Web Technologies Explained

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Posted January 21st, 2008 by IrinaP
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a term describing a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of a page written in HTML or other markup language.

 

Like other web-related standards and languages, CSS was introduced and is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

 

Benefits of Bespoke Software

Posted December 20th, 2007 by IrinaP
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If you run a business and you take advantage of IT technologies, then you are running software; but what sort of software are you running? And is it actually helping you run your business?

 

Software usually falls into two categories: packaged (or proprietary), i.e. bought or downloaded ‘off-the-shelf’ or bespoke, that's to say, custom-made.

 

Video on Demand

Posted November 10th, 2007 by NickJ
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Introduction

 

Video on demand is one of the popular web technologies playing an important role in Web 2.0 and modern Internet marketing. Usually referred to as "VOD", it can either stream the video content or allow to download it and watch it later.

Ajax versus Flash

Posted October 18th, 2007 by NickJ
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Ajax & Flex Technologies

 

We can all see the changes happening on the web nowadays, in the web 2.0 era - sites  load faster, they are more interactive and often contain audio/video information; sections on a page are updated independently according to user actions, thus the web application is more responsive and generates less traffic; the user interface has become almost as convenient as using a desktop application.

 

Ajax

 

The Importance of Valid HTML Code

Posted October 18th, 2007 by IrinaP
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Why is it important to make your HTML code compliant with the accepted standards? There are several reasons to that.

Interface Usability - the Principles

Posted October 16th, 2007 by IrinaP
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Interface usability is a very important factor for both a standalone application and a dynamic website. If the application provides useful and sophisticated functionality, but the users can't figure out how to use it, this application will never be popular.

Among the basic usability principles, the following are most often cited by usability experts: simplicity, consistency, understandable language, accessibility and good means of control of the current status.  

Java versus PHP

Posted October 3rd, 2007 by Vladimir
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Let’s cut to the chase: these are the reasons we moved away from PHP and focused on Java, as we developed more complex applications:

1.PHP is an interpreted language (the same is true of Python and Ruby, incidentally), Java is a compiled one. The nature of Java allows us to find many of the errors at an early stage, which makes an application more stable. Some simple errors in PHP code can be found only during application testing or even after release.

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