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Vote for MyConferenceTime.com

Jun 9, 2009 Author: Chamara | Filed under: Web

Vote for MyConferenceTime.com as the oDesk Site of the Month Contest.

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both buyers and providers. Each of the websites included was built by oDesk providers in collaboration with their oDesk buyers.

MyConferenceTime.com allows teachers to post their available conference times online so that parents can instantly sign up for a meeting. Email confirmations are sent to the teacher and parent.

Don’t forget to put some comment as well.

Powder-Processing.co.uk Launched

Dec 10, 2008 Author: Chamara | Filed under: Web

Powder Process Design Services Ltd is an UK based design, manufacture and supply of powder processing solutions to serve the needs of companies in sectors like Industrial Minerals, Chemicals, Ceramics and Recycling.

When PPDS approached Minlo Technologies site was out dated and suffered from design as well as usability challenges. PPDS Founder, Nigel Thomas wanted this to be redesign in very short period of time and launch soon after that.

As a web development firm, Minlo’s responsibility was to develop a standard compliant website with information architect, graphic design, user interface design, implementing accessibility, usability, JavaScript development and finally cross browser compatible.

powder-Processing.co.uk new design
powder-Processing.co.uk new design

Process included in the redesign of the site

  • Scratching the user flows
  • Information Architect
  • Enhanced new User interface with user experience and graphic design
  • Initial build of the site
  • Loading content
  • Accessibility, Usability & Browser compatibility testing

Here is the URL of the PPDS, http://www.powder-Processing.co.uk/

Web Safe Fonts

Dec 7, 2008 Author: Chamara | Filed under: CSS, Web, XHTML

When using fonts on websites, font should display it’s all properties & styles on all or most web browsers which runs on different platforms like Windows, Mac or Linux. Unfortunately we don’t have much fonts which supported on all web browsers & platforms. So fonts which are working on all or most web browsers are called Web Safe Fonts.

So here are list of web safe fonts which I am using in my web design projects.

Arial

Arial
Arial
CSS code;

font-family:"Arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;

Georgia

Georgia
Georgia
CSS code;

font-family:"Georgia", serif;

Courier New

Courier New
Courier New
CSS code;

font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;

Trebuchet MS

Trebuchet MS
Trebuchet MS
CSS code;

font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-seri;

Lucida Console

Lucida Console
Lucida Console
CSS code;

font-family:"Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;

Verdana

Verdana
Verdana
CSS code;

font-family:"Verdana", Geneva, sans-serif;

Times New Roman

Times New Roman
Times New Roman
CSS code;

font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;

Lucida Sans Unicode

Lucida Sans Unicode
Lucida Sans Unicode
CSS code;

font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", Lucida Grande, sans-serif;

Tahoma

Tahoma
Tahoma
CSS code;

font-family:"Tahoma", Geneva, sans-serif;

Minlo Technologies
Minlo Technologies

Minlo Technologies, a small, dynamic design & development services firm based in Colombo, Sri Lanka has been featured in Web Hosting Search’s Designer Guide.

According to them,

This site actually talks to you, has great content, and decides if that web design company is appropriate to add.

So I am thrilled that the hard work is paying off.

I can recommend you to Web Hosting Search if you need a web hosting provider or something related.

Design Award 2008
Design Award 2008

WHS supports Minlo Technologies in their Designer Guide 2008. Check out WHS for more info on web hosting and designers.

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  • WAI has announced that WCAG 2.0 has moved to Proposed Recommendation. So now only one step away to becoming a W3C Recommendation and hopefully December it will be.

    Proposed Recommendation means is that the guidelines have reviewed by the community and also tested on real world websites. Now anyone can start using this even though it’s not official yet!


    In other news the mobileOK Basic Tests also moved into Proposed Recommendation. So home this will help to solve mobile web and web accessibility issues.

    More information on can be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/.

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  • [UPDATE - Tuesday, March 31, 2009] NethFM online stream replaced with their new stream link.

    [UPDATE - Wednesday, March 18, 2009] New Sri Lankan Online Community Radio, Sinha FM has been added. It’s on air from Doha, Qatar. Sinha FM is a none profitable on line radio for all our expats working in out side of our mother land..

    [UPDATE - Monday, July 2, 2007] I have removed Minsara Online Radio as I found they are using V FM live stream.

    [UPDATE] I have re-ordered and index the list by alphabetical order. Hope this will be much more readable than before.

    Here I am listing some good Sri Lankan Radio Stations and Music Portals with their online streaming feed. Remember some radio streaming feeds they providing are not valid, so in here I have tried my best to avoid those invalid feeds.

    Here goes the list;




    PS: If there are any corrections that need to be made in this list please let me know it as a comment, and also if you have new links to add to this send it via a comment.

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