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Jquery Dropdown Menu
Posted: 3rd Apr 2009
We have just revised the drop down menu on our CMS. We wanted something that had a really small filesize, was really simple, fast, worked in all browsers and used Jquery. Previously we had been using something that was quite slow and were finding glitches with it in IE6. Now we have found something REALLY simple and it justs uses Jquery to add and remove classes. The CSS is simpler too!
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;
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. :-)
Project Management Made Easy
Posted: 18th Mar 2009
Over the last year we have been working on a web application called Project Bubble. The aim is to provide project management software for self-employed people or small businesses that has the really easy to use philosophy. We use BaseCamp and we like it, but we want to provide our own offering with a Haloweb angle. So in comes Project Bubble, a fun, friendly and easy to use account and project management system.
The Halogy Screencasts - Permissions
Posted: 12th Mar 2009
Earlier we shared about our new permissions system. We have made a quick screencast showing you this new feature and how easy it is to grant different permissions to your users.
The Halogy Screencasts - Templates (advanced)
Posted: 12th Mar 2009
In this second Halogy screencast we go in to much more detail showing you how to use the template system of Halogy. In under 10 minutes we take a static HTML build and create a dynamic website out of it. WARNING: This video carries a 'techy' warning!
Please make it easy to use!
Posted: 11th Mar 2009
At Haloweb we are obsessed with making things easy to use and keeping things simple. Right from the design and tidiness of our code through to the layout of forms and buttons. The web has to be easy to use and we need to be user focused and not 'techy' in our approach to building websites and applications. Halogy has been built with this in mind. If something doesn't make sense or is complicated, we'll scrap it and start again. Usability is a value of Haloweb.
New Permissions System on Halogy
Posted: 11th Mar 2009
We have finished building some amazing new features to Halogy. We are so excited about them and we are itching to create new screencasts to show the features in action. Halogy has grown ten fold over the last couple of months and not only that but the branding is coming along nicely (more to come on that later).
The features include a new permissions system, an events system and enhancements to the templating part of the CMS.
Jquery Date Picker
Posted: 9th Mar 2009
We have been looking around for a nice way of selecting dates in forms. You see them a lot when you go to flight comparison sites. Well we found one that is very cool and utilises the Jquery UI library. Funnily enough, it is called date picker - look out for it in our apps!
Select all checkboxes with JQuery
Posted: 6th Mar 2009
We have just built a cool 'select all checkboxes' function in JQuery and released the code. It is for administrators of Halogy to be able to simply grant permissions to their users at a category level, but if they want to they can open up the category and grant individual permissions.
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