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  admin 10:09 am on November 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Web Development 

  

  Web is collection of websites. Web is also known as World Wide Web, it’s a hypertext system that operates over the internet. For retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources, or accessing the World Wide Web, we require a software application which is known as Web browser. The major web browsers are, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox etc.

  Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a website for the internet or an intranet. Web development include following items:

  • Web design

  • Web content development

  • Client liaison

  • Web server

  • Network security configuration

  • E-commerce development

  Wed development is used for several different activities which are related to the developing of a website especially for the WWW. . Web development can benefit from knowledge and skills in many areas and attention. For Web development you should have knowledge about Web Design, Internet marketing, Promotion, Copywriting and Search Engine Optimization is of the utmost importance.

  Web development ranges form the simplest tasks to the highly professional and complex applications. This can include the very simple plain-text page to the complicated applications of the web-based internet, or social networking. An important part of developing a web requires a proper strategy. Here are six-simple steps which guide you to develop a successful website.

  • Define your target audience. The goal should be to attract more visitors who fit the particular profile of a potential customer for a company or an organization.
  • Develop appropriate content for your website. Visitors will only continue to visit a website that provides interesting content. By developing to add new and interesting content and keeping the site updated, you will continue to increase the good will and also develop your site’s brand loyalty.
  • Align your site with online communities and/or website partners.
  • Develop an intra-company support network.
  • Refine your collateral marketing and promotion materials.
  • Obtain appropriate feedback. Feedback is the force of any successful website. The best way to obtain the feedback is through online feedback form.
  • The most important aspect of developing a website strategy is the necessity to write it down on paper and post it where everyone can see it. Companies and organization that involve all staff members in developing their website strategy tend to have greater success in executing that strategy.

  The Web development can be branched into two main categories:

  • The Client Side Coding

  • The Server Side Coding

  
   

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  admin 9:47 am on November 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Graphic Format 

  Although hundreds of graphic file formats exist web browsers only support a few of them. This article describes the different graphic file formats that are available to web designers and when they should be used. The graphic file formats supported by most popular web browsers are Graphic Interchange Format (GIF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and vector graphics.

  Most web graphics are raster images or bitmaps, which consist of a grid of colored pixels. Drawing and illustrations should be created as vector graphics which consist of mathematical descriptions of each element that makes up the lines shapes and color of the image. Vector graphics are created by drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand and are the graphic artist’s choice for creating drawings. Vector graphics must be converted to either GIF, JPEG OR PNG format to be used on a web page.

  A web designer could choose either the GIF or JPEG format for most uses. But, since the file size of a GIF is usually small than the file size of a JPEG, most web designers will use the GIF format for backgrounds, boxed, frames and any other graphical element that look fine using 8-bit color.

  Most designers will select the JPEG format for photographs and illustrations where the compression doesn’t compromise the visual quality of the image.

  As PNG becomes fully supported by most web browsers, it will probably replace GIF as the web designer’s choice for non-photographic page elements. However, GIF will still be used for animation.

  Some of the properties associated with Graphic formats are:

  • Transparency – this property allows the image to be varying degrees of opaqueness from solid to completely transparent (see-through).
  • Compression – this property allows the image to be stored in a much smaller file by using a mathematical algorithm to handle groups of pixels as a single item.
  • Interlacing – Interlacing allows the image to be loaded by first drawing the odd rows and then going back and drawing the even rows. It allows the visitor to see the picture sooner.
  • Animation – Animation gives the appearance of movement by using a series of successive still pictures. Animated gifs do not require a browser plug-in and can work on almost all devices.
  • Progressive loading – Progressive loading is similar to interlacing in that it only loads a portion of the picture initially but is not based on alternating rows and allows the user to see the picture quicker.
   
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  admin 9:46 am on November 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Web Designing Tips 

  Give Priority to the Website User’s Needs: A web designer must be focused on the user’s need at all times – usability, accessibility, user experience and user interaction considerations are all part of this. Learn to see things from a visitor’s perspective while designing. To build a great Web site, you must understand the needs of your users. You could use market research and focus groups or even conduct surveys to understand your users better.

  Use Clear, Maintainable and Easy Navigation: Navigation links placement on your website plays a big role in determining the stickiness factor of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Your navigational structure should be neat, consistent and easily accessible for an optimal undistracted user experience. The navigation should be flexible enough to accommodate any amount of additional links as required. Read our Website Navigation Tips before you start designing your site.

  Clean and Consistent Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site’s look and readability. The layout should also keep the focus on your content. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

  Design for all Screen Resolutions: A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.

  Make sure the website is Cross Browser Compatible: Make sure you check your website in the most used versions of all top browsers Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Netscape as they constitute 95% of the world’s browsers.

  Optimize Load Time: Make sure your load time is low and test for your website’s performance often.

  Test Early Test Often (TETO): It’s extremely important to carry out usability and user interaction tests as early as the design phase of building your website. Also keep testing and improving your website as it grows.
   
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  admin 9:46 am on November 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Principles of Web Design 

  In order to use the principles properly we first need to understand how users interact with web-sites, how they think and what the basic patterns of users’ behavior are.

  Don’t make users think-According to Krug’s first law of usability; the web-page should be obvious and self-explanatory. When you’re creating a site, your job is to get rid of the question marks the decisions users need to make consciously, considering pros, cons and alternatives.

  Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

  Don’t squander users’ patience: First-time visitors are willing to play with the service, not filling long web forms for an account they might never use in the future. Let users explore the site and discover your services without forcing them into sharing private data. It’s not reasonable to force users to enter an email address to test the feature.

  Manage to focus users’ attention: As web-sites provide both static and dynamic content, some aspects of the user interface attract attention more than others do.

  Make use of effective writing: As the Web is different from print, it’s necessary to adjust the writing style to users’ preferences and browsing habits. Promotional writing won’t be read.

  Strive for simplicity: The “keep it simple”-principle (KIS) should be the primary goal of site design. Users are rarely on a site to enjoy the design.

  Actually it’s really hard to overestimate the importance of white space. Not only does it help to reduce the cognitive load for the visitors, but it makes it possible to perceive the information presented on the screen. When a new visitor approaches a design layout, the first thing he/she tries to do is to scan the page and divide the content area into digestible pieces of information.

  Testing: This should be applied to every web design project as usability tests often provide crucial insights into significant problems and issues related to a given layout.
   
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  admin 3:30 pm on November 7, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  Flash Websites 

  Flash Website design provides the developer with immense scope of using creative designs and techniques to make the site more interesting. It can bring a normal HTML page to life through various features like flash animation, audio, video and images. It can make the site into a fireball of attraction ensuring that the users have a unique experience encouraging them to a positive action like strike a deal with the company.

  Flash websites are just the right medium for displaying commercials, games, and movies. Makes your portfolio more attractive, gives a friendly navigation making the visitors stick to the site for longer which means a higher possibility of they getting converted into a customer.

  Gone are the days of those boring static websites that had a stagnant content spread around the pages with nothing to interest the user. This is the era where websites are expected to be more interactive, interesting and appealing. As the competition has risen, number of sites has increased and the importance of websites in terms of producing profits has become inevitable, it is of prime concern that your website presents something extra to the end users. And this something extra can be provided by the use of Flash Website Designing.

  Flash has become another name for interactivity in website design. Flash interface has replaced the conventional non static elements on webpage with ones which lively interacts with the user. Now days flash can be easily integrated into existing website design through flash templates. Most of the website owners fear that they might have to spent fortune to incorporate this interactive language of flash into their websites because only a web developer with the knowledge of programming and design can do it easily. It’s very expensive to employ the services of such a designer, but the availability online flash templates have simplified the task. These flash templates give the much needed interactivity to the web design and also they cost just a fraction of amount needed for employing a flash professional at work.

  With the advancement of technology, the competition has stiffened and one has to be on the toes all the time to survive. But this advancement has provided equally potent tools to fight the fight and come out as a winner. All one has got to do is, make use of them. Get a website designed in flash and make sure you fulfill your desires and dreams.
   
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  admin 3:25 pm on November 7, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  What is Website Designing 

  Web design is the creation of a web page. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are shaped to produce the page seen on the web browser. It focuses on building the front-end of a web page.

  Languages

  Web designers use markup languages such as Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) which helps to build great web pages by presenting information to a browser. In addition, some of the most popular languages for ‘dynamic’ web design include ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion. Macromedia’s Flash also allows for a different sort of web design and is very popular amongst many web designers.

  Purpose

  The purpose of web design is to facilitate communication between user and content. it should be designed in a way people actually use the web.

  Limitations

  There are so many risks untaken in a web designing. HTML has a number of variable factors and not all browsers interpret HTML according to the standards created by the standard-setting body — the World Wide Web (WWW) Consortium. As well as web designer must account for different monitor sizes, different display settings, and even browsers for non-sighted surfers. These concerns often leave a web designer struggling to incorporate enough dynamism to make a web page attractive on a range of browser sizes, while creating a layout static enough to allow for the use of images and other necessarily fixed-size components.

  Important Steps

  • Setting clear goal on web designing based on clients’ requirements and users with a very creative visualization.
  • Knowing the purpose of the particular web through several clear communications with the client till get the final clarification.
  • Understanding the wants of site visitors and using techniques to keep them permanently.
  • Getting a good picture of the personality and style of the site. Site’s own goals that may be in conflict with users’ goals. The site also often has soft goals, to support or develop its Brand. All these various forces must be balanced optimally.
  • Planning out the site’s structure based on purpose of site, and the purpose of the visitors. The most important aspects of the interaction between site and user must be clearly defined and matched.
  • Merging the Site map in accordance with all the views from visitors.
  • Structuring the overall page and drawing proportions on visitors’ attention by laying out such as big things, strong colors, high contrast, actual animation or dynamic lines for the impression of movement.