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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The web services concept being championed by computing giants like Sun, Oracle, HP, Microsoft, and IBM doesn&#8217;t contain many new ideas, but it is a great step towards simple access to software over the network. By promoting standards-based communication, web services might change the way we build websites. &#13; Web services make software functionality [...]]]></description>
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<p>The web services concept being championed by computing giants like Sun, Oracle, HP, Microsoft, and IBM doesn&#8217;t contain many new ideas, but it is a great step towards simple access to software over the network. By promoting standards-based communication, web services might change the way we build websites.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Web services make software functionality available over the Internet so that programs like PHP, ASP, JSP, JavaBeans, the COM object, and all our other favorite widgets can make a request to a program running on another server (a web service) and use that program&#8217;s response in a website, WAP service, or other application.</p>
<p><b>Component Technologies of Web Services</b><br />&#13;</p>
<p>Consider a scenario in which you need to locate a particular pharmacy store in your area. You would not go out on the road and ask every person you met the way to the store. You might, instead, refer the Web site of the pharmacy on the Internet. If you knew the pharmacy&#8217;s Web site, you would look it up directly and find the location through the store locator link. If not, you would go to a search engine and type out the name of the pharmacy in the language that the search engine was meant to recognize. After getting the location, you would find the directions to the store, and then go to the store.</p>
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<p>In Web Services, SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL represent the roles mentioned in these steps.</p>
<p><b>SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)</b> is the method by which you can send messages across different modules. This is similar to how you communicate with the search engine that contains an index with the Web sites registered in the index associated with the keywords.</p>
<p><b>UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)</b> is the global look up base for locating the services. In the example mentioned earlier, this is analogous to the index service for the search engine, in which all the Web sites register themselves associated with their keywords. It maintains a record of all the pharmacy store locations throughout the country.</p>
<p><b>WSDL (Web Services Definition Language</b>) is the method through which different services are described in the UDDI.</p>
<p><b>Summarize: A Web Service is</b><br />&#13;</p>
<p>*	A programmable application, accessible as a component via standard Web protocols, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Uses standard Web protocols like HTTP, XML and SOAP, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Works through existing proxies and firewalls, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Can take advantage of HTTP authentication, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Encryption for free with SSL, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Easy incorporation with existing XML messaging solutions, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Takes advantage of XML messaging schemas and easy transition from XML RPC solutions, <br />&#13;<br />
*	No conflict between proprietary component based solutions like CORBA and COM, <br />&#13;<br />
*	Combines the best aspects of component-based development and the Web, and Available to a variety of clients (platform independent).</p>
<p><b>Business Aspects of Web Services</b><br />&#13;</p>
<p>Web Services in the business world, in the most simplistic fashion, provides a mechanism of communication between two remote systems, connected through the network of the Web Services. The business applications as Web Services, the information systems of different companies can be linked. These business systems then can be accessed by using simple SOAP messages over the normal HTTP Web protocol. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>There are many more important uses of Web Services. These, again, depend on the requirement of your company. Interested enough to find out more? In our next article, you will learn about the architecture of Web Services, the technology organization, the protocols used, and the basic steps involved in building a Web Services application.</p>
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		<title>How to Construct Effective Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyean</dc:creator>
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<p>Successful web design is marked by certain characteristics. Several technical aspects of a website need reviewing before the web design stage. Here are those <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://alteraweb.com/">Web Design Service</a> features that need to be examined.</p>
<p> Effective Graphics</p>
<p> Graphics are a significant part of successful web design. Web design must feature relatively small size images. Even in days of broadband, images more than 40-50KB in size can irritate the visitor due to a longer downloading time. Remember, web design is the crucial part of <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://alteraweb.com/solutions.html">Web Development and Maintenance</a> these little things need to be looked at in detail. Moreover, your competitors can get their share of business if your home page doesn’t open in those 3-5 seconds time. One must use flash images only if they are indispensable. These images distract viewers and prevent them from reading your content. Moreover, the graphics used during the web design process must compliment the content. You must not keep up pictures just because they are photogenic and unique. They must match the matter. Images speak about your content.</p>
<p> Systematic Layout </p>
<p> The layout used during web design must be standardized so that the visitor is not annoyed by it. Scrolling must be standardized and the size must be a familiar one. Stick to basics and offer a scroll up and down option rather than right and left. Spacing is also important during web design. Too many filler’s won’t work in your favor. </p>
<p> Fondness for fonts</p>
<p> During the web design process, the designer has multiple fonts to consider. However, only one or two fonts ought to be used for the best results.Varied fonts can only confuse and distract the visitor. 3 fonts for different pages may not work well with the visitors. Don’t use fonts that may give the illusion of a blur. Printer friendly fonts are the best suited. Browser compatibility with fonts must also be looked into while web design. Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman are popular with standard browsers. </p>
<p> Deceptive Advertisements</p>
<p> Your website may be doing well and you may get offers for selling space on your website. This may help you to make money. However during the web design stage, you must carefully consider these advertisements. These advertisements on your top page or mail URL can work against you. These are basically images that may take time to upload and divert traffic due to slow loading. </p>
<p> Empathy scores</p>
<p> You must always empathize with your readers and ensure that web design provides for browser compatibility. You must construct web pages that work with all browsers unless specified otherwise. Operating system should also match with the viewers’ choice. The content must appeal to the users and a sitemap must be provided on your web pages.</p>
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		<title>Five Ways to Leverage Your Web Investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If you&#8217;re like most small businesses, your web site is an investment. And like most investments, you&#8217;d like to see a nice return on that investment over time. But unlike other investments, your web site doesn&#8217;t gain any value if it just sits there untouched &#8211; you have to maintain it and re-invest in it from time to time in order for it to grow in value and produce big returns for your business.</p>
<p>&#13;So if your web site isn&#8217;t currently getting the results you&#8217;d like, here are five ways to leverage your web investment to help your site raise its rankings, convert more customers, and boost your bottom line!</p>
<p>&#13;<strong>1. Redesign if it&#8217;s time.</strong> Let&#8217;s face it, web technology changes constantly, but small businesses often launch their web sites (with a giant sigh of relief) and then forget about them. If your site hasn&#8217;t been updated in more than a year or so, it&#8217;s probably time to bring it up to current standards.</p>
<p>&#13;Upgrading to &#8220;current standards&#8221; involves more than just updating the HTML code and CSS styles. It also means adding the standard web functionality that today&#8217;s users expect when they visit a web site. Common technology like blogs, video, web widgets, mobile applications, geo-tagging, podcasts, and sophisticated drop-down navigation systems are just some of the features that differentiate today&#8217;s updated, progressive web sites from their outdated counterparts.</p>
<p>&#13;<strong>2. Optimize for the search engines.</strong> It probably goes without saying, but I&#8217;ll say it anyway. A non-optimized web site simply cannot compete with the millions and millions of other sites on the web &#8211; many of which have already been optimized.</p>
<p>&#13;Your web site is one of the most important marketing tools that your small business has, but if customers and prospects cannot find it, you are missing out on the traffic, new leads, and additional sales that an optimized site can produce.</p>
<p>&#13;At the very least, make sure your site correctly uses meta data, heading tags, and link anchor text. You can also build up your inbound links by taking advantage of industry directories, your Chamber of Commerce, and business-related organizations that allow you to add your link to their web sites. Also, you should always create unique, optimized landing pages for your email campaigns, advertisements, or pay-per-click campaigns to help boost your search engine placements, as well as maximize the potential of converting your web visitors into paying customers.</p>
<p>&#13;<strong>3. Fix your navigation.</strong> To have a well-organized, usable web site you must have an easy-to-use navigation system that allows users to quickly find the information they are looking for. Make sure that your site&#8217;s navigation system is consistent on all your web pages, and that information is never buried more than 2 or 3 clicks deep anywhere on the site.</p>
<p>&#13;Consider implementing a menu with mouse-over drop downs or sub categories that are visible without having to click, so users can see their choices without wasting clicks to unrelated pages. The faster users can find exactly what they are looking for, the faster they can convert into new customers.</p>
<p>&#13;<strong>4. Get Blogging.</strong> If you don&#8217;t already have a blog on your site, get one, and update it on a regular basis. This will boost your site&#8217;s search engine rankings, help build trust with your web visitors, and increase user loyalty and return visits to your site.</p>
<p>&#13;Recent reports show that almost half of all North American companies already have a blog, and this probably includes your competitors. Blogging has really become quite mainstream, and it&#8217;s a great way to reach your target audience while improving search engine positions, increasing traffic to your site, and improving customer engagement and participation.</p>
<p>&#13;<strong>5. Be a trusted resource for customers.</strong> If your web site is little more than an online &#8220;brochure,&#8221; consider adding some features that visitors will really appreciate. How-to articles, web widgets, a newsletter archive, feedback forms, free downloads, and RSS feeds of useful resources are all examples of web features that users love.</p>
<p>&#13;When you reward web visitors with features that are useful and provide value, you are establishing yourself as an expert who cares about helping them solve their problems. And isn&#8217;t that what customers are really looking for? They don&#8217;t care so much about your company or how long you have been in business, they care about solving their own problems! (Marketing 101.) So use your web site to demonstrate that you are more interested in providing visitors with value than tooting your own horn, and you will be rewarded with motivated, interested customers who already trust you and are ready to buy!</p>
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		<title>Importance Of W3 Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Internet first began its boom, the technologies used in design were forgiving. W3-Compliance wasn&#8217;t as necessary because there were fewer browsers, fewer users, and overall fewer technologies in use. With the burgeoning popularity of the internet, new developmental tools are created daily. With these tools come new challenges &#8211; marketing, design, cross-browser transitions, [...]]]></description>
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<p>When the Internet first began its boom, the technologies used in design were forgiving. W3-Compliance wasn&#8217;t as necessary because there were fewer browsers, fewer users, and overall fewer technologies in use. With the burgeoning popularity of the internet, new developmental tools are created daily. With these tools come new challenges &#8211; marketing, design, cross-browser transitions, etc. All of these can be a daunting task for those web gurus who aren&#8217;t well-versed in the W3 Standards. W3 (<a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://w3schools.com" title="http://w3schools.com">http://w3schools.com</a>) is a resource for webmasters and programmers who want the most for their viewing public. There are numerous technologies used by programmers (ASP, PHP, and Javascript to name a few), but this article will focus solely on XHTML and CSS. W3 has a set of standards for both of these technologies, and making a website W3-compliant ensures that most all viewers will see the site exactly the same way (no matter what browser they&#8217;re using). Validation also helps with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) because clean code means easier search-engine spidering.&#13;</p>
<p>Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a technology often used in sites with many pages to make aesthetic changes easier. The style sheet is an exterior file that runs interdependently with the HTML (or outputted HTML) of a site. The style sheet serves as a template for the entire site&#8217;s color and font schemes, while also controlling borders, sizes, and more. Being able to edit a single file, instead of 100s of changes in many files saves time and precious web design dollars. Validation is imperative to get the most out of a website. That is, a user can upload or copy-and-paste their CSS file to the W3 site, and they&#8217;ll be given a list of any errors it contains.&#13;</p>
<p>Another of the technologies becoming more popular is Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML. XHTML is an extension of HTML 4.0, and, while in its infancy, has become quite prevalent. XHTML conforms to standards moreso than HTML. As such, it is more search-engine and user-friendly:&#13;</p>
<p>XHTML documents conform to XML. XML Tools can double as XHTML tools.&#13;</p>
<p>XHTML is an extension of HTML 4.0. It is more user-friendly and streamlined than HTML.&#13;</p>
<p>XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML in that it can run scripts and applets that use both the HTML and XML DOM (Document Object Model)&#13;</p>
<p>As XHTML grows, XHTML 1.0 documents will be able to interoperate among other XHTML documents making it a more browser transitional language.&#13;</p>
<p>To conclude, using the standards of web development lined out by the W3 is imperative for users to get the most out of a site. Often, making a webpage W3-compliant is the first step of SEO, a marketing tool to get the most out of your advertising dollar. Validation is easy, and can be completed if a user has a basic knowledge of HTML-editing and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Using these tools, coupled with the set of W3 standards can save a lot of money and help the site&#8217;s overall functionality.</p>
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		<title>Xml &amp; Sgml Standardization Framework</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To present information over the internet, developers have to use certain programming languages. Basically, programming languages are developed to inform computer in which way it should work after getting specific instructions. Although there are different types of languages available in the world of computer but XML is really getting popular because of many good reasons. [...]]]></description>
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<p>To present information over the internet, developers have to use certain programming languages. Basically, programming languages are developed to inform computer in which way it should work after getting specific instructions. Although there are different types of languages available in the world of computer but XML is really getting popular because of many good reasons.</p>
<p>Extensible Markup Language or <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japan-website.com/">XML </a>is one of most extensively used languages to exchange information over World Wide Web. It is considered an extensible language because of the fact that users can made certain changes to its basic form. This language is getting more popular because it is now creating a standardization framework. Because of this standardization framework, it has now become much more convenient for certain businesses to store and retrieve information. A great example can be seen in healthcare industry where this framework makes it possible to store the record of a patient for good.</p>
<p><strong>Delving into the concept:</strong><br /> Today all software companies are considering the role of XML while developing certain software solutions. To get a better idea of XML, it is relevant to throw some light on SGML. Standard Generalized Markup Language or SGML is a metalanguage. It means that there are certain languages that can be found within <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japan-website.com/">SGML</a>. In fact, XML is supposed to be subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language. It is because of the universality and ease of implementation that people are now more prone to use XML for document specification in lieu of using SGML.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the role of SGML, in terms of revolutionizing the world, can not be overlooked. It was HTML, an application of SGML, which has changed the fate of World Wide Web.</p>
<p><strong>Playing the role of standardization framework:</strong><br /> As mentioned that XML is now creating standardization framework, so, it is essential to talk something about meta-standards. Meta-standards refer to those standards that can be used to define other standards. Some of the XML related standards are acquired from ISO and some of them are added to the language in general.</p>
<p>There are certain ways and methods to translate between different standards. In fact, these are also known as special standards which play the role of translator between other standards. The standard specifying ways to translate is called mediator. It is worth mentioning that there are specific standards that determine the way how mediators are to be defined. So, the whole standardization process is quite complicated as one standard is used to define other standards, but, that&#8217;s what standardization framework is all about.</p>
<p>As SGML is responsible to bring forth XML, so, the common root of standards is the Standard Generalized Markup Language. But, XML grew at a rapid pace because of its special characteristic known as “extensible”.</p>
<p><strong>The bottom line:</strong><br /> Since there are different <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.japan-website.com/">meta-standards</a> and mediators, so, such system is supposed to be more flexible than others. The openness of this system is another aspect helping developers in a great way. Due to this openness of system, lots of development can be seen in coming years.</p>
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<p>Przemyslaw Prokopow is a project manager at JPSof LLC, Tokyo-based internet agency specializing in Japanese website design, marketing and eCommerce in Japan. He has a Ph.D. in computer science and over 10 years experience in IT industry.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[W3C compliance has a lot to do with accessibility. Correct codes are scannable. The search engine bots scan error-free HTML better and index the sites accurately. But when the W3C enthusiasts started this project their idea had nothing to do with SEO. The plan was to create some web coding standards that will make it [...]]]></description>
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<p>W3C compliance has a lot to do with accessibility. Correct codes are scannable. The search engine bots scan error-free HTML better and index the sites accurately.  </p>
<p>But when the W3C enthusiasts started this project their idea had nothing to do with SEO. The plan was to create some web coding standards that will make it easier for the web coders to program websites that are visible in all the browsers, adaptable, flexible and accessible with any reading devices, in short: websites for the users. The idea was supposed to bring advantages for all: designers, web surfers and website owners (by providing the basis for sites with a good, logical structure, that would be more economical to update, change and so on). </p>
<p>The W3C standards are still a matter of debate, but this will not take so long anymore. Google, the Giant of the search, is already taking steps to support the W3C initial ideas. <br />
In <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://labs.google.com/accessible/">Google&#8217;s Accessible Web Search</a> – right now a simple experiment – accessible sites rank higher. This is Google&#8217;s effort to deliver better search results (accessible websites) for the visually impaired. This means that sites that comply with the W3C standards and pass an official accessibility tests (ex. Cynthia Says) will rank higher into the search engine result pages. </p>
<p>Accessible sites are not visually distracting: so the graphics or/and animations are kept to a minimum and they work well even without images. Such sites are easy navigable – navigation can be managed with the keyboard.  Good navigation enhances user experience and that means that it increases website usability. The fact that Google prioritizes  websites that are accessible and compliant sets clear new goals for SEOs everywhere. </p>
<p>The truth is that people with disabilities should be able to benefit from the same tools as everyone else. And I suppose that Google&#8217;s purpose is to merge its Accessible Web Search into the standard Web search one day. More and more webtrepreneurs understand the importance of valid codes and accessibility, but till the day comes when the Web will run on smooth paths, we still have a long time to wait. In the meanwhile SEOs will introduce a new SEO service in their menu: HTML validation. I confess, I practice what I preach since 2004.  It&#8217;s my understanding of “web optimization.” I also try to address the main accessibility issues on each site I work on, and make each and every page pass the automatic Cynthia validation. <br />&#13;<br />
Google&#8217;s guidelines on accessibility (still under development) will probably not be as strict as those of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), but they&#8217;ll still make a difference for the impaired users. </p>
<p>With already existent sites it might be difficult to comply with all the accessibility guidelines, but it will not hurt to correct at least a part of them. <strong>There are no excuses for invalid HTML codes.</strong><br />
To make a long story short: <a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.red-dog.com/EN/Structure_and_User_Interface.html">validate your HTML</a> and address your accessibility issues now, to create a solid base for website usability and to avoid imminent future financial strains. </p>
<p>Besides, by optimizing your site from these two perspectives (W3C and accessibility), you are increasing visibility in Google. Isn&#8217;t this what you wish for your site?</p>
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		<title>Web Design Articles &#8211; Separating the Content From Its Presentation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways for implementing this concept. More than that, since the introduction of technologies such as CGI, ASP, and PHP that allow web developers to generate dynamic web pages, a lot of companies have found creative ways to develop their website applications using this concept as their foundation. Over the past few years, [...]]]></description>
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<p>There are many ways for implementing this concept. More than that, since the introduction of technologies such as CGI, ASP, and PHP that allow web developers to generate dynamic web pages, a lot of companies have found creative ways to develop their website applications using this concept as their foundation. </p>
<p> Over the past few years, the internet community has been trying to create a set of standards for creating web sites. A new technology called CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has been introduced. There is nothing actually new in the way CSS handles a web page’s presentation. CSS allows the developer to define a style for each html tag element. This is similar to the method developers (programmers) used in the old days when they attached a variable to each html tag defining its style. The major difference is that CSS style definitions can be interpreted by most of the existing browsers available while in the older method the dynamic web page engine performs the interpretation. </p>
<p> The internet standards organization W3C has encouraged the use of CSS by enhancing its ability to control the web page’s look and feel. New style options have been added to the CSS specifications that have not been added to the HTML description language. There’s no doubt that this was a smart move. It has induced the web developers to use CSS to achieve an attractive web page that also supports the principle of content separation. Unfortunately CSS did not find its way into the internet mainstream easily because of compatibility issues with most web browsers. These days CSS is widely supported by most of the major web browsers, while CSS2, an enhanced version of CSS still has serious compatibility issues. </p>
<p> Obviously, the separation of content from its presentation deals not only with the styling aspects, but also with browser compatibility issues. The styling aspects were the first to be handled by web developers and web designers. As the complexity of information technology (IT) systems become increasingly more difficult to maintain, the internet community is looking for a solution that will become a standard so that content can be easily be managed. One goal for this standard is to define a “language” that IT systems can “talk” with each other and exchange information. Large corporations have historically used many different software platforms in their networks to conduct business. Internet based applications can provide a single platform that can act as an intermediary between all of these different systems and allow communication between them. </p>
<p> XML (Extensible Markup Language) has been adopted as a standard to present the content itself. OFX (Open Financial Exchange) is a close relative of XML that has been widely used by financial institutions who have been using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems to transmit orders and invoices over private networks, intranets and the internet for several years. </p>
<p> The need to present the content in a standard way that separates it from any design elements was so urgent that for the first time in software development history all the three major players (SUN, IBM, and Microsoft) actually agreed with each other and XML become a standard almost overnight and was adopted by many content providers and news agencies. </p>
<p> Yet the concept was not fully implemented. CSS handles the styling aspects while XML handles the document content. What about the webpage layout? New websites are been published each day by thousands. Every day millions of new web pages are being added to the internet’s global database. Webmasters have found that changing the page background color or the font color might not be enough to keep their website fresh and polished to compete with other new websites. However, changing the website layout can sometimes involve a lot of effort because it involves modifying the web page source code. XSL was introduced to solve that issue. Consider XSL a set of rules that can describe a web page layout. Combine it with XML (and optionally with CSS) you will get a valid html file. </p>
<p> XSL is very similar in its mechanics as any other dynamic web page generator. Beside the fact that XSL is platform independent, its biggest advantage is that it can be processed on the client side. The web server sends the client the content using XML format and the layout definition using XSL format. By doing that, the load on the web server’s CPU is reduced allowing it to perform other tasks more quickly. However, XSL was not adopted by all the major web browsers. So unlike XML, XSL has not found its way to the market easily. </p>
<p> Before you run back to your desk and start redesigning your website according to these magnificent standards, you should be aware that those technologies are really not needed most of the time. In fact, using them unnecessarily can cause performance problems. CSS usually will not cause your system to slow down. Just try to keep your CSS file as small as possible. Many web developers maintain large CSS files with lots of unused style definitions. Deciding to work with XML is a serious decision. If your website generates dynamic web pages supported by databases like MySQL, adding additional XML functionality will definitely reduce your website performance. Sometimes you won’t have a choice and will need to upgrade your hardware to maintain your website’s performance. There is no rule of thumb for this issue. The decision should be based on each system and its engineering demands. Try to predict what kind of future services your website will be providing. Plan your website properly at stage one and save yourself lots of effort later.</p>
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		<title>Substance and Style Are Essentials of Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyean</dc:creator>
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<p>Though not as important as writing amazing content, creating an awesome site design is the most important part of leaving a remarkable first impression on your visitors. Contents keeps visitors coming back, but a beautiful web design has its own value. Before you go out and spend hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a web site design, make sure you understand the basics.</p>
<p>&#13;There are two aspects of a good web design: substance and style. Like we mentioned above, each has its own value, and can make the other aspect even better.</p>
<p>&#13;Let&#8217;s start out with substance, or the technical aspect of a web design. A well-designed web site should be and easy to navigate. Minimize the distractions. Make sure your visitors can access the blog through a wide variety of web browsers, operating systems, and screen resolutions. You wouldn&#8217;t want to mess up a beautiful design by only coding it for one browser.</p>
<p>&#13;One commonly overlooked component of web design is the page&#8217;s loading time. With many designs extremely graphic-heavy, some sites take several seconds to completely load. In an era of web surfing where a visit may only last a couple seconds, it&#8217;s important to keep your visitor&#8217;s attention while you have it. Images should only be a few kilobytes (10kb &#8211; 12kb). Many graphic editors, such as Adobe Photoshop, have a &#8220;save for web&#8221; feature that will allow you to save the bandwidth and load time by cutting file size.</p>
<p>&#13;As far as the aesthetic design goes, it&#8217;s important to be &#8220;unique,&#8221; after all, that&#8217;s how trends change. But in most cases, it&#8217;s better to stick with a traditional conservative design. There&#8217;s a whole laundry list of ways that a web layout can get out of hand. Minimize the distractions. Stick with a couple simple fonts. Avoid Flash-based component that steal bandwidth and attention. Cut down on the advertisements, especially ones that aren&#8217;t extremely profitable. Don&#8217;t automatically have your favorite song start blasting in the background. And whatever you do, there&#8217;s no need to change the visitor&#8217;s cursor. Final point: keep it simple, stupid. There&#8217;s the end of that rant.</p>
<p>&#13;There are quite a few tools out there for a webmaster&#8217;s disposal. Some software applications allow you to certify your site meets web standards. These swiss-army knives of design can help your site do it all. It&#8217;s possible to check out your site in a variety of browsers and resolutions, as well as making sure the code meets world wide web standards. In most cases, trial versions available for download, if not the full version. For web designers working on a variety of sites, a do-it-all program is a great asset for improving design functionality.</p>
<p>&#13;Web design is the telephone line that delivers your message to your visitors. Better yet, your web design is the phone itself. Everybody wants a stylish design, but it&#8217;s most important that the message is delivered across effectively.</p>
<p>&#13;Designing a web site is a never-ending process. Even after the initial design, you&#8217;ll find that little tweaks are needed from time to time. With the ever-evolving Internet, even a state of the art web site may need a significant redesign just one year later. Ask your readers for feedback about the site design; after all, they&#8217;re the ones you&#8217;re trying to communicate with.</p>
<p>&#13;Hiring a web design firm is one to develop a beautiful web site. However, don&#8217;t forget that functionality is the essential part. Common sense doesn&#8217;t require a thousand-dollar phone consultant.</p>
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		<title>Embrace the Future of the Web With Xhtml</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Extensible Hypertext Markup Language or XHTML is a markup language used to format the content on web pages. It builds on the strengths of HTML by conforming to XML syntax. XML is important because it eases the automated processing of information on web pages by using standard XML tools. While HTML processing tools are available, they tend to be custom solutions and can’t guarantee compatibility with all the HTML-based web pages out there. XML was originally thought to redefine the nature of the World Wide Web (WWW) due to the powerful possibilities of easily processing information in XML pages. Unfortunately, the majority of content developers stuck with HTML despite its inherent limitations and annoyances. XHTML was introduced to bridge the gap between HTML and XML and make it easier to transition to an information rich world powered by XML.</p>
<p>Since the XHTML standard is being developed under the guidance of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), it is also known as W3C XHTML. The problem with HTML is that it is quite lenient when dealing with errors. Parsers (special programs that sift through information) and user agents (browsers) have gotten increasingly complex because they are tasked with the burden of correcting poorly written HTML code in web pages. The XML specification calls for stricter rules in writing code so XHTML compliant browsers would alert content developers with a fatal error. This will reduce the complexity of browsers tremendously because they will no longer have to correct author errors. It will also result in faster rendering of web pages. <br />The XHTML 1.0 specification is only slightly different from the pre-dominant HTML specification.</p>
<p>XHTML mainly encourages developers to write HTML in a way that conforms to the stricter rules of XML. Due to the similarity between XHTML and HTML, it is hoped that developers will find it easy to transition their websites to the XML way of doing things. W3C XHTML is expected to painlessly transition the WWW to the future where searching, indexing and parsing information will herald a new era of boosting productivity by guaranteeing easy access to useful and reliable information from the clutter of WWW. XHTML’s benefit of introducing uniformity to document structures is especially important to large organizations and businesses that have to deal with immense amounts of product information and customer databases.</p>
<p>If you have ever had to read web pages on a handheld device, you might be well aware of the problems associated with consistency in the appearance of the web page. XHTML promises to relegate these problems to the past by ensuring that web pages appear cleanly on every device and don’t turn into a garbled mess of content and interface elements like menus. Thus XHTML promotes better interoperability. Despite the promise of a better WWW, XHTML adoption is being hampered by non-existent compliance to the XHTML specification by a major web browser. While most popular browsers have mature support for XHTML, the most widely used Internet Explorer browser fails to render XHTML content and instead offers to save it to disk. IE7 and the beta version of IE8 are equal partners in this crime. The best thing to do in such a state of affairs is to switch to more standards-compliant browsers. This might be the only way to motivate Microsoft to adhere to web standards in a timely manner and speed up the transition to the future of the WWW.</p>
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<p>Empire Elements is the name of simplicity and professionalism. They believe in going through a lot of details before they design and develop a website. It is this professional attitude that has made Empire Elements to stand tall than their counterparts.</p>
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Apart from the different elements that they believe are important in designing and developing a website, they also focus on Website Standards and its Accessibility. Right now you must be wondering about what are Website Standards and its Accessibility.</p>
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Let us first discuss and understand about Website Standards. You must have seen that the different things that you buy on a day to day basis are made under strict standards as required by the institution that sets standards it for that specific industry.</p>
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To put it simply, following the web standards allows the web developers to design a website in the most efficient and effective way and not only permits the visitors to have a wonderful surfing experience, but also saves them a lot of time while browsing.</p>
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We need to explore a little bit of the history here. When the web browsers came into being, at that time they did not have the technology of Cascading Style Sheets. This created a problem for the web developers to control the presentation of the text and images on a web page.</p>
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It was at that time that the web developers started using HTML language in a way that allowed them to have a control on the presentation. It was then that in 1996, the specification of CSS level 1 (cascading style sheets) was published, which allowed web developers to have a much effective tool to control the material displayed on a web page.</p>
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Then in 1998, the specification of CSS level 2 was published and with the passage of time the improvements followed in Cascading Style Sheets and the web browser developers are using this technology to ensure a better environment to work in for web developers and a classic surfing experience for the visitors.</p>
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So the professional website developers who follow standards use HTML or XHTML, use CSS in place of tables, have a properly structured website, develop websites that can run in any web browser.</p>
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There is another question that is being asked by developers and users as to why there is a need for web standards to develop websites. The answer is pretty simple. When standards are followed it is much easier to maintain a website, it is assured that following standards you will get web browser compatibility, faster downloading of pages, excellent accessibility, good search engine rankings, simpler adaptation.</p>
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Accessibility to a website means that the information present on a website is accessible to all the readers, which also includes the disabled. It is here that we need to understand the fact that following website standards is what makes the website accessible.</p>
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The professionals at Empire Elements follow all the standards to ensure that the clients get the best results according to their expectations and this can be seen through the different projects that they have worked on.</p>
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It is this commitment to provide the best to all the clients has increased their clientele on a very fast pace and today Empire Elements has gained a lot of market not only in UK but globally.</p>
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