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Web Stress Tool
Jun 14th
Today I have been trying to web stress my development website using ACT from Microsoft. I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional, and while taking a look to find this precious tool that was readily available in the previous version VS.NET 2003. I couldn’t find it. (uh!!! did i forget to install it ???? ) checked out but nothing done, checked on the web and reach a forum post which said. Application Test Center is no more available on VS.NET 2005, you can buy a new licence of VS.NET Team tester to to be able to use some stress tool. Ok how nice 
marketing strategy…
Anyway, i have been wandering around the web to find a proper web stress/load tool to be able to test my web developments. results have been pretty deceiving… could not find a proper tool for testing ASP.NET Websites. After some time i came up on sourceforge. to find this tool : WEBLOAD (Open source performance testing) which is the open source version of the recognised Radview Webload.
I’ll be now trying this tool and then give some feedback soon after.
BUG: Error message when you visit a Web page or interact with a Web application in Internet Explorer: “Operation aborted”
May 29th
Here is a bug that i came to recently while working with:
var d = document.createElement(“div”);
document.body.appendChild(d);
This bug is only on IE and it’s really annoying one. There is a fix provided by Microsoft, you can take a look at it here.
It is a pretty comprehensive and complete article but there is one thing missing in there. The state that the problem is caused
This problem occurs because a child container HTML element contains script code that tries to modify the parent container element of the child container. The script code tries to modify the parent container element by using either the innerHTML method or the appendChild method.
The solution is
To work around this problem, write script blocks that only modify closed containers or that only modify the script’s immediate container element. To do this, you can use a placeholder to close the target container, or you can move the script block into the container that you want to modify.
That’s a pretty good solution, but what if i don’t want to do that, or can’t handle a code that would generate something like that in the body, e.g When developing in ASP.NET using Master Pages. You must develop some specific module to have a handle in the master page body to be able to call your javascript in the body text itself.
Here is a quick fix that works pretty fine and easy to implement.
In your Page where you want to call the javascript create a DIV element in the body/content ( <div id=”ie_fix”></div> )
With this done you can now modify your javascript to be like that:
var d = document.createElement(“div”);
if(is_ie) //This is a browser check have to code here.
{
var ie_fix = document.getElementById(“ie_fix”);
ie_fix.appendChild(d)
}else
document.body.appendChild(d);
This is a quick fix that should help you waste/avoid unnecessary recoding. This has been Tested on IE 7 – Running on Windows Vista.
Vinivi.com – Unbiased hotel reviews by travelers
May 20th
vinivi.com – a place on the web where the traveler can find real reviews by real travelers.
yes, vinivi.com – this is where i have been working for the last year.
This is the first part of the home page where you can clearly figure out, what the whole website is about… “hotel reviews” by travelers… blocks just below the navigation bar shows out the different services that the website propose to the user.
Share – Writing reviews to post out to other travelers how your stay/travel was to a particular destination and to recommend or not a place to stay.
Discover – The growing community of vinivi, will enable you to discover where other travelers have been what they liked and what they did not. You will also see travelers travel photos during their stay, either bad or good experience.
Find Out – Find out reviews of hotels around the world with a database of 30,000 hotels, guest houses and growing. Our teams works out for you to get the most information about the hotels and/or guest houses that you have been staying.
After this brief introduction, now come the fun part that i have been working on lately.
This part of the home page displays the most popular destination of travelers all around the world. Where they really go… The map on the right displays markers red (needs improvement), orange (average), green (excellent) that represents hotels and guest houses in the specified region of the globe.
You can do so much nice things with maps nowadays… YOUPIII to Google maps… 
even though it was kinda some headache to get it working, but it is now online and going all fine.
You can try it out and see the different top travelers destination… see in action at vinivi.com.
Next comes the community part of the home page.
Photos by travelers – see random travelers photos that have been recently posted on vinivi, by travelers that have added a review on a hotel or guest house.
Thumbs up or thumbs down ? – What will it be… see a random average/bad and good review on the home page each time you enter vinivi.
Monthly Competition - yes you heard right Monthly competition, each time you write a review or send email to your friends to talk about vinivi, you get selected to take part in a monthly draw to get a fabulous week in a luxurious hotel in Mauritius. See the details of how to participate on vinivi competition page.
Next section are the latest reviews on vinivi.
Displaying the continuous and quality reviews that are reaching the our website the latest review section post out reviews coming from travelers all round the world talking about how there journey were in the hotels or guest houses that they stayed in.
To supplement the latest review section, see our team
They read and validate your reviews everyday, taking time to ask for questions or more information whenever necessary to be able to post of the most out of your review on our website.
This ends the home page section vinivi.com
My next post will be on the type of content in vinivi.com
I am still alive….
May 20th
Yes….
I am still alive…. after so much time without a post, where have i been.. of course in front of my Workstation… working… but now, i have decided to show you guys what i have been doing so far…
The next post will be a pretty comprehensive one, about the work that has been done on vinivi.com
Long time no post…
Feb 27th
Hello there… It’s been a while since i last got some minutes to post something here. Unfortunatly there has been a lot of work on Vinivi lately. And this took much of my time. Lately i got some time to work on a new version of wacdesigns with a completely new design that i imagined. I will post the first version of the layout that i imagined tonight to that i can get some feedback on anyone passing by my weblog and seeing the post. till then bye.
Just been LinkedIn
Nov 21st
Small post on LinkedIn. I have now created my profile there, and we’ll see how it evolves…
Some very busy days
Nov 16th
Long time no post… 
yes i know, it’s been a while since i last posted something up. But work has been taking up a lot of my time lately, no much time available to post something on the blog…
Just to sum up what i have been doing lately…
Working on AJAX, creating a module to simulate Google Suggest
Reading a lot on AJAX
Got the book Head First Design Patterns and reading it everyday… ( I will make a new post on this book when i am finish, it a great book)
Also implemented an RSS generator module
No need to say that all these are based upon ASP.NET
Till i get some more time to post some new stuff, hold on.
And just for you not to get in too depressed about this post, that relates about 1 month of what i have been doing, here where i relax every weekend…
Checklist for Search Engine Optimization(SEO)
Oct 12th
From webopedia
Short for search engine optimization, the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site.
There are must be more than thousands of checklist for SEO on the web. I have been involved in some SEO lately and would like to share this experience. This is a quick list that will make sure that you climb up your page rank with Search Engine you will most likely go to be on the first page of Google.
I’ll take the example of some website who produces and sells boat models.
- Make sure that the pages are well planned and consistent
- Make use of well structured sentences that always reflect what user might type in to get to your website
- Do not spam your pages with keywords
- Do not put too much content on a page, because users won’t read them all.
- If you have a page for displaying for e.g a boat model “The Bounty” make sure that you mention “The Bounty”
as much as you can on the page. e.g The heading of the page, the link to historical background to the boat, in the description of the model itself. This will will help you gain evidence that this page is related to “The Bounty”
- Get backlinked whenever possible
- Each time your backlinked, that is another website if pointing on yours, you get some influence on the search engine. You should make sure that you “buzz” your website as much as possible. Try forums and so on.
- Make sure that the website your backlinked to is related to your bussiness background. E.g your won’t post your link on a Computer Programming Forum, this does not make anysense. Taking the e.g of the boat models website what could make sense are some souvenir website or even collectioners website to get backlinked from.
- Make extensive use of metatags keywords, description, abstract
- These are very important make sure that you include these on everypage that you want to be referenced by the search engine
- Also make sure that these reflects the content of your page. do not use keywords that are not even found in your page, this will not make any sense and the search engine bot might just ignore it. e.g if you have “boat, model, miniature, ship, bounty” in your keyword meta tag. Make sure that these keywords are mentioned in your page content.
- Make use of URL Rewritting
- Using URL Rewritting will be very benefit to your website. This will boost up your website referencing. Take for example of bussiness of boat models. If i have a decriptive page of my boat model the page URL should be something like that www.boatmodel.com/The_Bounty_Model.html instead of something like that www.boatmodel.com/Product.php?p=10223
- These URL will help your website gain in web rank. As for meta tags the keywords in those user friendly URL should also be present in your page content.
- The most and not the least make your website comfortable and easy to use.
- This is only a small talk about website usability, Your website should be as simple as possible depending on what is your audience. you should put in mind that not everyone is as expert as your developer. normal people don’t know that they must double click on some menu for something to happen of you should drag and drop some stuff in your browser for some other things to happen. Thus first place emphasis on the usability of your website, to make sure that when a user comes once, he/she will always want to be back some other time, because the website is very friendly and make me want to be back
This is a little of what i have learned for SEO. Hope that this can be of help.
second employee at the office
Oct 10th
yesterday, the second employee of the company started, she will be helping me out in the development and maintenance of the website. i’ll have to show her everything about the web site architecture how it works and how to make modification, once this done serious work can start for both of us… the planning is simple…
RSS
Ajax
Google Maps
Technologies that are changing the web
