Bringing the web to life with HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript

By: Johan van der Merwe

digitalpro's ideal of becoming a HTML5 compliant web development company has presented me with the opportunity to widen my arsenal of design tools.

With the advent of HTML5 and CSS3 comes a gamut of issues being raised and with its implementation as the new web standard looming we, as a 'cutting edge' web development and design company, have stayed on top of the new technologies available.digitalpro’s greatest concern is with the cross-browser/ platform compatibility of the sites we build, as to give consistency and stability ...

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HTML5, CSS3, Browser Compatibility and where we're at

In the last 2 months we have been researching HTML5, CSS3 and the feasibility of using the new technology when starting new projects. Our greatest concern was browser compatibility. Even the latest browsers do not support all of the HTML5 features and even the supported HTML elements differ.  Check this link for a browser compatibility list: www.findmebyip.com/litmus/.

We’ve decided that in our implementation we don't just want to validate as HTML5 (validator.w3.org), ...

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A decade with a valued client

digitalpro's relationship with Chris Loker kicked off about 10 years ago. We furbished him with everything from websites, package design (I still have a sample in my office drawer), business cards, membership cards, clothing tags, Point of Sales equipment.. the works.

He then embarked on a new venture many of you may be familiar with, called 20twenty... yes, that one. He acted as Chief Operating Officer.

Now he is back with a new project called, Water Financial.

Water Financial ...

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Cleaning iFrame viruses

Anyone that has had to clean a website hacked by an iFrame virus will know how frustrating and time consuming it can be. We've had to do this to help out some clients in the past and so we've come up with this handy script:

find ./ -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/<div style=\"display:none\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.offending.site:8080/index.php\" width=556 height=731 ><\/iframe><\/div>//g' '{}' \;

To clean an infected site, all you need ...

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The Virtues of Framework Development

When I started with web development many years ago, Object Orientated Programming (OOP) had just becomes possible in PHP. We built our sites accordingly and thought that we were cutting edge.

Although OOP did a lot to cut down the number of lines of code in a web application, there was still a lot of redundant, repetitive work to be done to get basic add/edit/delete/view functionality in these objects. For every object, each of these functions had to be physically coded and depending on the object structure, this could be rather labour intensive.

Programmers ...

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Proud sponsors of all Cape of Good Hope SPCA email marketing

On a rainy day back  in June 2010 we received a newsletter from the SPCA asking for donations. We immediately noticed that the newsletter simply could not have the desired affect on potential donors.

Being animal lovers and all of us pet owners, we contacted them and set up a meeting at our offices. Lamees showed up and expressed her concern about their current providers and lack of response to newsletters being sent.

We unanimously agreed to design, manage and facilitate all their email newsletter campaigns, in the name of charity.

Since then we have ...

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Hotshot Hotspot Manager reaches for the stars

Two new 5 star hotels and two new Hotshot managed Wi-Fi networks.

The re-vamped Oyster Box hotel in Durban and the 15 On Orange hotel in Cape Town are 2 new much needed additions to the South African hotel offering. Both these hotels set high standards. The obvious choice for guest Internet was our new hotspot management software.

Free Internet offerings in large hotels have become a popular request. This brings unique challenges that need to be met. ...

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