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March 28, 2011 in Tips & Tricks by Snowbound Software

One of the things I’ve been surprised about as a designer is how easy it is to create a reasonably simple site in a short amount of time once you have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. Troubleshooting and making it work for various browsers is another article, but putting up a basic, static website isn’t too terribly difficult.

For me the hard part is the design. There’s always something more to add, another element to experiment with, a new widget or technology to implement or a new technique to try. As web designers, part of our nature is to explore new ideas, learn new technologies and create new, improved ways of representing data.

March 16, 2011 in Hot Technology, Tips & Tricks by Patty Morrison

“Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6. And neither should acquaintances.” This is a quote from Microsoft’s site, The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, www.theie6countdown.com, encouraging users of the decade-old browser, Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade to a modern browser. The website is striving to get worldwide use of IE6 down below 1%. According to the website, the IE6 use around the world is currently at 12%. It is 2.9% in the US. It is 35% in China.

Below are some statistics of the web browsers that visitors to snowbound.com use:

January 14, 2011 in Best Business Practices, Tips & Tricks by Patty Morrison

The key to most things in life is finding the right balance. There is usually a trade off that we have to make to find that balance. From dieting to managing your money, we all have to make sure that we find the right balance to maintain our weight and pay our bills. For example, the trick to dieting usually comes down to eating less and exercising more. To maintain a certain weight, you need to consume a certain number of calories a day. If you go over your caloric intake, unfortunately, the result is weight gain. The same is true for managing your money. We all have a budget that we have to work within. If you spend more money than you make, you end up in debt.

December 1, 2010 in Tips & Tricks by Snowbound Software

I’m fortunate enough to enjoy my work as a web designer with Snowbound Software and occasionally I’m called upon to showcase unique ways of marketing and providing value to our customers through web-based applications and demonstrations. Snowbound provides a wide variety of software applications to a number of industries including insurance, mortgage processing, banking, healthcare, and the federal government.

Marketing a product that provides useful functionality for so many applications can be challenging. As there are several CMS-type business solutions, like FileNet and SharePoint, in the marketplace, we wanted to provide a quick tutorial for providing useful proof of concept wireframes for our VirtualViewer product.

November 2, 2010 in Tips & Tricks by Gerry Gagne

For any of you who own, have evaluated or are thinking of evaluating any of Snowbound’s VirtualViewer .Net products, this small modification could save you many headaches. Let’s look at how to increase the pool thread limit in IIS 5. Although generally not recommended, it may be necessary to sometimes run one of our .Net Viewer applications from IIS 5 in Windows XP.

November 10, 2008 in CEO's Corner, Tips & Tricks by Chris

I’ve been getting a lot of questions on the new VirtualViewer AJAX web viewer since its recent release, and I wanted to talk a little bit about it and hopefully answer some of those questions.

Our Java Content Servlet-Applet viewer solution has been around for a long time now, and it has served its purpose very well. Its main strength is its speed through our Page on Demand™ approach, and has a rich functionality including annotation, page manipulation, bookmarking, and easy navigation. However, it still has the limitation of needing a JVM on the client in order to use the applet. While in many cases this is not a problem, companies have a need for a more streamlined approach, both for traditional internal users, and also for external users.

November 6, 2008 in Best Business Practices, CEO's Corner, Tips & Tricks by Sean

Many of the customers interested in our new AJAX viewer are looking to embed a viewer in an existing web page.  In this case, the traditional mechanism of specifying the document within the page URL may not be sufficient.  In this case, we have provided an alternative mechanism for specifying the document via JavaScript.

myFlexSnap.setDocumentId("insertDocumentIdHere");
myFlexSnap.init();

In this example, you simply replace insertDocumentIdHere with the documentId you want to load.  The call to the init() method will re-initialize the viewer and ensure that the image and thumbnails are reloaded.