Mark Ireland's Blog - design

Drag and drop between browsers

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:07:00 -0500

I found Leslie Michael Orchard informative on HTML5 drag and drop. If you open it in two (Firefox 3.6.8) browsers you can drag and drop between them. This could be useful in a Content Management System. I made a simple copy to demo the idea. QuirksMode was very critical of the HTML5 drag and drop specification

HTML5 tags and comparing one CMS to another

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:43:00 -0500

I have made a simple page to show some new HTM5 tags that I hope will be useful when comparing one CMS to another. These can set the definition of section, article etc so we can talk sensibly when discussing different approaches to content management.

less popular pages

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:19:00 -0500

I wrote a very simple CMS (for a university) that was designed to draw traffic to the less popular pages. Users could enter keywords and create categories that their content belonged in. An autocomplete search showed visitors that some keywords were not available. The more popular the category the more clicks it took to drill down to the content. Keywords distinguished one page from another while categories grouped them together. The category would not appear until at least two content items belonged to it. This worked because there were not a very large number of content items. Approximately 20 subcategories in 20 categories was about right in this case

Mark Ireland's Blog - design

Drag and drop between browsers

HTML5 tags and comparing one CMS to another

Tagcloud example using Flash SWFObject

less popular pages