October 2008 Entries

New Blog Engine

ubeeTech has sent a vast amount of time researching various blog engines to replace our existing bloggin engine. We have finally made a decision and picked SubText, the successor to the popular .Text blogging engine. So stay tuned for more blogs daily.

Sitecore v6

All i have to say is Sitecore Version 6 is even better then the previous. I've been using Sitecore now since version 4 and version 6 is just another great product. Not only is it faster to use but also to develop, the current ubeeTech site is build on version 6. Some things to note about version 6: Improved UI Faster response times about 400% Improved Security using the .net 2.0 security Fewer databases (which is a good thing i think) Improvements...

High Contrast

Ever had the problem of having to build a site that needs to work in all aspects. Most people forget about the high contrast mode for accessibility types. High contrast is actually very simple to work out but in a small amount of code, but finding this took me a few hours of painful thinking as well as research. Well better get back to it it's simple just detect if a background image is found on an element, simple well here is just a snippet of code which should help you out. function highContrastMode() { var header = document.getElementById("header"); if (header != null && (header.currentStyle.backgroundImage ==...