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| What
is web designing? |
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| The
creative effort to produce the best pigmented
images, in order to make the web site quite
appealing to retain the present loyal visitors
and invite in the new. |
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| What
tools do we use to design a web page ? |
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There
are many tools in the market that can be used to
create a web site. We prefer to use Frontpage
and Visual Interdev and plain notepad.
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| What
are some of the things to keep in mind when
designing an web site ? |
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There
are numerous things to keep in mind when
designing a good website. For instance, after
your site is on the web, you do realize that it
is viewed by people using different browsers
types (MSIE or Netscape), different browser
versions (MSIE 3 or MSIE 5), different screen or
monitor sizes and different types of computers
(e.g. Macintosh or IBM compatible). If
considerations to these aspects are not made
while designing, the site will look different in
each case.
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| What's
a web application? How does it differ from a web
site? |
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More
technically, a web application is a program that
runs on the web. It's typically interactive; the
application accepts input from the web user,
processes the input, and displays the results.
A
web site can contain a web application, but
often it's just for display. A page like this
FAQ, which displays information to the reader,
is part of a web site but it's not a web
application. Web applications typically have a
multitier architecture and use technologies such
as ASP, XML, and database connectivity to
perform the data processing.
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| What
graphic tools do we use ? |
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Our
graphic designers use Adobe's Photoshop,
Illustrator, Net Studio, Microsoft Gif Animator,
JASC Paint Shop Pro and 3D Studio max and Flash
among the many graphic software at our disposal.
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| What
is JavaScript ? |
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| JavaScript
is a platform-independent, event-driven,
interpreted programming language developed by
Netscape Communications Corp. and Sun
Microsystems. Originally called LiveScript (and
still called LiveWireTM by Netscape in its
compiled, server-side incarnation), JavaScript
is affiliated with Sun's object-oriented
programming language JavaTM primarily as a
marketing convenience. They inter-operate well
but are technically, functionally and
behaviorally very different. |
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| What
is CSS ? |
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| CSS
stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a
simple styling language which allows attaching
style to HTML elements. Every element type as
well as every occurence of a specific element
within that type can be declared an unique
style, e.g. margins, positioning, color or size. |
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| What
is cache? |
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Caches
come in many types, but they all work the same
way: they store information where you can get to
it fast. A Web browser cache stores the pages,
graphics, sounds, and URLs of online places you
visit on your hard drive; that way, when you go
back to the page, everything doesn't have to be
downloaded all over again. Since disk access is
much faster than Internet access, this speeds
things up. Of course, disk access is slower than
RAM access, so there's also disk caching, which
stores information you might need from your hard
disk in faster RAM.
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| What
about automatic document conversion tools? |
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We
often use automatic tools to convert books and
sets of documents to HTML. The trick is to use
tools that convert the documents smoothly and
that produce clean, robust HTML code. Otherwise,
it may take more time to fix the HTML than to
recreate it from scratch.
We
sometimes use commercial conversion tools for
this purpose, but we also create proprietary
tools to perform specific conversions that we
need. For example, we created a super-efficient
HTML converter for Word documents. It produces
perfect HTML, but sorry, it's not for sale. It
was designed to work only on the style features
that we use in our own documents, and it doesn't
work at all in the latest release of Word. But
watch our home page—we're working on a new
version |
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