By Web Design Services Team on Feb 14, 2007 in Accessibility, Frequently Asked Questions, Software, Technology, Web Design | Comments Off
What is Javascript? Firstly, Javascript has little in common with Java, which is a full-scale programming language. Javascript is a scripting language, mainly used to add functionality to web pages, through actions performed on the user’s computer (client-side) Javascript can carry out actions that aren’t possible using standard HTML. These actions include opening pop-up [...]
By Web Design Services Team on Feb 10, 2007 in Frequently Asked Questions, Technology | Comments Off
Who sets the standards for HTML? The W3 (World Wide Web Consortium). The consortium was created 1994, to achieve agreement on core principles and components of the web standards.
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By Web Design Services Team on Feb 9, 2007 in General, Web Design | 1 Comment
If you are interested you can see the development of the new Compuskills home page taking place over on the web design testbed.
The estimated “Go Live” date for this new overhaul is 00:01hrs 17 Feb 07. Most of the changes have taken place at the back end, with more and more the content being CMS [...]
By Web Design Services Team on Feb 7, 2007 in Software, Web Design | 2 Comments
We have been fortunate enough to have been given a copy of MS Expression Web design software for a trial basis. The intention is to create some of our personal sites using this tool and see how it compares against the likes of Dreamweaver, NVU (which has been blogged about by staff in the past) [...]
By Web Design Services Team on Feb 4, 2007 in Software, Web Design | 1 Comment
The Extended Live Archive is an excellent wordpress plugin that lets you automatically create an AJAX powered archive page for your WordPress blogs. We have currently set it up on a blog for you to see it at work here.
It does suffer from one massive problem though. It wont work in anything except IE 7.
This [...]
By Web Design Services Team on Feb 3, 2007 in Frequently Asked Questions, Technology | Comments Off
Should I use Web 2.0 technologies and techniques?
As always, the answer depends on what your web site does.
If it’s a hobby site, it’s up to you how far you want to enhance the user’s experience.
If it’s an educational or cultural site, experimental sites are always welcome, even expected. However, you will probably have [...]
By Web Design Services Team on Feb 2, 2007 in Frequently Asked Questions, General | 1 Comment
On the heels of the previous list we have added the following IPs to the blacklist:
61.55.135.167
209.67.219.74
72.21.42.139
66.90.101.223
66.63.170.194
66.90.103.243
62.212.81.166
208.113.151.29
69.16.212.134
64.27.0.166
72.232.65.154
72.232.207.26
82.138.6.154
69.30.192.191
64.72.127.155
205.196.208.26
As you can see, there has been a bit of an increase in the volume of spam comment messages trying to get themselves posted. Such is life.
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By Web Design Services Team on Feb 2, 2007 in Frequently Asked Questions, Technology | Comments Off
Why use a style sheet? In the past, formatting instructions were embedded in HTML. So a block of text to be shown in 16 point red Times Roman ended up being surrounded by the tags <FONT FACE=”Times”> <FONT COLOR=”red” > <FONT SIZE=”16pt”> (before the text) and </FONT></FONT></FONT> (after it). This takes a lot [...]
