ASafaWeb

Back in part 1 of Birth of a UX [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/09/birth-of-ux-asafaweb-gets-identity-part.html] I talked about identifying styles that I liked, the head start the default MVC 3 template gives you, the eternal battle of Photoshop first versus CSS first, CSS resets then actually making a start on styling one central element of ASafaWeb and making it all play nice across browsers. And that was it – phew! This time around it’s about debugging the markup, building the nav and then co...

With the private beta testing of ASafaWeb [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/09/building-safer-web-with-asafaweb.html] having gone quite nicely and a good whack of time then dedicated to both fixing stuff and implementing new features, it’s time to do something about this ugly duckling. I truly believe that the user experience is an absolutely fundamental factor in the success of a site and it really deserves some serious attention so rather than just hack it out, I’m going to approach it quite meth...

On Saturday morning I woke up to 120 emails from ASafaWeb [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/09/building-safer-web-with-asafaweb.html], not because it really likes me but because it was in pain! One thing I did very early on with the project was to implement elmah [http://code.google.com/p/elmah/] and make sure I get an email notification when anything happens that shouldn’t. It won’t stay this way (for reasons you’re about to see), but it’s a good way of keeping an eye anything that goes wrong very...

When I wrote about Building a safer web with ASafaWeb [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/09/building-safer-web-with-asafaweb.html] earlier in the week, I talked about using the process to share some experiences. This one made me go a bit cross-eyed and it’s a combination of an idiosyncrasy within ASP.NET routing and a more philosophical question about the semantic intent of a route. The situation was that I needed to construct a URL on the ASafaWeb website which contained the address of the site to...

In case it’s not already pretty obvious by now, there are a bunch of websites out there which have some rather glaringly large vulnerabilities in them. Or at least they did have, then they were hacked in spectacular fashion and security suddenly became important to them. But of course we only hear about the big ones whilst hoards of smaller attacks go by unreported and very often, unnoticed. The thing about web app security is that it can be a complex subject. It’s pretty fair to say that it’s...