Web Design
We could tell you how to make things look pretty, but really, what are web designers today having to consider for tomorrows design and development challenges. Do we all know html, javascript or are we filing through the tutorials and visiting webmonkey as a frequent flyer? Or do we use a wysiwyg program such as dreamweaver to achieve our site goals? Do we know about web hosting, bandwidth etc? All these questions need to be addressed before we emabark on our quest for the best. To Make matters easy for you we have built this site to help you with all your webuilding and marketing online needs. Please see that we have the following areas for view: Web Design, Clip Art, Flash, Usability, Photo albums, Message Boards, Links, Design Glossary, Free Stuff, Ecommerce, Search Engines and Website. We hope you enjoy the site and find it to be a wealth of knowledge. So lets get started...
Introducing Your Advanced Web Design Guide
With so much information out there, what is right? We offer the best of the web, to help you expand and excell with your web presence and best practice solutions. Looking beyond design, what other areas does web design encompase, read more about:
Clip Art: What is clip art? Where are the best places to get images? Is there clip art or images you can get for free? Clip art is an image file or "pictures" with file extensions like .gif, jpeg, .png and the like that designers use in web design to make your wesite "look pretty" and more appealing.
Flash: What is Flash? In this day and age of web design it is important to have flash , which is a motion - based image file that conveys the webmasters design or advertisement. Not all web browsers support flash and that can cause problems.
Usability: can be summed up by the following goals of: shortening task accomplishment time, reducing numbers of mistakes made, enhancing learning time, and improving system user's overall satisfaction.
Photo Albums: Photos are an important part of family life; many sites have albums of photographs. Even if you do not have a web page, you can set up a free photo album on the Internet. It is not necessary to know how to program. Your album can be used to share photographs of your family, friends or for interests sake. Several sites are available that provide free albums, allowing you can keep your photos private, or share them with the world.
Message Boards: (sometimes called discussion or bulletin boards) are used as a vehicle where people can go to ask questions, find answers, and share their own thoughts and ideas. These boards are generally geared toward a specific topic. From the latest news to movies and families, message boards help bridge the gap between people, opening a vast world of shared knowledge.
Links: What are links? In HTML “Links” link one page to another page.How to create a link to another page. It's a set tag format. Once you learn the format, you can make as many links as you want to any other page/s you want.
Web Design Glossary: Here you'll find a glossary of web design terms and conventions.
Free Stuff: Whats free online! How to get free web design, free images and clip art, free stuff!
Ecommerce: Electric commerce: the conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. Specifically, ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications.
Seach Engines: Search engines are Web sites that help you search the Internet for other Web sites based on keywords you provide.
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Web Patterns
When creating web pages, designers, developers, interaction and usability/HCI specialists all come across re-occuring problems with a site and/or its features. When these problems take similar forms, time and again, they can be refered to as patterns.
Find out more about web patterns
Web Accessibility
What does "Web accessibility" mean? It simply means that anyone using any kind of Web browsing technology must be able to visit any site and get a full and complete understanding of the information contained there, as well as have the full and complete ability to interact with the site.
Well designed sites should always take into consideration the accessiblity of their content in consideration to their audience. Discover the top three ways to make your site in-accessible.
The Semantic Web & Contextual Content
The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a user's needs.
More and more we see users needs moving from commercially produced content to more dynamic and contextually relevant content. An example offline is the 20 million camera phones in Japan text messaging with added photo sharing abilities. This feature is adding context to conversations making messages look more and more like content publishing.
Read more on future contextual web presences.
