BTW, the name, GCMS, is just a code name during the alpha version…actually i couldnt come up with any clever name, hence code name : GCMS :P, which stands for Ganesh’s Content Management System. I shall come up with a better name…hopefully soon!

It is something I did for fun and for learning more about PHP. I plan to update it daily(i mean weekly :P) the code is free for use under the GNU GPL. I hope you build upon it, test it and share your insights with me and others

Download Source Code of GCMS 0.1 Jan05/2010

For those who are not following…things’ll get clear as soon as the alpha version comes out…dont expect anything spectacular. It’ll contain some basic(basic is an understatement…downright skeletal would be appropriate) features. Its not intended for commercial purposes, its just something I am doing to try out my PHP skills. BTW did I mention it runs on PHP and uses MySQL database.

Stay tuned for more updates…and expect better posts in the recent future

The secret behind a good web design is that it makes sure that the content occupies the driving seat.  Sure there are beautiful graphic effects, photoshop tricks, fancy stuff to lure you, but as a designer you have to make sure that the design is not so overwhelming that it outshines the content. For a great design you need to make sure that you incorporate subtle effects to intact enhance the prominence of the content.

EyeOS is basically an operating system inside the web browser. It has all the basic desktop applications, and the files are hosted on their servers so they can be used from anywhere. The main drawback in this model is the limited control provided for browser applications to interact with the core processes. It is built mainly on PHP and javascript and a whole OS being developed from these languages will always have its limitations.  There exists an operating system, a browser and then eyeOS. The need for an operating system that works on cloud computing priciples and can interact with the core is aroused.

Enter Google Chrome. Chrome aims to solve these problems. It consists of(as speculated) a lightweight linux kernel and uses the chrome engine to browse. This model is far more suited because it eliminates the need of seperate operating system and a browser, it integrates them into one. The Chrome OS model promises to be more powerful and can more efficiently integrate the web with desktops.

What say?

There are many drawbacks of using images or Flash to render custom fonts. They make indexing the pages a nightmare(Google wont be able to find you easily )  and there are many accessibility issues. Typekit aims to sort these problems while maintaining the quality of design.

It works only on Firefox 3.5 or Safari since only these browsers support the @font-face.

I decided to play a bit with this little hack and made myself some hills using plain html and css.

You can view it here.

The CSS

#hill
{
float: left;
width: 250px;
margin: 0px;
font-size: 21px;
}
#hill a {
display: block;
width:0px;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;
border-bottom: 125px solid #fff;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
}
#hill ul{
margin: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0px;
}
.h1
{
background: #e3e147;
border-left: 300px solid #e3e147;
}
.h2
{
background: #47e3b5;
border-top: 125px solid #fff;
border-left: 300px solid #47e3b5;
}

.h3
{
border-left: 300px solid #47c0e3;
border-top: 125px solid #fff;
background: #47c0e3;
}

.h4
{
border-left: 300px solid #e34765;
border-top: 125px solid #fff;
background: #e34765;

}

The HTML

<div id = “hill”>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#” class= “h1″></a></li>
<li><a href=”http://ganeshiyer.net/about/” class= “h2″></a></li>
<li><a href=”http://ganeshnomicks.blogspot.com/” class= “h3″></a></li>
<li><a href=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ganeshiyer/rssfeed” class= “h4″></a></li>

</ul>
</div>

I’d love to see your results, post ‘em here.

Did you like the design? Or found a bug? Please post it in your comments.

What it means is that it takes away the burden from your processor and transfers it to the processors of the websites you are going to be using.This will be done by the means 0f your internet connection.  I dont expect it to be a fullon OS like Windows or Mac. I think its rather a going to provide a framework that’ll enhance our web experience.

What we need is better support for existing technologies to develop more kick ass web apps. We have already stretched AJAX, HTML and other web based technologies. Hopefully Google’s OS will help in imporving the potentials of these technologies.

Defining a class

A class provides a blue print for objects. It is, in simple terms, much like a datatype.  It contains properties and methods. Properties are the variables linked to a class and Methods are the functions.

A class is created by the following code

class Myclass
{
// properties
// methods
}

Thats it!

This class contains nothing but some comments. It wont do anything but all that is being done by us is defining the class.