This week Mozilla released the latest version of its popular Firefox browsers. Among the main benefits of Firefox 2.0 include: Enhanced security Features new anti-phishing functionality, (identify’s scam sites) Improved tabbed browsing. Recovers your opened tabs if computer unexpectedly crashes. This will also save a half finished blog entry. – could be very useful. More […]

Interesting blog entry about how viewers read a screen. What I learned from Eye Tracking Using an eye tracking programme the video plots how people scan across a screen. Often people go quickly from one thing to the next. There is little evidence of people actually reading the text. Most people are scanning for a […]

A ‘speed is better than perfection’ philosophy might be applied to many areas of life, but documentation is not one of them. Unfortunately the standard of documentation needed so that 90% of people can follow it is, well, 90% perfect. It actually doesnt take all that much longer to write good documentation once you sit […]

Sidebars We recently covered the use here of two very handy features of reStructured Text (reST): namely the sidebar and figure directives. Sidebars and figures are very useful features for adding additional content styles to documents using reST, for example web diaries created using the EasyBlog product… All about sidebars a small aside… A sidebar […]

Here is a very good article on bug reporting, discovered by Atmasamarpan: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html It certainly helped me sympathise with poor developers and curb my linguistic excesses when reporting problems. Whenever possible, screenshots really help to pinpoint the problem by making the developer or Plone admin see what you’re seeing. Below are some instructions for screenshots […]

Again from my email clear out, I have found a few more tips, this time suggested by Priyadarshan….. Drag and drop item reordering in Plone 2.5 You can just reorder the order items have in a folder just by dragging and dropping them around. This is of course of great usefulness, since the order in […]

I was cleaning out my mail account today and discovered this rather interesting tip from Richard which he divulged to me decades ago…if you want to boost the standing of an image on your Plone site in Google Images, one way would be to make images viewable in navigation (via preferences -> navigation settings). This […]

Another Guide to reStructured text which consists of the 7 functions I find most useful (plus three others which Shane found useful but was too lazy to write his own article). Not comprehensive but good to make a start. Also, for a listing of links to other articles and guides on restructured text, see our […]

We’ve written lofty paeans in praise of reStructured Text without bothering to tell people how to select it; we’ve now updated our Changing your Content Editor page to do the needful… BTW, the excellent reStructured Text primer is a bit scarce on adding links; we’ve also updated the adding links page too…

Those who are not familiar restructured text may initially bemoan it’s lack of power and flexibility when compared to XHTML, but as often the case in life, initial appearances can be deceiving. Although the use of CSS for styling and presentation is "best practice" in XHTML, it is not yet mandatory, which allows anyone with […]