Connecticut Community Foundation Custom Programming
LionLeaf recently finished building a large web application called e4score. We were responsible for all aspects of the site development except for the graphic design. The web site aggreagates large amounts of United States government data related to truckload carriers and provides shippers with access to this information. Transportation service providers are able to maintain their profiles while shippers are able to search the database of carriers to discover the best carriers for their shipping needs. The site is e-commerce enabled and provides a wide array of functioanlity for both transportation service providers and shippers.
e4score Web Application
LionLeaf has launched a new web site for our BravoCart e-commerce solution. The web site allows for purchasing a shopping cart and within seconds having a fully functioning solution. The solution even allows people to selecting a custom domain to use.
LionLeaf has launched a web site for Connecticut Business Alliance, Inc. The non-profit organization is a networking group of approximately 20 business people from Wallingford and the surrounding areas. The group meets every Wednesday morning to exchange referrals. LionLeaf is a founding member of this networking group. If you are interested in learning more about the group please feel free to contact us.
One of the most important components of any search engine marketing campaign for your web site is monitoring your progress. If you visit your own web site often then you may be skewing your results. Google Analytics allows you to add an exclusion to prevent Google from counting hits that result from certain sources. To add an exclusion you must first determine your IP address. The following steps can be performed to configure an exclusion.
Crates LLC is a supplier of custom crating. Based in Wallingford, Connecticut the company offers quality crates at reasonable prices. LionLeaf, LLC created a new logo and web site for Crates LLC.
http://www.cratesllc.com
LionLeaf, LLC is pleased to announce the availability of a demo version of our Flash e-commerce solution. A fully functioning demo is currently available on the LionLeaf, LLC web site.
Tamarack Medical Systems, LLC is a technology solutions company specializing in providing electronic medical record software to medical offices. They also offer a full range of IT support services that are geared towards medical offices as well. The company recently hired LionLeaf to revamp their existing web site.
http://www.tamarackmedsys.com
We recently changed our name from Connected IT Solutions, LLC to LionLeaf, LLC. Why did we do this? Well, essentially the Connected IT Solutions, LLC name had many problems:
1. Connected IT Solutions was long. Nobody wrote it out and it essentially contained an acronym within an acronym.
2. The IT in solutions sometimes became “it” for people who didn’t know that it stood for Information Technology.
3. Being in Connecticut many people remembered us as being Connecticut IT Solutions.
4. For those who understood that IT stood for Information Technology they associated us with computer networking rather than web design.
After a few months of bouncing ideas back and forth we decided our new name would be LionLeaf, LLC. We also chose a tagline of Tame the Web and embarked on a rebranding project. Please rest assured that we are merely rebranding ourselves. The people and technology behind the scenes have not changed and our goal is really to just provide a more accurate and compelling image of who we are.
Two weeks ago, I started to experience some issues with my Flash plugin in IE7. Some sites that previously detected my plugin correctly, were now reporting that I had the incorrect version of the plugin installed. Every time I went to Adobe’s Flash site to install the plugin, it would tell me I had the most recent version installed. I performed a number of uninstalls and reinstalls, to no avail. I scoured the web for other people who were having the same problem. It appears that there are a lot of people having similar issues! There were even some very detailed fixes posted on some of the sites that I found. I tried them all.
Most people would say, “why not just use FireFox as your browser?” Well, I use IE7, FF3, and Safari for Windows on a regular basis to test client projects and ensure browser compatibility. So it was not acceptable that the browser that still holds the biggest share of the market was not working for me. But I couldn’t find a solution.
Last night, I found an obscure article, that had nothing to do with Flash, but did mention some weird behavior in IE7 under a very particular condition. That particular condition was, the user-agent string reported by the browser to servers being longer than 260 characters. After I read that, I did a quick check on my browser user-agent string, and found it to be approaching 300 characters! It seems with the addition of some other plugins and software to my machine a few weeks ago, I pushed myself over this obscure and rarely documented threshhold.
To fix this problem, I had to edit my registry, and remove some of the things that IE7 was reporting back in my user-agent. While I offer this as the solution that worked for me, I note that editing your registry can be a risky endeavor, and should not be taken lightly. Make sure you set a restore point for your machine before you touch your registry.
The list of values that are reported in the user-agent can be found in the following location in your registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|SOFTWARE|Microsoft|CurrentVersion|Inernet Settings|5.0|User Agent|Post Platform
I removed a few of the values there (right click, chose “delete”) and restarted my browser. Voila! Problem solved!