Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Slice Select Tool of Photoshop: Slicing an image to one’s own whim and discretion

The slice select tool is one of the most powerful tools of Photoshop in the hands of graphic designers as it gives them freedom and power to divide a large picture into numerous smaller pieces, similar to a jigsaw puzzle pieces. Though cut, these pieces still remain intact as a part of the big picture, which can later on be assembled in a flawless manner. Above all, each part can be manipulated for graphic designing, as well as, creating hotspots, to suit the requirement and discretion of the experts.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Flash Website Designing: Getting Popular

Flash is a platform that provides a very lucid and effective impact on viewers or users' minds. This powerful medium of communication is now used in a very broad way. Creating quality virtual products are just so simple through Flash. People trust on Flash website design, as a website that is made on Flash is superbly sophisticated and can convey the message in a much simpler way then a bulk of text can. Keeping it simple and effective is the main motto of Flash.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Find Basic Errors In Your CSS Code With CSS Lint

CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency. The rules are all pluggable, so you can easily write your own or omit ones you don't want.
Ever spend days writing the best CSS code in the world only to discover that something isn't rendering quite right? What's worse is that after spending a tedious and somewhat frustrating time trying to find out what's wrong, you discover it was just a basic syntax error and that's when you might want to kick yourself.CSS Lint is a web app that performs a basic check on your CSS code.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Use of Fantastico in cPanel

When you have a hosting package then you would be find a option of Fantastico  in your cPanel. So what exactly is Fantastico? Fantastico is a script which will automates the installation process of web applications to your site. Infact one of the main reason for the cPanel success is that it has Fantastico options which makes your job lot more easier.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Why to Choose Magento for your online store?

Magento is an open source ecommerce platform which offers long range of features to the users. Today every merchant wants to migrate his/her online store to Magento. Magento offers many options along with one page checkout. The Magento drop-down menus for prices, product and color gives an opportunity to potential customers to save their time and choosing the right products. You do not have to wonder from side to side to find these details.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Using Best Web Development tool For Web Development Services

Though a broad term web development can be reduced to a lucid definition which tells that it involves developing a web site for the Internet wherein works such as web design, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, web content development, client liaison, and e-commerce development, etc. are the fundamental. A major differentiator between web development and web design is that the earlier does not contain any web designing aspects. Web development tools play crucial role in the entire process of web development small or big in size.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Why CSS is good for Google?

Stylesheets cascading (CSS) are used to separate the stylistic elements of a page such as provision of fonts and color page content such as paragraphs and images. Stylesheets cascading (CSS) provide the presentation layer to a web page. Using CSS, Web designers can control the presentation of the display of a site from a central document.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Content Management System (CMS) – An Overview

Why CMS?

Content plays an important role in determining any website's popularity, that's why it is known as "King of the web". So it is very important for us to keep our website updated with the latest happenings of the company. Everyone is nowadays struggling to keep their websites up-to-date. Gone are the days when static websites were used. As more people are becoming familiar with internet, it has become very essential for us to revise our websites around the clock. To design the content for the website, we need to employ website designers and for further modification also we need to rely on them. As human-being always have some limitations. So it is not a good idea to rely on human being for something which can be easily done with the help of software (CMS).

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Macromedia Dreamweaver Vs Microsoft FrontPage

This leads to the often heated and delicate debate, ‘Which is the best editor?’ Fortunately this article informs you of the pros and cons of both and as to the level of experience that is required. At this stage, I would like to make it clear that I am not an advocate for Microsoft or Macromedia and have substantial experience of using both web editors.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The why and how of HTML and CSS validation

The HTML and CSS validation, like many other things, have got two folds of people: one fold which realizes the underlying advantages of this proposition and other which does receive the notion but with their set of reservations. Thus, to some people taking recourse to HTML and CSS validation is some kind of a debatable issue while others are sufficiently convinced why the same is more than worth the hassle.

How to Use CSS for Search Engine Optimization

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language that permits Web designers to attach styles such as spacing, color, font, etc. to HTML documents. Cascading style sheets are similar to a template, permitting Web developers to label styles for an HTML element and then apply it to the number of Web pages required. Thus, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are collections of formatting rules, which control the appearance of content in a Web page. With CSS styles you have great flexibility and control of the exact page appearance; from precise positioning of the layout to specific fonts and styles.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Web Designers: An Essentiality by: Joanna Gadel

No one can argue that the Internet has taken the world by storm and with companies waking up to the need of having a website to promote their product/services the web industry has witnessed a meteoric rise in job opportunities. All business owners are looking to go virtual need to come to terms with the reality that, the Internet is swarming with ideas and originality in content is not too easy to come by.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Typography in Web Design

A very important but often underplayed element in website design is web typography.  Typography itself is as old as the earliest writing systems and has since developed into a very specialised field.
Typography originated after the invention of printing from movable type in the mid 15th century and has come along way since then. Today we find a large number of typefaces on the web.
How you approach typeface in your design, will either enhance or diminish the visual impact of your website. Function and aesthetics are intrinsic in web design and how well your design works is just as important as how it looks.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Learn some basics about Ruby on Rails Programming Language by: Alisha North

Ruby on Rails is deemed today as a momentous revolution in the computer programming language. Quite many people are not aware of the cat that ROR is the short form of Ruby on Rails. Considered as the lightening fast programming language available today, it is highly useful to learn the basic facts about this software.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Emerged Technologies - ASP NET, Java And PHP Application Development by: Harkirat Singh Bedi

With newer technologies emerging into the market at regular intervals, you can witness the growth of a large number of software development corporations in every nook and corner of the globe. In this article, we will throw some light on the processes of ASP Net Application Development, Java Application Development and PHP Application Development. Let us start with ASP Dot Net Application Development.

Simple Guidelines On How To Build A Website For Children by: Tem Balanco

Nowadays, more and more children are becoming computer literate. Thanks to the introduction of the Internet and the accessibility of differing children's website, kids are now learning a lot of things at a very young age. If you are a parent and you would like to reinforce your kids' literacy about computers, or maybe you would like to manage the websites that your children frequently visit, why not just build a website that they can use and maintain? This activity can be a good bonding time for you and your kids as they can help you in setting up the website when it comes to the contents.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Google Sitemaps by: Michael Roberts

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Google Sitemaps are XML files that list the URLs available on a site. The aim is to help site owners notify search engines about the URLs on a website that are available for indexing.

Webmasters can include information about each URL, such as when it was last updated and its importance in the context of the site.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Using Wireframes for PA Web Design Projects by: Sue McCrossin

Wireframes make up an important part of every web design project, whether they are pencil sketches or actual HTML prototypes because the whole idea behind the wireframe is that the team invests a bit of time upfront to avoid costly mistakes after development. Designers use wireframes to communicate ideas to clients in a simple and quick manner, and they can also be used to run data and process flows past programmers. They are essential to the process because they save time in programming and make the whole process of web design faster and cheaper.

JQuery Ajax Development by: Nickseo

Released in January 2006, jQuery is a cross browser compatible fast and concise JavaScript library which makes it easy and shortens various development process such as animations, communications with server, transferring of documents and handling of event. In fact, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use these days. On the other hand Ajax is a web application framework which helps to create web applications. jQuery is capable to integrate Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Together jQuery and Ajax are compiled with many features; as a result currently Ajax jQuery development is one of the highest demanding needs of the market.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Create Impressive Website Design with CSS3 by: Ricky Fill

Getting creative with CSS3

CSS3 is used in organizing the style and layout of Web pages. It is the latest standard in the CSS series. CSS3 offers a wide variety of new trends to make an impact with your web designs. With many exciting new functions and features, CSS can be used as a powerful tool in website designing and development. A CSS3 refers to the technical stipulation of a layout. It ensures that a web page will appear precisely the way the website developer has specified.