Leaving BlogSpot

Hi All ..!

I have moved to a new space at in my domain http://dsmrk.com/

It is blogspot where I started my first writing online and I have one more blog other than Technical Tales here with blogspot at Rain Drops I have done a total of nearly 100 posts here in blogspot. I had a good time writing in here.

Let me hold and gain more momentum to write there in my new blog

Cheers and Best Wishes to Blogger

Love,
Ranjith

TypePad Exceeeeeds Customer Expectations ..!

That was a nice offer for the TypePad users from the company ..!

We at Six Apart understand that you pay for TypePad and expect to receive superior performance in return. At times over the last several weeks, we have not provided that type of experience. We also know that some customers have been more heavily impacted than others. Therefore, we want to give you the choice of how Six Apart should compensate you for any inconvenience we have caused.

	While the performance issues caused me some inconvenience I mainly found the service acceptable last month. Give me 15 free days of TypePad.
	The performance issues made it very difficult for me to use the service on multiple occasions during the month. Give me 30 free days of TypePad.
	The performance issues affected me greatly, making my experience unacceptable for most of the month. Give me 45 free days of TypePad.
	I really wasn’t affected at all and feel I got the great service I paid for last month. Thank you for your offer, but please don't credit my account.

We’d also love to hear any feedback from you about your recent experience with TypePad, and what we could have done to better communicate the situation and what we were doing to fix it.

The customers of TypePad will be more happy and motivated to use their service.

Cheers !!!
Ranjith

Ajax-S - Presentation

Ajax-S is a pretty cool presentation built on the same lines of the S5 Presentation. This presentor as against the S5 uses simple xml files at the back end for the data holding and a xslt parser driven by javascript at the front end. Supports the necessary fileds like

• Page Title
  
• Heading
• Sub Heading
  
• List - ordered
• Paragraph
  
• Text Formatting and
  
• images also
  

with the help of simple xml tags.

Robert says :

The idea came to me because I wanted a lightweight slideshow based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but I also wanted to separate the data of each page from the actual code that presents it. Therefore, I decided to move the data into an XML file and then use AJAX to retrieve it. The name AJAX-S is short for AJAX-Slides (or AsynchronousJavaScript and XML Slides, if you want to).

Naturally, one of my inspirations for creating a HTML-based slideshow are from Eric Meyer and his S5. However, I wanted to take it one notch further, to make it more flexible and also usable for people with no HTML knowledge whatsoever. Another motivating factor was to just transform the data for the current page, as opposed to creating all the HTML needed for all the pages when the page is initially loaded. A leaner end user experience, basically.

It only works in IE 6 and Mozilla-based web browsers as of now. This is because of the need to do on the fly transformations on the client, which means the necessary support forActiveXObject or XSLTProcessor has to be there.

• Download Ajax-S
• See a demo presentation

Top Ten Design Mistakes - Web

What is required when you design your web pages. Following are some ten mistakes which needs to be fixed to have you site recognised. Me to have to work on them to make sure I am little perfect.

1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don't Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

Check out for the complete article at the website - useit

Cheers - Ranjith

On line Word Processor

World is moving more to the web. In the upcoming days one must be able to work on a OS - Browser.

Zoho Writer - On the same line is an alternative for the word, an online tool to write, edit documents. It can do much more than the word bound to the OS. On its way to collabration, it provides sharing of documents with permissions.

Try writing your documents online and collabrate with your friends.

Make life simpler on the Web.

Cheers
Ranjith