I had 3 domains registered with them… until yesterday. Yesterday I transferred them to DreamHost (I use their one and only hosting plan) and will be paying $9.95 every year.

No more Yahoo! domains.

It looks very light, pop-ups are cool, colors are soft, icons are appealing, fonts are modern and sliding navigation is fun. I love this website! (not sure about the program the website is offering though — don’t have a Mac :-( )

I have tried both and I like Microsoft’s creation more.

When I first started making websites for fun I used now-extinct Microsoft FrontPage. I only used it as a WYSIWYG editor.

A lot of time passed since and we used then-Macromedia’s Dreamweaver MX 2004 at college. And I have been using it (newer versions though) since then.

Therefore I decided to try out the new, CS4 version. And I did not like it. Because Dreamweaver hasn’t changed much since version 8.

Yes, CS4′s interface is fancier and modern-dark and it offers different layouts for coders and designers. It is good, but this addition is not significant enough to make me migrate to the newer version.

Yes, there’s more interaction between HTML and CSS — you can, for instance, alt-click a tag and it will show the applied CSS styles. And you can click the style and it will open in the next window — convenient.

Then there’s much-advertised Live View which is said to be using WebKit as the rendering engine. I am not sure about it though — it renders pages like.no.other™. I mean, not like Safari (which also uses WebKit), Firefox or Internet Explorer. And I am used to open a real browser and test under it. That’s why this feature is completely useless for me.

The worst thing is its sluggishness. It is so-o-o sluggish, you won’t believe. The install or uninstall took more than 15 minutes for me. And deleting a line of code make the Windows show a hourglass cursor — which means you have to wait, even if it is for only a second or two. It takes a lot of time to start compared to version 8.

Tested it for a day and uninstalled.

The next turn was Microsoft’s Expression Web 2. It is not FrontPage anymore. Also has a dark interface (which you can change it in the options). You can also alt-click on a tag’s class and it will automatically open the CSS file and highlight the corresponding code. There’s a list of all the HTML tags used in CSS and clicking will highlight the code. Convenient. And not so sluggish as Dreamweaver CS4.

There are some cons of this program — it weighs much and it is integrated with the 2007 Office family (I am telling that because it uses some interface elements of Office 2007 and I couldn’t install it while I had my MSOcache folder remover (In case you don’t know — Office 2007 keeps it’s installation files there). So, I had to reinstall my whole Office in order to install Expression Web 2.)

But still — it is quite fast and more convenient than CS4.

PS. Damn, Expression Web 2 doesn’t have at least one feature that Dreamweaver has — it doesn’t show a list of special characters when you type an ampersand…

So, I now have two FFs — version 2 (still) being the default browser and FF3 for… fun.

(I also have IE 5.5/6.0/7.0, Safari 3, Opera 9.5 beta installed on my PC)

I was very sceptic about upgrating to a pre-release version of my favourite browser because I used every day with a lot of very important plug-ins. That’s why I had not upgrdaed until today when a release candidate became available to download.

After upgrading almost all of the plug-ins ceased to work, but after some manipulations and updates the most important ones are back on track.

So, people say it is faster than FF2 and consumes less memory? We’ll see.

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Oh no!

It is a quite big and interesting project. It took the programmer about a year to code the engine and multiple crawlers in Java. The programming part was mostly finished already in October last year when I joined the company and the project. There was a draft HMTL code was already there and my job was to create the final code.

Right now, the project is almost done. We’re just searching for bugs, testing, optimizing etc.

I tried to make the front-end code valid as much as possible. Indeed, the front page is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Other pages still contain some invalid XHTML code, because our programmer uses some tags/code snippets which are incompatible with XHTML.

Currently the search engine works well with all major bowsers including IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2 and 3, Opera 9, Safari 3. Of course, the most problems were caused by IE 6 (that’s why I hate it — it always causes problems) and I had to use some workarounds, which don’t look so beautiful.