http://www.openia.com hourly 1 2009-06-02T09:03:34Z http://www.openia.com/blogs/flash-ways-to-avoid-flash-tm We sometimes get a design brief that says 'homepage must have Flash' on it. 'Why?' we ask, pointing out that Flash is a proprietary technology that is excluding an increasing percentage of the browsing public, including all users of iPhones and iPads. If all you want is some animated text, it's time to explore the more accessible alternatives. No publisher wjg 2011-04-08T14:00:35Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/zimbra-virus-quarantine How to push a message through that triggered a false-positive on Zimbra's Virus detection No publisher rich 2011-03-10T11:08:07Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/migration-to-plone-4 How to upgrade to Plone 4 No publisher rich upgrade migration zope plone-4 plone 2011-02-18T10:17:58Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/when-ad-words-dont-add-up-to-much Pretty slogans and brochure-speak are not your best friends when trying to direct search engine traffic to your website. No publisher tina SEO search-engine-optimisation accessibility 2011-02-14T15:32:52Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/linux-corrupt-text-console What to do if your text mode console doesn't show the correct graphics mode and the text is unreadable. No publisher rich installation supermicro ubuntu graphics framebuffer corruption 2011-03-16T12:56:22Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/ioerror-decoder-jpeg-not-available Moving a Zope instance made Plone sites lose image thumbnail generation. Seemingly odd PIL behaviour. No publisher rich 2010-11-19T12:11:32Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/google-wave-is-dead-long-live-wave Is the end of Google Wave the end of a new kind of communication, or just the end of the beginning? No publisher rich 2010-09-07T13:42:59Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/intermediate-certificates The future of the Certificate Industry is one of increasing fragmentation, and we can no longer rely purely on the browsers to do all the hard work for us. What this means in practice is an extra step, and something called an Intermediate Certificate. No publisher wjg 2010-08-17T11:27:36Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/recovering-a-plone-site-that-you-cant-access Editing the ZODB via a python shell No publisher rich encoding python content management system zodb zope plone 2010-02-25T08:41:20Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/css-vs-sifr-vs-cufon No publisher wjg 2009-12-14T18:20:56Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/plone-vs-drupal-vs-joomla No publisher wjg drupal content management system joomla zope php plone 2009-09-22T16:25:51Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/errordocument-and-mod_rewrite-workaround The standard error messages that come with Apache can be very confusing for clients and visitors alike. Our most common error message, caused whenever a zope instance is taken down or restarted is 'Bad Gateway', which is about as user-unfriendly as an error message can get. No publisher wjg apache error page 2009-08-20T15:01:55Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/google-chrome-and-open-source Most people don't even know what an Operating System (OS) is - will they care about Chrome, even if it is Open Source? No publisher rich chrome google operating system web application 2009-08-19T16:04:59Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/step-back-move-on It is easily done and we're all guilty of it. Different professions, lead by the IT crowd..., often get too wrapped up in our mantra to delirium spurting out words and concepts that only their equally sad lot can respond to; but with little or no effect to the public at large. No publisher hayder clients psychology content management 2009-10-05T18:13:22Z Blog Entry http://www.openia.com/blogs/basic-resizeable-button You know how it goes. The client wants a totally slick designer webpage, and as ever that comes with the obligatory microscopic font and graphical everything. Sadly such designs fly right in the face of Accessibility requirements, so how do you marry the two? No publisher wjg accessibility buttons html resizing css 2009-06-02T16:20:02Z Blog Entry