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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.
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.
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
What our clients feel about us
Last month we at whynotonline.com were snowed under projects. I managed to publish the calendar module at the SilverStripe module directory. And we got a contract to build a website for the Sarvodaya the largest NGO at Sri Lanka, so all these things have been keeping us busy all the time.
While we were working on all these we recieved a good feed back for the newly created website which is also an implementation of the calendar module, so this is what we received.
We recently hired Whynotonline.com to do a development and design-job for our website. We needed a calendar-module, intended for our new Silverstripe-based website for our company. They did a very good job. Efficiently, precisely, focusing on our needs and spesifications, they delivered the product tailor-made for us, but at the same time generic, ready for others to use. They obviously are a very skillful, creative and highly competent webdesigners/-developers, and we do not hesitate in recommending their services.
Best regards
Øyvind
Thanks Øyvind for the very positive feeback.
Calendar Module for SilverStripe
We are proud to anounce that our very own silverstripe expert and chief designer Nivanka has been able to develop a complete module for the silverstripe CMS.
The silverstripe organization has accepted the module to their growing collection of modules and is now available at the SilverStripe Official Module Directory, click here for the demo website.
The module allows your silverstripe website to have a calendar as a web page enabling you to post activities, meetings, schedules or anything really, on a clear and easily understandable time line presenting your visitors the most important facilities "ease of use and clarity".
Nivanka has already implemented this module on a live website check it out.
We at whynotonline salute Nivanka's hard work and creativity, and are proud to have him at whynotonline.
Thank you Nivanka !
For the whynotonline team,
Dasun
40 website templates
Last Sunday (10/01/2009) Nivanka added the 40th template to the template portal.
It is called Bamboo. The template is named Bamboo as it has two bamboo turnks on its header, which makes it natural. The template can be used to any green project website.
We the team at whynotonline.com are really happy to announce about this template as we have done all these in some little time, and also we have seen that people are using our designs.
We are hoping to create more and more templates. Enjoy them.
Bilingual website development
We are proud to present to you a new plugin for the silverstripe CMS developed by our resident silverstripe expert Nivanka. This is a very useful plugin for developing web sites that have a broader potential viewing public, which is achieved through the use of more than one language.
Unlike other multilingual plugins out there this one is very very easy to use, and build websites with. This plugin allows you to switch between any two languages you prefer. For example you could have a combination of a global language like english,spanish,etc. for the target global audience and a local language like polish, hindi,sinhalese,etc. to cater to a local audience.
We are extremely proud and confident of this plugin and you will soon see our developments using this plugin. We hope that you too will be aided in your online efforts by this plugin.
This plugin is also available at the official silverstripe site :
http://www.silverstripe.com/extending-hacking-silverstripe-forum/flat/225382
Nivanka has done a great job!
Well done Nivanka,
Nivanka our main developer and founder of whynotonline.com did 8 widgets to the SilverStripe Open Source CMS this month. All of them are approved by the SilverStripe and now anyone can download them fromthe SilverStripe website
Also he spent his leisure time in the SilverStripe IRC and if he is not there, anyone can find him at nivanka.blogspot.com
We wish him all the success.
Keep it up!
SilverStripe Sinhala Translation
We are proud to mention that our most lovable CMS SilverStripe, has a Sinhala version now. Nivanka and Himali did a great job to translate it.
We are sure that after this translation we can server our local customers better than ever, as they can do anything to their website in Sinhala, you will feel that you are at home. We will take the hard part of your job, setting up the site coding HTML / CSS, customizing and all after that you can enjoy your website.
Contact us if you have any work which we can help you
Most promising open-source CMS 2008
SilverStripe Open Source CMS made it to the finals as the "most promising open-source CMS" at Packtpub CMS Awards.
We are really happy because we use SilverStripe to run our websites as well as for our projects.
Now we all can vote SilverStripe to help it to get into the top three.
I made my vote, click here if you didnt vote yet.
