As we enter a new year in a world of ever changing technology, GoWEB has made some code changes  to reflect the age.

• We’ve made the search box bigger
• Features are now loaded with AJAX technology
• The News section is now loaded with AJAX technology
• The Sports section is now loaded with AJAX technology
• Fixed a number of display bugs for Internet Explorer users

AJAX is a technology which allows you to amend the current page with more  data. The method we were using before loaded another page  inside the homepage, which was more overhead and did not update fast enough. Tis change was in the pipeline from last year, but it was not a simple task. We had to make sure the code in the sections to be imported into the homepage, was compatible with the code in the homepage itself. However, after an in-house beta trial, the new homepage is finally live.

Speaking of betas, we usually run a beta homepage alongside our regular homepage, where we  test out new code.  The latest code changes were so fundamental that we couldn’t run the  beta side by side with the public homepage. We had to revive the beta sub-domain (gowebnow.net/beta) to run the trial separately. We are going to leave this sub-domain open as the new beta channel, which you can check  for more code changes this year. As always we are looking at new features  which might  be beneficial to you. We will inform you when new features appear in the beta channel.

As we do some electronic “stock taking”, we’ve decided to publish some statistics for the month of September 2009.

These are the places people go to directly

The majority of users finding GoWEB in the Search Engines were searching for Minibuses or Bajan Words.

Most of our users are using these browsers. For best viewing, we recommend Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox

Most of our users were usig these screen resolutions. For best viewing we recommend 1024 x 768 or higher.

We want to thank all of our users and assure you that in addition to your feedback, we will be evaluating these statistics to see how we can better serve you. It is clear that the Bajan Dictionary and the Minibus Guide are our most popular services after the homepage. We have also been receiving some requests for additions to both services. You can therefore look forward to seeing additions and improvements to these services in the very near future.

Mario Herbert – GoWEB Administrator

Many people like applying themes to their desktop, but in the last decade, themes have come a very long way. More types of programs are coming with themes, and even webpages can be themed now. When you different theme-aware products and services, you an get a very pleasing and consistent overall user experience. Today, we’ll just give you some tips on how to mix themes on the web for a better browsing experience.

Let’s start with the program we use to gt on the web, the web browser. For this exercise we’ve chosen the Google Chrome web browser, which allows theming of just bout every element of the browser. We’re going to use the Yulia Brodskaya theme.

Next, we’re going to give our homepage a theme to match. Not all webpages support themes, but we’re using GoWEB Now as our homepage (of course) which comes with a number of themes for your personal taste. We’re going to use the Marble theme on our GoWEB homepage, which should blend nicely with the themes used on the browser.

After the homepage, the Email Inbox is probably one of the most used pages in our browser. If you have a theme-aware Email service, you can ad that into the theming mix as well. For this, we re going to use Gmail, which in our opinion is the most customizable email service when it comes to themes, (this also works with GoWEB Mail). We’re going to use the Turf theme for Gmail.

And there you have it. We’ve themed our browser, our homepage and our email inbox to match each other. What other services do you use which can be themed?

Get Google Chrome here

Get Google Chrome Themes here

Learn about GoWEB Now here

Learn about GoWEB Themes here

Learn how to make GoWEB your homepage here

Hi, all. We’re opening October with some new tweaks and more to GoWEB.

Firstly, we’ve tweaked the width of the site just a little. People viewing the site with a 1024×768 resolution screen will now see the entire width of the site without a horizontal scrollbar. This change takes effect across the entire website.

Secondly, we are pleased t o present our new YouTube Channel.

Not only is the YouTube channel redesigned but we’ve started producing some new videos in a “Discover GoWEB” section. We will be producing more helpful videos and restructuring the type of content overall on this channel.

These new videos have allowed us to open our “Discover” tab on the homepage. Just look in the Featured Content box and click “Discover”.

This is just the beginning. Keep your eyes and ears open as the year progresses and we strive to serve you better.