This post is a long work in progress but…
On this site, you may hear us mentioning a product called flow. This product is our core platform, which powers website we develop on.
The code behind flow could be described as an MVC-like structure but some things we do are different.
Web design is very different from other mediums because half the time spent designing a website is wasted solving technical problems. For a start, a website on your screen might not look the same on someone elses. You might see a few small differences or in extreme cases the whole page can come out looking scrambled. The problem is there are so many differences between all the computers out there.
You probably dont notice this in your day to day browsing because web designers make allot of effort to get sites working on all the different browsers and computers use. Designers spend much of their time just trying to get their concept from paper to screen. Its not hard to imagine how this struggle leads to lazy design and corner cutting.
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Building our network, improving products to solve our own information problems, maybe this will help you too.
At gobisoft, we’re constantly on the road and several of our employees work away from the office, so keeping a semi-centralised (the ’semi’ bit I’ll talk about in another post) location for our data is important.
We started by having folders on our own desktops and a ‘project’ directory on one of our webservers for common documents which we would access over SFTP. But this means we needed to use SCP/SFTP clients like WinSCP and Transmit.
Many journalists and commentators have tried to point out that the arrival of Google gears could spell the beginning of the end for Microsoft and other application developers. We think about it differently. (more…)
The Web is making a shift once again and it’s going to be great. Within the next few years there will be an incredible growth in mobile phone Internet usage. Cheap tariffs and larger screens will lead the way in this revolution and it will be another significant change in what has already been an incredible few decades.
What this change means for business owners is that websites will become twice as relevant as they are now. What was once restricted to being accessed sitting down at a desk will be more prominent than newspapers and billboards. (more…)