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Building a Search Engine

Recently I have been thinking about adding search functionality to my web site and I did so on the 20th June. Search is a very important function for any web sites to help the user find the document they are looking for possible.

You may think that this is not important in a world with Google. This comment is half true. The Google search results are only helpful if Google can find all of the content on your web site and hence create the index. You can aid this my create and XML Sitemap for the content on your site.

22-Jun-08 | Matthew Wittering | Read More >>

SproutCore, Flash or Silverlight for the iPhone

At the end of WWDC Apple announced that they would support Flash like applications and experiences using the open source Javascript frame work, SproutCore.

This is an extremely interesting idea because to bring the Cocoa like interface enjoyed by Apple users into the web browser.

19-Jun-08 | Matthew Wittering | Read More >>

Hotel Angela

Hotel Angela is third and final hotel of the set. The web site is very different in style to Hotel Florida Spa and Hotel Yaramar with the powerful red and bold font.

Hotel Angela follow the same three column layout as the other hotels.

This build was the simplest of the three because navigation did not include specialist pages such as events on Hotel Yaramar and the spa page on Hotel Florida.

This provided more room to space out the tabs on the primary navigation which runs horizontally a below the title and logo. I feel this navigation is more comfortable to use than the two previous menus despite the very strong and possible garish combination of colours.

To see the site browse the link to http://www.hotel-angela.com.

12-Jun-08 | Matthew Wittering

Hotel Yaramar

As I have previously written I have explained while working at Andalucia Web Solutions that I coded the xhtml and css for the Hotel Florida Spa site.

At the beginning June we completed and push live Hotel Yaramar and Angela.

Hotel Yaramar followed the same design layout which was established during the design and build of Hotel Florida Spa. The idea of this web site was to develop the a Hotel Yaramar version using the blues present in the Hotels decoration and existing print media.

As the basis of this site is used the Hotel Florida Spa web site removing old content and then updating the colours and images to convert the templates.

Hotel Yaramar is my favourite of the three web sites because of the soft calm colours and the easy to read font used in the imagery.

To see the site follow the link to http://www.hotelyaramar.es.

12-Jun-08 | Matthew Wittering

New Google Favicon

Ok so I think that I spotted about two weeks ago that Google had updated the Favicon on the domain.

I found this blog entry on the Official Google Blog. The post was by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products and User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web Designer.

08-Jun-08 | Matthew Wittering | Read More >>