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New release of the Select Decorator plugin
Today we released a new version of the Select Decorator plugin. The first release of the plugin didnt support Internet Explorer as the IE's transparencies for Select items are not working. In this new release we used a new approach to make it look the same on every browser. To be more techinical the plugin creates a list and populates the list items with the options in the respective select item.
We are really exited because the previous version of the plugin has been downloaded nearly a hundred times, which means that it is used a lot on different websites. You will find that the new release is even more usable as it is working very well with the widely used browser IE as well as other browsers such as firefox, opera, safari, etc.
Check the new release at our open source software portal
http://open.whynotonline.com/select-decorator-for-jquery/
Some news about the open source website, as the site is having a reasonable number of hits and the software modules are downloaded at good rates we are planning to add a Forum for the website. This will open a means of communication between you and the developers at whynotonline.com. We wish to talk more about SilverStripe and jQuery there. Stay tuned, we will update you on developments of the new forum on this blog.
Marcus Joins whynotonline.com
We are proud to announce that Marcus Doherty joins whynotonline.com to serve the company as the Business Development Manager for Europe and UK. His presence ensures whynotonline.com can better serve our European and UK based commercial customers, closing the gap between our operations in Sri Lanka, Europe and the United Kingdom.
We believe Marcus’s appointment will create and develop new business relationships – giving whynotonline the opportunity to penetrate new and exciting markets.
Adding Marcus’s years of content writing experience to our exiting services and expertise, means we are able to offer our clients a fully comprehensive and professional service. As of immediate effect we are broadening our services portfolio to include content writing, where we will skillfully transform your ideas into the written word. Good content isn’t only crucial to conveying your brand, corporate identity or message, but also helps you maintain good search rankings.
We at whynotonline.com warmly welcome Marcus, and wish him all the best in his new role.
Stay tuned we will be writing more on our blog.
Translation services
We are excited to announce that we will be adding a new service to our varied services list. We have developed some multi-lingual websites where the translation services were provided by a third party or the customers themselves. In order to make the development and integration process more efficient we have decided to add translation services to the services we provide. Therefore you will be able to get websites developed in many languages without having to worry about finding translators yourself. With our background in content management systems and our new translation service we will be able to provide you with high quality, standard compliant multi-lingual websites with elegant designs.
So if you are trying to build a multi-lingual web site talk to us.
Template count reaches 50
We are proud to announce that we have reached a count of half a century in templates at our free templates portal. During the last couple of months we have been very busy developing some challenging web based applications, but we have not forgotten the free services we offer and have been quietly adding to our collections.
Now the templates portal houses 50 elegant design templates free for you to use. We are also working on our open source commitments in SilverStripe open source CMS and jQuery javascript library. Check back with us for updates on the newest open source contributions by us.
We would like to hear from php developers
With the success we have achieved over the past few months, we were able to expand our client base, and lots of interesting projects are coming our way. We are really excited to mention this on our blog.
With this rapid growth of business we are looking to hear from PHP developers who are willing to create solutions for challenging projects which would make the world sing praises.
What we are expecting from you.
1. Expericence in web development
2. Experience in PHP and Object Orient Programming
3. Good knowledge of web 2.0 standards
4. Good communication skills
5. Willingness to work
6. Experience in ORM / MVC and CMSs such as SilverStripe, Wordpress, Drupal will be an added advantage
If you can meet the above requirements we'd love to talk to you.
Please send your CV to Nivanka (nivanka@whynotonline.com)
Applications from only those who are currently available in Colombo will be accepted.
We launched our open source website
From the start of the company we had something in mind, also we included it to our policies. It is that we use open source software for our developments. We saw a lot of advantages over using open source, and we believe that our clients are safe with those rather than any bespoke software we do. That doesnt mean that we do not make any bespoke software, we do them but we explain our clients what they can benifit from Open Source.
We have been working with SilverStirpe Open Source CMS from the begining of our company, and SilverStripe has been helping us to make websites and to grow our business. As open source is something more about freedom and sharing we have shared some of the codes we did with the SilverStripe community. They includes modules, widgets, and templates which are done using the designs we have at our template portal. All these peices of software are there on the SilverStripe website,
As the maintainers of these software we thought of launching a new website to give you more information and to alow you to downloand the latest builds etc. You are welcome to visit and download the software there. http://open.whynotonline.com.
Also the website is designed and coded my me (Nivanka) and Dasun is feeding the content to the website. We'd love to hear comments about the design, and the arrangement.
Follow us on twitter
This post is to let you know that from today onwards you can keep in contact with us via twitter.com. Though all of us here are having twitter accounts where we post our tweets we never thought about having one for the company. But after releasing the twitter module for SilverStripe Open Source CMS, we got the idea that we have to create and manage a twitter account.
We can now be really closer to our clients, and partners, as they can read what we are doing even by their mobile phones. At whynotonline.com we mostly work hard to manage good communication with our clients and partners. So here again we took another step forward in-order to achieve our goals.
So welcome to follow us on twitter, here is the URL http://twitter.com/whynotonline
NCEA Economics site launched
Today 21st of March 2009 we managed to go live with a new website, which is called NCEA Economics. The website is sponsored by whynotonline.com. We met the owner of the website Marcus Gibbs a High School Student from New Zealand, at the SilverStripe Forums, and we discussed with him about his ambitions / aims and after that we decided to sponsor Marcus with developing and designing his website for free.
His view is that to fill out the need of a proper website which can support any NCEA Economics student.This is how he described his idea in an email which I got from him,
"Economics is a difficult subject, like a new language it is at times confusing, frustrating and annoying."
That's where my website comes in, 'NCEA Economics' is designed specifically with the newcomer to Economics in mind. NCEA Level 1 Economics, NCEA Level 2 and NCEA Level 3 Economic newcomers will find this site resourceful, as 'NCEA Economics' is a website containing, everything needed to pass exams.
We the team at whynotonline.com wish you all the best with your new website.
Calendar module relaunched as the Diary Module
Dear all,You might have seen and used the Calendar Module which we did at Whynotonline.com, and published on the SilverStripe.org website. The name of the module has been creating some Naming conflicts with some other modules, So we at Whynotonline.com and Ingo from SilverStripe discussed about how to aviod this conflicts, and planned to use a very generic name for the module we did. Now you can find our module with a new name called the "Diary Module". Also we noticed that the module is now in the supported modules list, lately it was there in the unsupported list.
Though this is a new name, all the codes and the functionalities are still the same, and now we are planning to make this more useable. Here are some points which we have in mind to integrate to the module with the next release.
- To diplay the events for the hours of the days. (just like how google calendar works)
- To add member subscriptions to the module (where people can be informed about the new events)
- PDF or CSV generation (to get a PDF or a CVS file)
All of you are welcomed to use the form below to make your comments about the module, and as the name has changed now the URL of the module is also changed here is it http://silverstripe.org/diary-module/.
GREETS
Enjoy your Valentine's day
Dear all, We know a very special day is coming closer, yeah its the Valentine's day. At whynotonline.com we always think about how can we please our customers. So with that in mind we made some Valentine's wishes and posted them on our Greetings website. Try it out, wish your loved ones using our services, totally free :)
