http://www.activoinc.com/blog Web Development in a Web 2.0 World Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:27:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have been receiving a lot of comparison inquiries lately and I wanted to put this simple Joomla vs Ektron content management systems comparison table out there. Have in mind that much of the decision of which CMS to choose for your company or organization is usually made way before ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/09/05/joomla-vs-ektron/ Google Chrome is new (still in beta) and I went a head and installed it on one of our VMs. It seems like a lot of the functionality from the popular Firefox extension 'FireBug' is built in. Here are the screen shots: [caption id="attachment_42" align="alignnone" width="446" caption="Google Chrome Screenshot 1: Main ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/09/03/first-google-chrome-screenshots/ Google is now officially in the browser business. I guess that the google bars wasn't enough of a penetration into the browser market and Google wanted/needed additional features (and feedback?) from users. Anyway, Google now offers a new web browser: Chrome. Google also explained briefly why they have decided to ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/09/02/new-web-browser-by-google-chrome/ Written by Kimberly Elam, Web Design by Design made me think twice before running to draft the next web site design with our designer. This same minimalistic approach of almost too little but just enough to make a clear point approach is great because it begs for more. As Kimberly ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/08/27/inspiring-commentary-article-on-web-design-practices/ The ZenCart developer team seems to be hard at work and preparing to deliver a new version of ZenCart: ver 1.4. The core developers posted a roadmap brief for version 1.4 back in September of 2007. Recently, additional entries have been posted in the forums describing in more detail the ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/08/25/zencart-ver-1-4-looking-ahead/ Just a quick note that Authorize.net will be upping the limit on the transaction id field. Apperently, they are close to reaching the limit of the field type, so they are adding digits to the field - we are talking about some really big numbers! ZenCart seems to have acknowledged ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/08/21/authorizenet-changes-transaction-id-field-zencart-passes-tests/ I noticed one of our client's IIS web servers was getting a lot of SQL Injection attempts this past week. These attacks pass T-SQL code into querystring parameters in hopes that the application is not checking inputs. Here's the code: (I removed the SQL exec() statement and replaced it with ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/08/19/hack-attempt-sql-injection-tagreting-ms-sql-servers/ You'll love Joomla! CMS because it is a great open source and free CMS with lots of features, stable releases, and it comes with a huge supporting community. Don't get us wrong, we love Joomla CMS too and truly believe that this open source application is a big head ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/08/19/5-missing-features-preventing-joomla-cms-from-entering-the-enterprise-cms-market/ We recently spotted an article from Bill Roger's blog (Ektron's CEO) which discusses usage of the Ektron Server Controls v.s. Ektron's API. At Activo, we are constantly using both approaches and indeed each approach is a bit different and is used in different situations. The article makes it much clearer ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/07/30/ektron-clarification-on-user-controls-vs-api/ Those of you who worked with Activo on SEO projects know that we have always opposed Flash. At Activo we always valued traffic over look & feel which translated into avoiding Flash technology altogether. Well, no more! If it is true that Flash sites can now receive 'equal' treatment, then ... http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/07/05/flash-and-search-engine-optimization-seo/