply it is overkill due to the necessities, so I’ve made this list of questions to evaluate a CMS solution aimed at a professional environment (In no particular order):
Scalability Will the solution escalate to support your expected user... [Read More]

Muchas veces tenemos que probar un diseño en múltiples versiones de los navegadores. Con firefox podemos tener varias si ejecutamos una desde la máquina y otra desde un pendrive por ejemplo (usando algo como U3 o similar).
En caso de Internet Explorer es más difícil porque como está tan metido en el SO, en principio parece que no se puede ... [Read More]

Me he instalado en casa la beta 2 de IE8! La verdad es que parece bastante más pulida que la beta 1 que llevaba usando desde hace unos meses (con pocos problemas en mi caso todo hay que decir). Aquí van algunos cambios:
Funciona con mas páginas sin necesidad de activar el modo de compatibilidad. El modo de compatibilidad se puede activar so... [Read More]