September 2008 Archives
The hyperlinks are probably the most powerful elements of the entire World Wide Web environment. Links are the glue that connects the Web sites together building a Web of documents, software and information. The hyperlinks are so powerful, important and valuable that they often have a price tag, depending on the location, position, relevance and type.
September 2008
Few years back 800x600 ruled, but not anymore. Screen displays have grown bigger in the past years. Seventeen and nineteen inches are probably the norm today for desktop computers and fifteen-sixteen inches for laptops.
September 2008
Building the Internet on standards rather than certain technology was a good move and has been the foundation on how it has evolved in the past two decades. There are Web standards for how data transfers between computers such as TCP, HTTP and FTP. These are the standards that are not at the top of Web designer's and Web site owner's mind, but there are standards that Web designers and Web site owners should pay close attention to.
September 2008
The Web sites of today are of many forms, look, design, structure and functionality. The most common Web pages have graphics, navigational links, banners and textual or multimedia content. It is also common that Web sites contain thousands of pages with textual content such as articles and blog posts. It is also very common that such Web sites use SQL databases for data storage with HTML front end.
September 2008
The good old HTML table tag has been with us for a long time. Web designers use it for layout and tabular data. It is reliable; it is easy to get it working in all browsers and for those that want structure and order in their code the table tag is their best friend. There is another option available for Web designers that can do everything a table does and more: the DIV tag.
September 2008
We hope you bear with us the constant reflection on the Web few years back. Few years back JavaScript was not highly regarded as a programming language. Mainly seen as a way to blink HTML code and generate hover effects on links. One thing changed all this: the introduction of the XMLHttpRequest object. This single element opened the way for external data within JavaScripts and, as they say it, the rest is history.
September 2008
Findability is a fascinating word. It emphasizes the goal of every publicly accessible Web site. If a Web site has findability then it is likely to have Web users visiting it. Findability is a concept often associated to the search engines of the Web. If a Web user finds a Web site in search engines and has a good position among search engine results then it is findable and has findability, but that is only one piece of the puzzle.
September 2008
The link is the cornerstone of the Web. That is why everything related to links is important: the URL, the linked text, the location of links, number of links and the quality of links.
September 2008
Fast loading Web pages and Web pages that are easy for other computers, including search engine spiders, to access and retrieve information from are more likely to enjoy success with search engine marketing.
September 2008
Splash pages are more common than one can imagine. Splash pages are for example advertisements pushed onto the user's screen before he reaches the actual content. The user can "skip intro" or wait for few seconds before the Web site delivers the actual content.
September 2008
