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Peter Barnes

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  QR Tags

  QR tags in the delegate pack a la Dev8D?

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  Submitted by Peter Barnes 2 years ago

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  WordPress as a lightweight CMS

  WordPress is best known as a blogging app, but in fact works very well as a lightweight CMS for small sites, especially with plugins for functions such as event management. Best of all, it's UI is very intuitive and so you shouldn't get many support calls from users if you are the supporter for the system. If self hosting isn't an option, many hosting companies, as well as wordpress.com, offer WordPress as part of their ...more »

  WordPress is best known as a blogging app, but in fact works very well as a lightweight CMS for small sites, especially with plugins for functions such as event management. Best of all, it's UI is very intuitive and so you shouldn't get many support calls from users if you are the supporter for the system.

  If self hosting isn't an option, many hosting companies, as well as wordpress.com, offer WordPress as part of their service.

  So, if you'd like to see a demo of the rich functionality of WordPress, and the ease of setting up a WordPress site with your own domain I'm happy to oblige.

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  Submitted by Peter Barnes 2 years ago

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  Accessibility, Inclusiveness and the Mobile Web

  ~ Or ~ Yes, there is an app for that Mr Jobs, it's called the browser! The web development community fought long and hard to get browser vendors to support open standards properly. However, the current fad for smart phone apps threatens to lead us back to fragmentation every bit as worse as the days of the browser wars, or possibly worse still. So, can HTML & CCS3 based web apps counter this trend? How hard hard they ...more »

  ~ Or ~ Yes, there is an app for that Mr Jobs, it's called the browser!

  The web development community fought long and hard to get browser vendors to support open standards properly. However, the current fad for smart phone apps threatens to lead us back to fragmentation every bit as worse as the days of the browser wars, or possibly worse still.

  So, can HTML & CCS3 based web apps counter this trend? How hard hard they to build compared to a conventional 'desk top' site?

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  Submitted by Peter Barnes 2 years ago

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