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Another CodeIgniter Project - Car Sages
Posted: 24th Mar 2009
Another project we finished a few weeks ago was a site called Car Sages. A car questions and answers community. It was an experiment to see how long it would take to build a site with user registration, question asking and answering and other nifty features like AJAX search and autocomplete.
Well it took 2 days - roughly 18 hours. Thanks to CodeIgniter. The site is far from complete, but it goes to show what you can do when you have a spare weekend and not a lot else to do. :-)
Invite Share
Posted: 25th Mar 2009
There's a lot of things bubbling at the moment with Haloweb. We've got Halogy being branded, Project Bubble in Beta and lots more projects in development. We will be inviting people to use our private betas very soon, and we found just the tool to do it. It's called Invite Share - check it out. You'll get your invites very soon for our new Halogy CMS and Project Management Software.
Why People Use Social Networking
Posted: 26th Mar 2009
An excellent recent post on Seth Godin's blog reveals the 5 pillars of social media success. Basically why do people use social networking sites? We liked his reasons...
- Who likes me?
- Is everything okay?
- How can I become more popular?
- What's new?
- I'm bored, let's make some noise
Tidy Domain Name with a Regular Expression
Posted: 27th Mar 2009
TECHY WARNING: This post has 'techy talk' be warned
We have just been working on Halogy and making a Javascript and PHP function that tidies domain names. We thought we would share it!
If you want to remove the 'http://www' from a string, or even just the 'www' or the 'http://' use this really nifty regular expression:
// get the old untidy domain string and tidy it
$str = 'http://www.haloweb.co.uk';
$newStr = preg_replace('/^(http)s?:\/+((w+)\.)?|^www\.|\/+/i', '', $str);
// and this will output your new tidy string!
echo $newStr;
Simplicity in Design (1)
Posted: 31st Mar 2009
We're starting a series on Simplicity in Design. We thought we'd start off with a couple of sites that we really like which have very simple designs.
What do you think it is about these sites that makes them so simple? Is it the colour palette? Is it the Information Architecture? Why is simplicity in design so important?
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