Hong Kong Adobe Flash platform developer (Flex, AIR and Flash)
Web Usability
Google 同 Yahoo! improve Flash indexing
Jul 1st
今日 Google o係 webmaster central blog 公布左佢地已經 improve 左 Flash content 既 indexing power 所有 version 既 Flash content o係唔需要改動既情況底下都可以得到更好既 indexing result
同一時間 Adobe 亦o係 Adobe Developer Center 發表左 SWF searchability FAQ 裡面除左有耳熟能詳既 marketing slogan 之外
The openly published SWF specification describes the file format used to deliver rich applications and interactive content via Adobe Flash Player, which is installed on more than 98 percent of Internet-connected computers
亦有提及到背後既原理 以及 Yahoo! 都會於稍後 update search engine
的確~ 咁多年以黎 Flash 都比人彈 SEO 每一次我幫人做 project analysis 既時候 第一句都係問 “application base” 定 “content base” 今次呢個 news 的確幾吸引~ 但係問題係唔係就咁就解決呢?!?! 我地係唔係唔再需要寫特登寫 XHTML version / XSL / 一大堆 supportive More >
點先算係一份好既 FYP?
Aug 17th
呢幾日睇左好多 Final Year Project~ 發現左一 d 臥”獅”藏”蛇” (臥虎藏龍)… 有 d 平時唔顯眼既人寫 d FYP 真係勁到嚇親你~
睇左大家既 project 自己都學左唔少野~ 諗返轉頭~ 點解 Final Year Project 既 presentation session 唔可以做到好似一個 conference 咁? 大家一齊睇人 present~ 大家一齊比 comments~ 甚至黎個公投~ 咁樣相信大家o係 FYP 學到既野可以多好多倍~
自己係一個 Web Application Developer~ 對於 Algorithm-based 既 FYP 我只可以講句 “勁” 但係望住一大堆只係為左滿足某一個 specific purpose 既 form-based application… 我覺得好無奈… 幾十甚至幾百頁 HTML 加 d Javascript 加個 database… 算 FYP 嗎? 我會覺得佢的確出左好多力… 但方向錯左…
Innovation 對一個 FYP 黎講好重要~ 但我著眼點係有無用過心黎做而唔係交行貨~ 其實就算係一張 form~ 真係用心寫既都一定贏一個得個做字既 system~
有 d student 係好用心機 design form 的~ Real time feedback… Auto complete… Dynamic combo box content loading… etc…
就算平時我覺得小豬唔係 programming More >
Alternate Style Sheets
Nov 30th
When we designing our web site style, have we think about whether others like our style? I guess it is not possible making a style which suits everyone’s taste. So why not letting the visitor selecting his own style? That is why Alternate Style Sheets become an important function in a web site.
The idea of alternate style sheet is that we will first prepare a few different style sheets to be the alternate. And then providing a drop down box within the web page allowing the user to choose the style he / she likes. And the preferences are stored More >
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS)
Nov 23rd
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is widely used when developing a web page. It can be used in both layout and styling. However it is meaningless for the blinds. So are there any styles for the blinds?
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) is the answer. Actually ACSS is not a new technology. It can be viewed as an add-on to the original CSS. The following are the commands supported by ACSS.
voice-family speech-rate pitch pitch-range stress richness
By means of these commands, the speech produced by the disables assisting browsers like JAWS that I previously mentioned can be “styled”.
For example the following will make More >
Blog Talk 2 – How to Implement Consistent Framework
Nov 15th
I think all of you have done the redesign assignment already and starting to write the report. When you are redesigning the web, I think most of you may have faced a certain problem in mind that is how to make all the pages consistent? As all the pages will have the same html opening tags, meta tags, linking of the style sheets, header navigation bar and the footer copyright declaration part. If I simply copy and paste it to every page, it is time consuming and not easy to maintain in the future. So I want to introduce a More >
GoogleRankings
Nov 4th
I am sure many classmates are still trying their best to reach Google.
Here is another tool which I explored and it is quite useful. It is the GoogleRankings.
Although it is called GoogleRankings, it is not only focusing on Google. Actually it is a web application which can acheive the following.
1. Analyse the web given whether it has a well written source code. e.g. Has it used the TITLE tag, META description tag, META keyword tag, etc.
2. Analyse the web content, and resulting the most frequently used words within the content. (It will automatically skip the “stop” words)
3. Having a search More >
Google Sitemaps (Beta)
Oct 27th
I guess everyone already trying Andy’s CityU Web Hacker event. Usually what we can do will be simply using meta tag or submitting to those web engines. However, can we be even more active to direct the search engine to crawl our site?
Google Sitemaps (Beta) is a brand new technology from Google which allows web administrators to guide Google how to crawl our web!
The logic is very simple and worth to try! First you must own a Google account (e.g. gmail), login to the system. And then submit your web’s sitemap using XML format. The format of the XML file More >
Check Your Links~~!!
Oct 12th
Browsing around the web and found some old statistics from Search Engine Showdown. It is a short report about the dead links found in the famous search engines. You can have a look at here. Although the report is a few years ago already, it is still quite shocking. On average there is around 5% of dead links!
Dead links are really disgusting sometimes. For example, when you want to find a certain information on the web. After finding a few hours, you hardly got a link. However, it is dead… I am sure it is a disaster.
The presence of dead More >
Blog Talk 1 – Color
Oct 5th
Within the area of web usability, one of the important part sure will be color matching.
First lets see an example here.
Hayden Video Weddings
If you really need some wedding service, I am sure you will not trust this one… Because if you dont look at the details, you will never know this is a wedding service… Even you want to see the text is very difficult. So sometimes color matching is even more important than the web content.
Lets see another example.
Beyond the Bones (Bad Example)
Actually this is a web done by an author who want to show the bad example only. More >
