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Dpivision.com Ltd warmly welcomes our newest recruit to the team - Stephen Moy, a recent graduate of Newcastle College is our newest designer. With a flair for user-centered design and a passion for clean, standards-based markup, Stephen is already rising to the challenge of working with the rest of the guys, and is fitting in extremely well.
Tradingeye is pleased to announce the launch of the latest Tradingeye v5.05. This upgrade is available at no extra cost to existing Tradingeye customers.
If you would like to receive the upgrade, please submit a support ticket and also attach the current /libs/ and license file for your current setup.
A full list of revisions and change log will be provided which includes new features, improvements and patches.
Please also note that to upgrade to Tradingeye 5.05 you must first be running Tradingeye 5.04.
By Andy Clarke, Stuff and Nonsense.
Malarkey is Andy Clarke, a UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility. Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer and author and he founded Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. Andy is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.
Finally designers and developers have what they want: a standards-based, highly accessible and professional ecommerce solution that has fewer limitations than anything we have seen so far. When I sold my shares in Karova earlier this year, many people wrote to me asking whether or not I was still using Karova Store (KS2) accessible, css based e-commerce software for my clients and whether I would still recommended it to them. The answer was no, and as the question keeps getting asked, it’s time to go public with the reasons why. I am still extremely proud of the work that I did on the Karova Store software, improving the markup, usability and accessibility, and introducing Microformats (albeit in a very limited form). I am even more proud of the legacy that I left them; a strong visual identity and a web site design that I consider to be among some of my best work. But for several reasons I cannot now recommend their software to my customers as a solution to their ecommerce needs, not least because of the fact that when I have inquired on the price of updates and extensions to its core functionality, the price quoted has been far in excess of what I know to be fair. Added to this the inflexibility of their hosting options and the difficulty of my customers owning their site (not just owning the data that they input), I needed to find an alternative solution.
Tradingeye came to my attention again after being highly recommended by a number of my friends and colleagues. The flexibility of its templates, as well as the developers’ keeness to work with the standards community to continue to improve them, impressed me. Added to this the sheer depth of their product and its ability to already integrate with Sage and Act!, both popular business packages, peaked my interest. Although the software is currently offered with a Cold Fusion back-end, the developers are keen to allow Tradingeye to run on any server that supports Cold Fusion. This means that designers, developers and their clients have a far greater choice of hosts: something that Karova Store sadly does not offer for various technical and business reasons. A new PHP version of Tradingeye is in final testing and will be released in the next few weeks. I’m sure that this will eventually make the Cold Fusion version redundant as it finally give designers and developers what they want: a standards-based, highly accessible and professional ecommerce solution that has fewer limitations than anything that we have seen so far. In all my dealings with them I have been so pleased at the attitude and responsiveness of the team at dpvision, the company behind Tradingeye, that I will be helping them in the future; as I know will be a number of my accessibility specialist colleagues, to make Tradingeye’s markup even more flexible and accessible. So it’s out with the old and in with the new. I’ll be writing more about ecommerce later this week with a special Christmas ecommerce givaway. Ho, ho, ho!
A new Design & Demand Grant of 50% is now available to all businesses in the North East so if you’d like any more information on what funding is available, what type of work is covered or would even like to discuss your own project in more detail, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
We are proud to be able to offer our customers - both existing and prospective - the option of upgrading to our state-of-the-art RAID5 hosting solution. This solution provides site owners with one of the most secure, fault-proof hosting systems available. By mirroring sites across three discs, the RAID5 setup guarantees network uptime should one disc fail or become damaged in any way. Subscribers to the RAID5 solution will benefit from increased performance, guaranteed network uptime and of course, extra peace of mind, knowing that even if one drive should fail, their site(s) will still be live and kicking.