Jersey.com is live!
So here’s my first thoughts:1. Site is still suffering from validation problems.2. Sharepoint authentication and sessions creation is causing around a 30 second load on initial page load. In some instances, the request is timing out.3. The text size feature crashes IE6, and breaks the page layout on other browsers.4. The site is vulnerable to SQL injection.
Slingmedia magic
I’ve had 2 weeks of fiddling with my home network to get this wretched Sling Box working. The Sling Box takes your TV feed, bungs it out over the ‘net where it can be consumed when you’re on holiday or upstairs on the laptop. Very cool, but … what a nightmare.Amazingly, the Sling Box doesn’t have built in WLAN so you need to set-up a wireless bridge with an ethernet connection. I’ve tried the boxes I had lying round, the Apple Airport express, a Belkin base station which I tried to turn into a bridge, a D-link bridge that would bridge but not to ethernet, and finally a Belkin bridge with ethernet connection, which worked. Now, I’ve got an admittedly complex home network (apple wlan, and a PC wlan on different subnets), but this was an absolute mission, and I’m left wondering how anyone other than a network engineer could manage it.But what about the Sling box, well it works, it’s a bit glitchy, and jerky, but perfectly watchable, and with a full Sky remote, it’s v. impressive. £100 and no monthly, it’s a must buy.
Jersey.com
Is now password protected. Very wise, I wouldn’t want unauthorised reviews prior to launch either.
9 months and £250,000 later …
Here’s a sneak preview of the Jersey.com portal. Followers of this blog will note my prior interest.http://www2.jersey.com/English/Pages/default.aspxThe site’s not live yet, but seems to be a simple reskin of the previous site with no significant increase in functionality.I do hope they get the validation sorted, at the time of writing there were 42 errors. Oh, and it looks like its using MS Sharepoint, which helps explains the W3C problems.
Google and Yahoo win for Duke of Normandie
Mark Evans at Webreality SEO is delighted with the recent SEO work he has carried out for the Duke of Normandie in Guernsey.When Webreality created the site, the Duke had zero search engine visibility. After two months of Mark’s efforts, the Duke is now page 2 on Google for ‘hotels in Guernsey’, and page 1, position 1, on yahoo.co.uk.